New Bake Off, tonight's the night.

I have watched last night's show this morning and laughed my head off at the fortune cookie challenge.
I think all the contestants seem good people but do wish fl o would sort her teeth out. They whistle like they are too big for her mouth.

We've just watched the whole of The ITCrowd.. Very funny. It's the only thing I have seen Noel in.

I don't like Pru, I quite enjoy Sandi and Noel but I think they're trying too hard, they need to relax

How is Stacey surviving? She must have a charmed life!

'I am a big fan of Noel Fielding and I thought he was wonderful. (Discovered the Mighty Boosh years ago and loved it.) He is without ego and gently silly. Must admit I did not like Mel and Sue (they were so irritating!) and the pairing of Sandi and Noel as much better. I find Sandi very warm, her intellect is beyond question and she is lovely with people. What a surprising but good pairing. They work well together.

I have to say I didn't like the sainted Mary Berry either and much prefer Prue Leith's more direct and less fussy delivery. (I didn't like the BBC's Bake Off team at all. confused ) Paul Hollywood was ok in this - minimal smarm from him, so all in all, I thought it was a great start.

The old Bake Off won't be missed at all, imo.'
...wot she said! agree with everything you said, Day 6. Was glued to the screen tonight watching it [although it seemed so unfair having people cook pastry in that sort of heat..also bothered me that the nice lady who sadly got eliminated kept running her hands through her hair whilst cooking;I assume she was washing her hands as well but they didn't show that]. I was also thinking that, apart from the cooking aspect, do the judges take into account someone having the sort of personality that can take their win forward.

I suppose it was at least a level playing field as they all had to battle with the heat. I was very impressed by their efforts with the sfogliatelle, I've often thought of having a go but discretion has stepped in and I've bought them from our local Italian cafe instead!

I do like Sandi and Noel, I even find all their silly little jokes much funnier than anything Mel and Sue did.

re the IT Crowd; I didn't use the computer for several weeks and when I did it didn't work. Of course, I phoned TalkTalk who told me to 'turn it off and turn it back on again'. Which made me chuckle as it's something I do/say all the time since watching the series [but I hadn't turned it off at the switches for fear of nothing working at all]. Of course, I did so and it worked.

Watched little bits no big (can’t bear to miss it type fan) but I like Prue Leith but feel Noel comes across very luke warm nothing to him, very insipid and Sandi doesn’t impress although I think she’s funny in some programmes

The hygiene on that programme scares me. We see a number of clips of contestants running their hands through their hair, long hair swishing over the work top and tasting with fingers or double dipping spoons. I expect you will tell me off now for being too picky

No [I think I said something similar yesterday, about the nice lady who was eliminated but kept running her hands through her hair]. And the one who cut her finger should have had her hair tied back. She's lucky that she got her finger in the fan and not her hair .