Escape to the Chateau

Me too!!! love these quirky people and the wonderful life they are living.

Ooh! I must tell DD2. She loves it as well and we message each other while it's on.

I love it too, but must admit that I wonder what lurks in Dick's facial hair. Watching them kiss turns my stomach!

We'll be watching too

I love it, too. Both Dick and Angel are such great characters and both so eternally optimistic as well as ingenious. I admire the way Angel dresses and how she looks so 'cool' despite, or perhaps because of, being a larger lady. I do wonder if they can only afford to do up the chateau because of the money the TV prog are paying them. If so, good luck to them as it makes for good viewing.

Yipee, thanks TOW for reminding us. Our Radio Times was not delivered this week, have only just realised, so haven't been able to browse through the coming week. What Channel is it in please?

flo It's Channel 4 - 7pm Sunday

Thanks KatyK, I'll be able to set up the recorsing now.

Recording even

Enjoy

Even DH likes it and he normally hates any programmes about celebs and their and their so called 'lifestyle adventures'

Dick is an experienced engineer so there are no tearful, 'Oh, it's all a disaster' pieces to camera. I love the way he laughs off any problems and Angel's 'off the wall' ideas.

I just worry about those children and that moat!!

Again pure delight ! So much so that I watch it twice in a row .
I would love to live with them , what fun , what caos !
Although, one wee worry , I thought Angel was moving away from Dick's affectionate advances ? Maybe she doesn't like the mouser either , Shysal ?

We've just had a row of poplar trees pollarded. Five men with harnesses, visors, 'tree felling' signs, ear defenders, etc., etc., and our firewood is still in various heaps scattered all over the place - not in lovely neat piles beneath the trees.

Dick missed a trick though.....He should have hired a shredder to deal with the smaller branches which would have provided the bark mulch for his walled kitchen garden.

Love this programme. The children are delightful.

I wasn't sure when the first series started because he seemed to have left a perfectly nice wife and family and run off into a stereotype mid life crisis. However I've been completely won over by Angel's lovely ideas. She's just so clever!

Some years ago he made a different series of programmes about being self sufficient. He has an adult son who helped him - things such as generating electricity using the power of a stream running through the property.
He and his son also did a programme sailing around Uk and stopping off and cooking a meal.

Is that so, Welshwife? I didn't realise Dick is already a celeb. I think I'm disappointed now.

I think his first wife, Brigit, only appeared in the first series of 'It's Not Easy Being Green' where they renovated a farmhouse in Cornwall concentrating on eco-friendly self-sufficiency.

They divorced in 2012.

I'm warming to Angel. She is immensely talented, but if I had spent so much time designing and executing such way-out but amazing decorating when we were renovating, DH would have been nowhere as patient as Dick. My plan would have been to paint/paper as many rooms as possible to get the chateau habitable, then revisit each room as finances and time allowed.
Having said that.... there were parts of our house that still hadn't been done as I'd envisaged after 10 years.... and it was only a small farm house

It was nice to see the children attending their French school, they are cheerful kids who obviously embrace their mother's wacky decorating tastes!

Wasn't Dick a finalist in Celebrity Masterchef too?

Yes he was very good on Masterchef. He often appeared on Scrapheap Challenge and various military history programmes.

I wasn't expecting the boudoir - with all that black, to look so lovely.

Angel really is clever.

I can't understand why they are both so overweight with all the energy they expend. You'd think they'd be as thin as stick insects!

Ah but did you clock the size of those steaks?

Very true!!