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Kevin Mcleods escape to the wild

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RaaRaaNoiseyLittleLion · 05/07/2015 20:02

Anyone just watched it and gone grrrrrr!

The useless bloke on there is being patted on the back for being adventurous and living his dream with his doey eyed wife at his side and all I'm thinking is what a deadbeat dad!

For those who haven't seen it its about a couple who live in very rural Scandinavia and 'brave' the wilderness frontier with their huskies.

So basically he F'd off to another country leaving two kids in the uk so he could follow his dream. He skypes them twice a week and he and his wife bang on about how his kids are his world and how much he misses them! I'm sitting here thinking not enough to contribute to their upbringing or regularly see them though!

If I was Kevin I'd be asking questions about honouring your responsibilies and not putting your own dream first but then I guess I'll never be a tv presenter!!

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TealFanClub · 06/07/2015 13:57

but the kidnap= remember and they realised half way through who it was but had to make the kids not say

WOW the tension

Weebirdie · 06/07/2015 13:58

A couple of dissolved companies and a job from daddy?

Mhhmmmmm

Weebirdie · 06/07/2015 14:00

*but the kidnap= remember and they realised half way through who it was but had to make the kids not say

WOW the tension*

Im going to see if its on youtube. I can remember being very upset when I heard the bloke had died of Asthma.

And yes. The tension!!!!!!

colleysmill · 06/07/2015 14:02

I really enjoyed the show although I did suspect that there would be more to it!

In terms of "living the dream" all it made me think was "I'm glad I'm here and not there!"

TealFanClub · 06/07/2015 14:06

and she opened his coffin
larks

anon33 · 06/07/2015 14:06

A family home in Belgravia

The liar said they didn't even have any money left!

SquirrelledAway · 06/07/2015 14:12

Maybe he meant that they had spent all the money from selling the flat in Knightsbridge?

Weebirdie · 06/07/2015 14:15

A family home in Belgravia probably means his mum and dads house, the family home.

TealFanClub · 06/07/2015 14:15

his parents house isnt exactly his!

anon33 · 06/07/2015 14:18

Sorry I have picked that up wrongly, I thought it was his family home .

SquirrelledAway · 06/07/2015 14:19

Well, not yet anyway ...

TooExtraImmatureCheddar · 06/07/2015 14:45

Yy to wanker man abandoning his kids to go off and breed huskies in the snow. Nice. And what was with the way they walked Kevin to his hobbit house and they hadn't even bothered to light the fire for him in advance? V v inhospitable. I was also wondering where the camera crew were sleeping, and why if they had had such good jobs they had only got £2000 in cash.

Why on earth would you not want to have running water/electricity at a minimum, with a wind turbine and a pump from the river? Wtf was with Claire saying that she loved fetching her water by hand because going to the river was so relaxing - yes, because your house in the middle of nowhere with no one in it is so highly-pressured and stressful!

SquirrelledAway · 06/07/2015 14:48

I think they missed out a big chunk of his back story - like the 10 or so years he'd been running an outdoor company in Wales. I guess if all your assets are tied up in that then you might only have a small amount of cash available to start a new branch of the business.

anon33 · 06/07/2015 14:55

Too I was also thinking that! I get the impression that they are striving to be different. Going back to their hunter-gatherer roots. Their food seemed very unappealing. The minced moose that she pulled out of a plastic bag in the floorboards combined with tinned veg would have me on the first snowmobile plane back.

LikeABadSethRogenMovie · 06/07/2015 15:06

OMG! I remember that No Going Back programme. The bit where they announced he had died at the end was literally jaw dropping tv. DH and I were both screaming at the tv, "WTF?!!"

Back to the current show, the first couple who lived on that island, I thought she came across as deeply unhappy. She seemed very resigned to how her life had turned out. Although, I got all that from an off the cuff comment she made about crying through Christmas Grin

anon33 · 06/07/2015 15:11

I think I remember the No going Back program, was there a family who moved to Italy and the slugs ate her courgettes? Does anyone have a link?

lalalonglegs · 06/07/2015 16:09

I was thinking about the people who moved to Italy in No Going Back a few months ago because, iirc, he used to supplement their income by flying back to England to host gigs as a Jimmy Savile impersonator - I expect the bottom has fallen out of that market now.

The Nicaraguan island one was astonishing - the woman was unhinged. She seemed to be under the impression that they had an open relationship, he not so much. It was desperately sad that he died living out (what she thought) was her dream but seemed utterly miserable himself.

TealFanClub · 06/07/2015 16:11

NO WAY! there was money to be made going awaawawawawa ( thats a jimmy savile noise)

MrsBobDylan · 06/07/2015 18:09

Christ on a fucking bike, we've been had.

All the way through each programme I was thinking how much more interesting it would be if each couple were building a business there, rather than subsisting on bat shit and rubbish dumps. And lo, they were, of course doing that, while hiding the fact they are fucking loaded.

Brave my arse.

MinesaBottle · 06/07/2015 18:49

The Tonga one was a bitShock with bat guano collecting. Have they never heard of hantaviruses?!

Plus yeah, DH and I were both guessing the DCs would be off to NZ as soon as they were old enough to start getting bored and wanting to mix with other kids - lo and behold the eldest was packed off to boarding school!!

Also annoyed me how Kev was wanking on about the lack of civilization and humanity, as he sat on a fully loaded plane going to Tonga. And he said something about how he can't understand what's the point of such remote places - I'm sure the entire population of the Pacific would love hearing that Hmm; yes it's a long trip but I imagine a Tongan would feel the same about the trip to the UK!

As for the Sweden one - he needs to grow the fuck up. His kids mean so much to him that he's moved to the middle of nowhere in another country? Wonder how much child support he's paying. The wife seemed like she was just going along with it to some degree.

lalalonglegs · 06/07/2015 18:57

Teal - from what I remember, you needed a silly wig and a cigar too Smile

FrankietheSquealer · 06/07/2015 19:48

what happens when s2 of the tongans wants to go away too - then s3 is left all alonio

MabelBee · 06/07/2015 19:54

Ooh sorry people. Just came back to this and yes, that was an unfortunate autocorrect. I definitely am not living in a Tongan paradise or running any 5 star establishments!

ThatBloodyWoman · 08/07/2015 08:56

Of course there's a back story to all these things.I for one wasn't surprised,and definitely picked up on the money behind all these people that made their choices possible.
It doesn't alter my views on admiring their balls to go out there and do something different,though!

I really want to see that no going back thing now.

FrankietheSquealer · 08/07/2015 09:09

a long time poster on here was on a similar thing where she went to France with her family etc

but she didnt speak French and there were no jobs.