Escape to the Chateau

Loved those cake stands! What a great way of using old plates. The van du vin worked brilliantly. I did like her trying to help Dick reverse it and him getting out and saying "Don't speak to me!!!" sounded just like me and DH

We are totally addicted to Dick & Angel and their delightful children and their exquisite chateau. That moat! The orangery!! Now the Walled Garden!!! We were a bit iffy about Angel at the beginning but she is so creative and we admire her enormously. Well, both of them, because it's a major undertaking - but what a gorgeous place they are renovating, no wonder they fell in love with it. Husband who normally doesn't get too involved with tv programmes has voiced the hope that the coverage is going to go on for years so we'll always have a Dick & Angel series to look forward to!

Shame it was the last one tonight. Loved the van du vin and Angel's cake stands.

Hope there is another series when the grandparents move into their stable conversion.

I thought the black and gold might be a step too far, but it looked lovely! Every time I watch them I have to go and move some of my furniture round!

Good programme for early Sunday evening. What a monumental task they've taken on but they both come across well, I admire Angel's creativity and cheerfulness, Dick's clearly talented in what he can turn his hand to, not keen on the face fungus though Sweet little children who will have the advantage of growing up bi lingual.

I loved 'It's Not Easy Being Green' which Dick did with his first wife, Brigit and his son and daughter.

I read somewhere that Brigit found the media intrusion hard to deal with and so Dick did the second series - helping others with eco projects with his son James. They then did 'The Hungry Sailors' together.

I suppose having a film crew with you for so much time is the price you pay for making a TV show which pays for your project.

I notice Angel's parents don't seem to be around at the moment unless they're helping with child care away from the cameras.

It's a great programme and such a beautiful place.

I first saw Dick on TV many years ago on Scrapheap Challenge. He was very clever at making machines to perform certain challenges, using only (planted) stuff from the dump. It used to be one of my favourite programmes .
I have been saddened to see that his son seems to have no input into the Chateau, suspect there was a bad rift when Dick left his first marriage.

My DH cringed when Angel set about the wisteria with the secateurs. "She's cutting off the new growth" he said. I agree about the boudoir, the black glossy tiles and gold grout looked fantastic.

How delightful the children are, especially the little boy when he saw the tractor, 'it's Red' Bless him!!!!

Very true!!

Ah but did you clock the size of those steaks?

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!

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

Angel really is clever.

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

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?

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

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.

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

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.

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!

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.

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 ?

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!!

Enjoy

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