Page 5 | Does everyone have a decided view on Monty Don?.

Weirdconditionaltense · 2026-04-30T08:51:04+00:00

I remember not long after starting a job about 10 years ago my boss he was always a really really lovely man, for some reason we must have been talking about gardening, and he said he disliked Monty Don. I was shocked because for one thing that current boss was very laid back and didn't have any extreme views on anybody and secondly, because I have no extreme view on Monty Don. Just seen another thread where someone dislikes him. What is there to dislike about Monty Don? He's just a gardener isn't he? How can anyone have a strong view on him ?

ElderlyBabyDriver · Yesterday 10:15

One of many memorable work days was my boss in a business local to Longmeadow announcing loudly to the complete office that 'Monty cunting Don is at it again'
Monty had waded in about some dredging downstream which stopped the lower village flooding. The cunt, as he's known locally, is not particularly liked for his lack of thinking about others.

Screamingabdabz · Yesterday 10:36

ElderlyBabyDriver · Yesterday 10:15

One of many memorable work days was my boss in a business local to Longmeadow announcing loudly to the complete office that 'Monty cunting Don is at it again'
Monty had waded in about some dredging downstream which stopped the lower village flooding. The cunt, as he's known locally, is not particularly liked for his lack of thinking about others.

I’ve obviously never met him but that doesn’t surprise me. That undertone comes across underneath the mellifluous veneer. I can understand why people think he’s wonderful but I’ve met enough types like that to see through it.

AlbieJiggered · Yesterday 11:23

DuchessofStaffordshire · Yesterday 06:42

I like him. Unlike Alan Titchmarsh who I can't abide. I find him treacly and insincere.

Same here.
It's sort of sycophantic 'professional I'm nowt but a down-to-earth yorkshire lad' and it doesn't ring true.

BluebellCrocus · Yesterday 11:28

ElderlyBabyDriver · Yesterday 10:15

One of many memorable work days was my boss in a business local to Longmeadow announcing loudly to the complete office that 'Monty cunting Don is at it again'
Monty had waded in about some dredging downstream which stopped the lower village flooding. The cunt, as he's known locally, is not particularly liked for his lack of thinking about others.

He mentions Longmeadow flooding a lot on GW

AlbieJiggered · Yesterday 11:32

...I do like his style, understated. It reminds me a little of a late uncle who's work clothes were almost all Margaret Howell- well made, relaxed fit and he never ironed either.
Yes.

He has a very nice garden thanksto his many minions. He has nice dogs too
My thoughts too.
I don't watch GW (I don't watch BBC but I sometimes read the GW magazine.) or have anything against him but I don't consider him a gardener. I sometimes read the GW magazine.

I get strangely annoyed by people using the term chef for tv cooks.

Mary Berry has been around for a very long time and was a respected cook decades ago. I don't think I've seen her on tv since the mid-1990s. We were in a bookshop when a friend who emigrated said about a cookbook 'She looks younger than she did in the 1980s'.

BluebellCrocus · Today 12:09

ElderlyBabyDriver · Yesterday 10:15

One of many memorable work days was my boss in a business local to Longmeadow announcing loudly to the complete office that 'Monty cunting Don is at it again'
Monty had waded in about some dredging downstream which stopped the lower village flooding. The cunt, as he's known locally, is not particularly liked for his lack of thinking about others.

I wonder if the dredging was diverting the flooding to Longmeadow as he mentions getting flooded a lot.

BluebellCrocus · Today 12:37

I wonder what Monty Don's peach/pink tulips were at the beginning of GW. So beautiful against the blue flowers