To want to be an ITV/BBC drama kind of Mum?

[SaveTheChiddlers]

You know the kind!

Well educated, big beautiful house, looks expensively put together but in a very effortless kind of way. Usually returns home from work to their very good looking husband making an elaborate dinner in their fabulous kitchen. With a tea towel over his shoulder or apron on. Loads of cool art and furniture in the house. At some point will probably host some sort of bbq/garden party in their enormous garden where everyone will be holding enormous glasses of wine and touching none of the fabulous food.

I'd quite like to be one of these, do they even exist in real life?! Obviously without my husbands affair being exposed at said bbq or any actual drama...

With a fantastic coat collection

Talking about Dr Foster, I always think of the 'dinner scene' with Suranne Jones, now that was good!
Loved the house, wouldn't want to be part of the drama.

the coats always astounds me! Who in real life has a full wardrobe just of thirty coats or more for every occasion! And always either beautifully cut and classic or edgy and interesting but never Primark and denim.

question ages ago about compression shorts, short, tight black running shorts with specific panels that compress areas to aid with recovery and stuff. Basically black gym shorts but uglier.

You hardly see anyone putting the kettle on and making a cup of tea or coffee in TV dramas any more apart from at breakfast time. It’s all wine, wine, wine.

And knitwear collection, his and hers!

Now Im thinking of Sienna Miller in Anatomy of a Scandal although that was Netflix... what a wardrobe. But again, arse of a husband 🤣

LovedBridget J house!

Omg this thread and all the replies have given me life 🤣🤣🤣 I don't feel so bad about my complete sh*tshow of a house now 🤣

I used to think that England was like EastEnders where everyone knew each other , lived in a square area and hung out in the pub together . Did think the houses were really small though.
Or Brideshead Revisited type of place . Didn't really think about in-between .

I recently watched The Serial Killer's Wife. Just couldn't stop looking at the house! Who cares about the drama, the house is amazing!

matching designer furniture not hand me downs from parents/charity shops/house clearance of long gone relatives that you have never replaced
sofas that do not look like they are for sitting on or comfortable to most people just see to stand or perch on high stalls at the island unit
lovely designer dogs and cats but no poohs in the garden or a stinking cat tray in the corner
no old baggy granny drawers drying on the radiators as the tumble drier has conked out again
no kids running feral round the house and garden screaming blue murder
no piles of toys esp in the kids rooms all tidily tucked away in colour co-ordinated shelves nicely made beds with cushions and no creases curtains tucked back

I quite fancied Bridget's house in the last B Jones film!

The TV drama houses are a bit too perfect for my liking (though I wouldn't say no 🤣)

My sister and I recently had a binge watch of cheesy hallmark Christmas movies. All the houses are enormous and immaculate. The Christmas Decorations are co-ordinated to perfection, the trees are enormous and always needs a ladder to put the star on. There's absolutely no other indication anyone lives in the house, either. No non-Christmas pictures or ornaments, no books, nothing.

Even when somebody is cooking Christmas dinner, the kitchen looks immaculate. We hosted last year, and whilst the cooking was going on, or kitchen looked a bomb site, despite cleaning as we went as much as possible. When you see that husband with a towel on his shoulder stirring, where are the spice jars he's just used, the onion peelings, the chopping knife, etc?

Oh, how lovely, look, Grandma's making festive cookie with the kids. So, where's the flour everywhere, apart from the cutesy smudge on the beautifully dressed little girl's nose?

The hallmark Christmas films are hysterical arnt they. The women turn up to the back wards town from the city with one small case , yet manage to change into a range of beautiful coats that look heavy and bulky and boots and the places are immaculately turned out with the matching decorations and huge tree. She falls in love with the grumpy ( but hot ) single or widowed man and bakes him some cookies and cakes and despite a few glitches and misunderstandings, they finally get together along with his cute children and she decides that city living is overrated.

I remember watching Wycliffe and there was an enormous kitchen table that was basically a slice of tree, I shouted "I want that table!"

They do exist! The PTFA mummies in my village are JUST like that. Sadly I’m not one of them….

Funny you should mention that. I was reading an article recently where it noted that one of the problems with EastEnders is that these days it's not realistic to have ordinary working folk living in single-occupancy houses in a London square. A house like that in that location these days would set you back a million, easily.
I remember the early days of that show when they made it part of the storyline that the 'yuppies' were buying up the houses, which reflected the times. Today there's no way you'll get anyone whose only income is working in the launderette living somewhere like that.

It did always fascinate me that nobody seemed to have a washing machine, though...

Yes, and the grumpy but hot man is usually some sort of manual worker, but somehow manages to always look incredibly clean even if he's just supposedly mucked out the stables or hauled logs or whatever. He touches her face with hands that look like the only work they've done is modelling for hand creams. No dirt under the fingernails.

They go on a horse ride through the forest and her hair looks like she's just come out of the salon at the end, not like it's been blown about or shoved under a Stetson.

Yep, the hot guy in the films always looks like his stepped out of the shower and used a lot of potions.
The woman is also glamorous too, no red nose ( unless it looks cute) or hair out of place despite the designer wool hat. The snow is clearly from a machine and if there is an older person around they are wise and wonderful and have rosy cheeks and pushes them together , not very subtly either ( or the kids do and that’s even more cringy. )

This post is so good and funny , it’s cheered my Monday up no end.
As a result of this I decided to watch BBC The guest . OMG house is to die for, clothes, shoes, jewellery . Guest houses obv r gorgeous. Then Eve Myles ( Fran) said we have a little cottage by the coast. Her version of a little cottage by the coast and mine r vastly different.
it’s huge , fabulous inside n out and they all drink constantly , have fab careers n house is immaculate .
jealous much

Forgot to add beautiful well manicured gardens, gardener , cleaner , full fridge. Kitchen to end my days in . En-suite the size of a small European country and both have walk in wardrobes with fab his n hers clothes .
when I win the lottery I ‘m going to get all of this . Just need to buy my ticket and win it .
lovin this post

Actually hubby watches Midsummer murders which I don’t really bother with, but some of the houses are gorgeous.
Winder where I went wrong in my life

In real life, those chocolate box cottages in leafy villages are a bugger to maintain, draughty, have dodgy wiring and have rat problems. Hope that makes you feel a bit better...