"Escape to the Country" (TV programme)

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Annoying.

Need I say more?

I like it when the guy with the scarf and dimples presents it.

I too would like to know if anyone ever buys one of the houses presented to them. Its really frustrating the way the programme always leaves us hanging in the air on this.

to buy or not to buy* I am not sure id want to buy a boy

I quite like it. But I only half watch it if I have it on.

I wonder if they go on it because Estate agents are fed up of their fussiness and refuse to let them look at their hundredth house that week, ?

I love it.

I love it when they start whinging about not liking the carpets of wallpaper. DH usually ends up yelling 'you do know that you can change it, don't you, you idiots?!'.

I do hate the smuggery of some folk though. Here's Jessica and Hugh Huffington-Puffington-Smythe, with children Gertie, Bertie and Flerty, and dogs Phil and Dill. They want 15 bedrooms (all ensuite) a £80k fitted kitchen, and space for the childrens po-neees.

Jessica is a mumtrapreneur (unspecified but probably makes cupcakes or is a blogger) and needs a large office for her ego. Hugh works in the City, and wants a cinema room, walk in humidor and cellar for his wine collection.

I like it when the guy with the scarf and dimples presents it.

Alastair? He's lovely!

My fave was a couple where the woman kept saying she liked the house but it had a table in the kitchen and that had 'thrown her'. Alastair pointed out she could move the table so then she said it was just she'd never seen a house with the table in the kitchen before. In the summing up she said that she's been quite taken aback by the table in the kitchen, but having thought about it, she could alway move it.

How does someone so thick amass that sort of wealth? And how do the presenters refrain from slapping them?

frontpaw

Not that I'm jealous or anything...

Alastair is a nice chap.

But I think Aled Jones presents it now!

I remember one programme where the husband was adamant that he wanted a house with three ponds in the garden. They found him a house that ticked all of the other boxes and had two ponds in the garden. No, that was no good, he wanted 3 ponds.

Love it. I am nosey by nature so love looking at the houses and love how fussy some people are. I remember one episode where the woman wanted an upstairs laundry room so she didn't have to keep walking up and downstairs with baskets of laundry. Needless to say, they struggled to meet this requirement and she got more cats-bum-mouth by the minute. You could tell the presenter just wanted to turn round and tell her not to be so lazy!!! They were turning down houses that they liked everything else about just because of this one missing feature. Husband looked pissed off by the end as well!!

Why do they always want lots of land? Why do they suddenly want to grow their own veg, keep ponies and alpaca's and chickens? It must have 8 acres at least from people who have lived in an estate in Birmingham with a tiny back yard.

They always want a paddock for the horses.

Or, they want to be rural, so get shown a house that is rural, down a country lane with neighbours that are miles away and they complain that it is too rural! Rural is rural you morons!

I love it except when Denise Nurse is presenting.She says "hair" instead of "here" and it drives me insane.

AND they alway want a character cottage but hate beams. Knobbers.

Nikki whatsit sometimes presents it, she also days the one in Australia.

*does

Well beams are terrbile detrimental to one's feng shui.

Although probably quite helpful in keeping one's ceiling up.

Originally it was a very slim, posh voiced woman.

I'm convinced that Jules Hudson is sponsored by Crew Clothing. He doesn't ever wear anything else.

One of my DDs met a couple who had been on the show. She thought they looked vaguely familiar but couldnt remember where she had seen them before.
The couple admitted that they had gone on the show to be on TV. They had not actually wanted to "escape to the country".