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Lord_Azrael

It's not easy being green - new series

I was just reading the latest edition of Country Smallholder magazine and found out that the next series of 'It's not easy being green' is supposed to be on.  After some detective work with the new Radio Times, I've found it starts on Wed 7th Jan on BBC2.
lachlanandmarcus

ooo goodie something to watch. And the prog about the victorian farm (by the peeps who did the fab tales from the green valley) is supposed to be on about feb too!
IainC

Quick reminder... it's almost on now... BBC2.
wildgarlic

Missed it... oh well. Was it worth watching?
IainC

I quite enjoyed it actually... would imagine it'll probably be on iPlayer actually.
IainC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...y_Being_Green_Series_3_Episode_1/

Here it is
wildgarlic

Thank you
kimmie

i enjoyed it too....we also took the footprint test....2.59 planets!!! need to work harder me thinks!
Diana

You enjoyed it cos James got his kit off AGAIN! Come on, be honest!    
wildgarlic

Diana wrote:
You enjoyed it cos James got his kit off AGAIN! Come on, be honest!    


He did! What a floozie... where's that link again?
lachlanandmarcus

Gosh I hadnt discovered his delights until this evening, he did seem to relish the opportunity, floozie!
monkey nuts

Enjoyed it too...and the programe  
Just done my footprint, it was 2.13 planets.
lachlanandmarcus

I was 2.36 which was probably fair tho I thought it should allow you to say you use multiple fuels eg  oil and wood not have to choose, we use wood as much as poss but the base system backing up the wood is oil so I put oil.....
Diana

Just out of curiosity, has anyone tried to do it using the "right" answers? Bet it still says you need over 2 planets - i.e. no-one can feel smug cos we're all (well, there are exceptions) in this together.
kimmie

no ideal...we just answered truthfully...but the jewellery question stung us!! we dont normally buy jewellery, but for christmas we bought the mother in law a necklace and of course my ring!  would like to think it would of been lower otherwise
Lord_Azrael

So what's the verdict on this guys.  I'm a bit dissapointed with this new series in general, it is so 'bitty' and seems to really be aiming a lot towards the rich buggers who want to be 'eco-trendy' in many ways.

I enjoyed the first series as it was a bit more detailed on interesting projects and gave me a bit more inspiration.
IainC

Yeah, I think it's not quite as good as the first series, but it's better than the 2nd one. This one is definitely an improvement on the 2nd one. I guess it'd be hard to re-capture the first series though 'cos they've done all those things in their house already, hence the trying to do it again on other peoples houses.
Sassinak

I just object to the way they seem to have become all 'show bizzy' Everything seems to be done for effect for the camera even the jokes seem very rehearsed.
IainC

Sassinak wrote:
I just object to the way they seem to have become all 'show bizzy' Everything seems to be done for effect for the camera even the jokes seem very rehearsed.


Dick has always been that way ever since I seen him on Scrapheap challenge. I guess the rest of them have gone a bit that way though 'cos originally they wouldn't have known if the programme was going to work or not IYKWIM, whereas since then they've been on quite a few programmes. Theres been the 3 series of INEBG, then there was something else that Dick and his son were on as well (that had the ginger guy in it too IIRC).
kimmie

having not seen the first one...i think its not bad, but could do better...half an hour longer would help....less of the show bussiness bit and more of ways to help...but all in all its not awful.
Martin

I don't know whether they're showing the episodes later in Scotland - down here we've just had the fifth in the series...... I'm going to be the sole dissenting voice - in comparison to series one, which was excellent, this one is sorely lacking, if you're not into the junior Strawbridge without his shirt
(doesn't do it for me....) it is very "content light"........ and as for the bottle blond bimbette......
It just seems dreadfully disjointed - one week they plant a small garden for the London house, next week they ruin it digging a hole for a water tank - in the latest episode they spout on about geodesic dome greenhouses, and how hydroponics are so wonderful and "organic" (organic hydroponics is an oxymoron), spend ages making an obviously dreadfully designed geodesic greenhouse kit, fill it with hydroponic gear, and filmed several months later you get to see that it has been a spectacular failure (what did they expect in an unheated greenhouse in winter?......)
Lost the plot job........
Diana

Funny that, I liked the bit about the hydroponics - showed the dome wasn't perfects and not everything they touch turns to gold and explained why it failed. Personnally I think there should be more of that - i.e. the real reality - on TV.
IainC

Martin wrote:
I don't know whether they're showing the episodes later in Scotland - down here we've just had the fifth in the series...... I'm going to be the sole dissenting voice - in comparison to series one, which was excellent, this one is sorely lacking, if you're not into the junior Strawbridge without his shirt
(doesn't do it for me....) it is very "content light"........ and as for the bottle blond bimbette......
It just seems dreadfully disjointed - one week they plant a small garden for the London house, next week they ruin it digging a hole for a water tank - in the latest episode they spout on about geodesic dome greenhouses, and how hydroponics are so wonderful and "organic" (organic hydroponics is an oxymoron), spend ages making an obviously dreadfully designed geodesic greenhouse kit, fill it with hydroponic gear, and filmed several months later you get to see that it has been a spectacular failure (what did they expect in an unheated greenhouse in winter?......)
Lost the plot job........


Maybe I'm forgetting some of the series... we're definitely talking about the same series atm though.

Agree, it is disjointed a bit though, but as he said at the start of prog one, it's a "magazine" type show now. Which to me, sounded a bit like they were told what kind of programme they were going to make (ie less control compared to the first ones).

Also agree the topless jnr isn't to my taste too... quite like the blonde bimbo though... now if SHE was topless maybe they'd get higher viewing figures
Martin

Just out of interest, I followed the link from their site to the makers of the trendy greenhouse  - prices FROM £2,300!......
Lord_Azrael

IainC wrote:
... quite like the blonde bimbo though... now if SHE was topless maybe they'd get higher viewing figures


LOL  

And that greenhouse for £2300!! ouch!  After seeing the trouble they had with it and the bad instructions.  Let's face it, material wise it looked like about £50 worth of wood...

Yep, my verdict still stands....it's aimed for people with loads of money, but I still watch it for the occassional bit that I can possibly use, like the small section on bees I thought was interesting.  Not very 'in depth' I'll grant you, but I like bees.....
Martin

<rant alert........>
On the subject of "high maintenance bimbettes with bottle blonde hair"........
I will confess that I have an "eye for the ladies" - for a great many years I "got away with it" by saying truthfully when caught staring "I'm so sorry, I'm a photographer - it's your cheekbones........" Nothing gladdens my eye and quickens my heart more than an attractive woman...........
I was greatly gratified to find on my first visit to the Big Green Gathering about 4 years ago to find that I was surrounded by the most amazing collection of hog-whimperingly scrumptious ladies that I'd seen in years.......
- nearly all of them incredibly "low maintenance" - healthy complexions untainted by cosmetics, sparkling eyes, naturally tanned limbs, all gently set off with the "hippy look", often wearing home made or recycled clothes, not a high-heel in sight - and utterly edibly scrumptious........
So please, if we're going to have a programme about a more natural, eco-friendly life, let's have some REAL and natural women, perhaps sharing their beauty secrets.......
</rant over>
IainC

Martin wrote:
<rant alert........>
On the subject of "high maintenance bimbettes with bottle blonde hair"........
I will confess that I have an "eye for the ladies" - for a great many years I "got away with it" by saying truthfully when caught staring "I'm so sorry, I'm a photographer - it's your cheekbones........" Nothing gladdens my eye and quickens my heart more than an attractive woman...........
I was greatly gratified to find on my first visit to the Big Green Gathering about 4 years ago to find that I was surrounded by the most amazing collection of hog-whimperingly scrumptious ladies that I'd seen in years.......
- nearly all of them incredibly "low maintenance" - healthy complexions untainted by cosmetics, sparkling eyes, naturally tanned limbs, all gently set off with the "hippy look", often wearing home made or recycled clothes, not a high-heel in sight - and utterly edibly scrumptious........
So please, if we're going to have a programme about a more natural, eco-friendly life, let's have some REAL and natural women, perhaps sharing their beauty secrets.......
</rant over>


Now theres a rant I can agree with
Diana

Martin wrote:
<rant alert........>
On the subject of "high maintenance bimbettes with bottle blonde hair"........
I will confess that I have an "eye for the ladies" - for a great many years I "got away with it" by saying truthfully when caught staring "I'm so sorry, I'm a photographer - it's your cheekbones........" Nothing gladdens my eye and quickens my heart more than an attractive woman...........
I was greatly gratified to find on my first visit to the Big Green Gathering about 4 years ago to find that I was surrounded by the most amazing collection of hog-whimperingly scrumptious ladies that I'd seen in years.......
- nearly all of them incredibly "low maintenance" - healthy complexions untainted by cosmetics, sparkling eyes, naturally tanned limbs, all gently set off with the "hippy look", often wearing home made or recycled clothes, not a high-heel in sight - and utterly edibly scrumptious........
So please, if we're going to have a programme about a more natural, eco-friendly life, let's have some REAL and natural women, perhaps sharing their beauty secrets.......
</rant over>


Sounds just like me - not!
lor138

Diana wrote:
Martin wrote:
<rant alert........>
On the subject of "high maintenance bimbettes with bottle blonde hair"........
I will confess that I have an "eye for the ladies" - for a great many years I "got away with it" by saying truthfully when caught staring "I'm so sorry, I'm a photographer - it's your cheekbones........" Nothing gladdens my eye and quickens my heart more than an attractive woman...........
I was greatly gratified to find on my first visit to the Big Green Gathering about 4 years ago to find that I was surrounded by the most amazing collection of hog-whimperingly scrumptious ladies that I'd seen in years.......
- nearly all of them incredibly "low maintenance" - healthy complexions untainted by cosmetics, sparkling eyes, naturally tanned limbs, all gently set off with the "hippy look", often wearing home made or recycled clothes, not a high-heel in sight - and utterly edibly scrumptious........
So please, if we're going to have a programme about a more natural, eco-friendly life, let's have some REAL and natural women, perhaps sharing their beauty secrets.......
</rant over>


Sounds just like me - not!


Yup, me too!!!
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