Location location location/and or other U.K. property programmes...secrets

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Sorry if there’s already a thread been reading the CDWM thread with interest...but would to know any secrets about locationx3
I would love to have a budget big enough to go on it one day but they all seem to have 500k at the age of 21 these days 🤔
Any secrets kirsty and Phil seem lovely I hope they are as nice in RL

We always have a chuckle about GD, whenever we watch Kevin always seems to sit in the brand new bath tub looking over yonder hills / view. The glass bathtub episode had me panicking though, I'd never want a view of DHs arse pressed against that. Too far. HUTH is my guilty pleasure while wfh, bloody love it.

I went on LLL

People often ask me if they do your make up - they don't.

Phil was lovely and just like he is on camera. I didn't like kirstie. Off camera she mainly boasted about her life or made horrible comments about the peoples houses we were in.

I was a ftb - my deposit came from hard work and saving for just under ten years not inheritance like a poster in this thread assumed.

Didn't end up buying property as sellers didn't accept offer.

Research team are the ones who do all the work and were genuinely made up I liked the final property they had found me as they thought it was just what I was after ( it was which was a shame but I found my house not log after)

Crew are lovely.

ettc cracks me up-its either "toogrand" for them when thneyve askd to look at statly bloody homes or the gardens too small and thers no small holdings but they only want to spend a fiver

Grand Designs: invariably one whole side of the house is all glass, with a combined massive kitchen, diner, sitting room with furniture minimal that looks marooned an entirely uncomfortable.

Place in the sun: people go off into fits of ecstasy when they see a feckin barbecue in the garden, like you couldn't get one yourself. And the people who want to 'integrate into the local community and learn Spanish', but want to buy a house miles from anywhere or smack bang in the middle of urbanisation jam packed full of Brit expats.

This thread is very entertaining! I love watching Location Location Location and enjoy watching Phil and Kirstie on TV, but am very aware that their politics are very different from mine. They are both Tories - the Guardian really annoyed me before the 2015 election by publishing an article about well known people who were swing voters, with Kirstie Allsopp pretending she'd considered voting Labour but concluding she would vote Conservative - totally absurd.

How do I get separate paragraphs within the same post?

elkiedee There's something amiss with the site at present - most of us cannot return for new paragraphs. Pain in the arse.

Went off Phil after he was really snobby with a poor widowed Geordie bloke, on his other show.

I bloody love Kirsty & Phil 😍

They always want a big kitchen, they always apparently spend most of their time in the kitchen, don’t these people veg out on the sofa watching tv? Dave and Vanessa have shown a passing interest in crafts so Kirsty often drags them to a local blacksmith who shows them how to make a horse show cos that’s what you do in the country! They always want a large area to entertain even though they are moving 200 miles from friends and family. Are they that amazing they’ll make 30 friends in the local village within 6 months or are they actually using the term “entertain” as a euphemism and will actually be joining the local swingers group???

Has anyone on GD ever actually been ‘in by Christmas’?

The ultimate is Melanie Actor's show "Making Space" on channel 4. She just says exactly what she thinks with no filter!

Cantor even not Actor, ruddy phone.

VickieEadie, thanks, so it's not just me. I usually put in lots of paragraph breaks with no trouble, and I noticed that some people can still do so.

Love Phil and his "Kirstles" but this programme, whilst addictive, is so forumulaic. You nearly always have a young professional couple after a "character property". DH and I always roll our eyes at the "oooh look at the fireplace!", "wow, a wood burner!" and " ah, look at the beams!" comments! It's rarely Darren and Leanne from Bexley looking for a "new build"!

Deadbudgie, spending loads of time in the kitchen doesn't necessarily mean that you're not vegging out. In my family's home from when I was 10, and the one my mum moved to after she remarried, and her sisters' houses, and my cousin's house, there's far more hanging out in the kitchen than in the sitting room. My mum's parents had a separate dining room next to the kitchen in the basement, and they had the TV in there not in the ground floor sitting room. My family has included a lot of academics and a writer/publisher so a lot of our homes have also included a study. I will never have an eat and hang out in type kitchen in this house, it's too small, but since we had a loft extension and DS1 and DS2 now have bedrooms there, I have dreams of turning their very small old bedroom, previously and now again a junk/storage room, into a mini study with a computer table and as many bookshelves as can be fitted in, that could possibly be used by others for homework etc if we get round to it before they leave school (kids in year 7 and 5).

A few have posted saying that they hope those of us “slagging off Phil” for discovering that he has been glorying in killing animals when there is no need, are vegetarian/vegan. I am. I think he is a tosser for doing so.

Even as a vegetarian I will always have a soft spot for Kirstie and Phil as I went into labour with my first baby while watching LLL

Buxton www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3323275-come-dine-with-me-secrets

I love LLL and not until this thread did I know that about Phil. 🤔a little research has confirmed it. Always preferred Kirsty who always seems ‘the brains’ or more talented of the two. If I carried on watching he wouldn’t be the only tosser I watch regularly on tv I guess. 😬

We just saw last week’s episode as we live in Bromley. The budget would get them what they wanted in a lot of areas, so Phil’s “I don’t know what to show them”was a bit “really?” Pretty sure that couple were VERY specific about which roads they were willing to live on, which may have made it harder.

ISendNoComplimentsToYourMotherWas it down south by any chance & hosted by a flamboyant presenter!? If so I may know your neighbour!

Love love love K&P. I often wonder what Phil really thinks when he takes people around £250k 70s semis in Dartford, given he lived in a gaff worth about 12 times that in SW London up until a couple of years ago.

I've enjoyed seeing lots of familiar places on LLL recently - the town I was born in, the village I grew up in, and then across the road from where I had my DC on. The village I moved to was on LIOLI not long ago too. It's renewed my interest but I often feel like they're missing some good streets or houses for their searches. I really noticed it when a couple wanted to find somewhere local and then went looking what is actually quite far away for their school child to still get to school and friends. Maybe I just have a different idea about what is local, or maybe P&K don't have the local knowledge required for these searches. I think the owners made a wise choice deciding to Love it for a few years till they could move away from the school in that case.