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Kirstie Allplop on Xmas crafts and Newsnight

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nigelslaterfan · 09/12/2009 12:31

AIBU to have had enough of this pompous harridan?

Yes she does patronise us in a truly beautifully-spoken way and she has a lovely face, I'll give her that. But if ITV decided to commission an immoral live television event of Kirstie being chased to a likely mortal end by wolves through an attractively Christmassy nordic landscape; then I would watch.

No Kirstie NO I will NOT be doing a glass blowing course in order to learn to blow my own baubles thanks you great buxom strumpet.

And no, I don't regularly spend 10 to 20 squid on an individual Xmas tree decoration you titled hussy, I don't care how many years they last, my father is not a Lord and I shall not be buying them. Just go home to Buckinghamshiire or the Cameron's house and whittle yourself a turkey centrepiece and leave me alone,

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JollyPirate · 09/12/2009 12:32

Go on... speak your mind......

Yeah it's all a bit rich coming from her isn't it?

HeadFairy · 09/12/2009 12:32

So did you watch it last night then?

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nigelslaterfan · 09/12/2009 12:34

I was grappling children into bed but saw a bit in passing.

Some of it is fine but it's just her snootiness that I find so trying, did you see her on Newsnight? I mean she genuinely has no idea has she about how the other 95% live and Cameron might make her a housing advisor? God help us!

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catsmother · 09/12/2009 12:35

I only saw the trailer (all of 30 seconds) and I still wanted to slap her .......

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nigelslaterfan · 09/12/2009 12:36

glad I'm not entirely alone!

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ImSoNotTelling · 09/12/2009 12:38

And what's wrong with making your own baubles?

People who don't have their own kiln and furnace in the stables for this purpose are simply LAZY IMO

VinegarTinselTits · 09/12/2009 12:38

oh yes, wouldnt we all love a home made home filled with evergreens

She makes it look so easy, just pop out to the nearest craft shop and buy yourself a beautiful cottage in the country and fill it with loveiness

i get my baubles from poundland dear, and no i cant blow my own because i am sure that would cost me an arm and a leg and a weeks salary

MadameDuBain · 09/12/2009 12:39

It's not just her though is it? All home magazines and sunday supplements and various telly programs seem to assume you have ££££ to spend on poncy/designer household decor.

I think a lot of it is just armchair decor porn... you don't watch kirstie pontificating on £20 baubles because you actually need or want one. It's just entertaining drivel isn't it.

I do like the way she's a bit different, says what she thinks and has her own look and style, so I think it's good that she gets to be on telly. She's a cut above the legions of bottle-blonde skinny identikit babes who present a lot of stuff.

BonjourIvressedeNoel · 09/12/2009 12:41

She needs a slap ( but her house is very nice)

Merrylegs · 09/12/2009 12:42

Excellent!

Apparently she is giving everyone at her OH's office, coffee machines for Christmas. As you do.

She is awfully pretty though.

lucykate · 09/12/2009 12:43

i love kirstie, i love the idea of the programme, the handmade christmas theme. but in reality, it was all a bit jolly hockey sticks. instead of antique shops charging £25 for a plain glass dish, she should have been going round charity shops and jumble sales. blowing your own glass bauble was very ott!

juneybean · 09/12/2009 12:44

I quite fancy doing the salt dough decorations with my charge though lol

rey · 09/12/2009 12:45

I just love the fact that she's not skinny and still looks good.

rey · 09/12/2009 12:45

Having said that I did switch over when she was on Question Time.

TheGoatofChristmasPast · 09/12/2009 12:46

i love her, i love the show. off course it is drivel but am not going to watch someone in an bog standard house making paper chains and plugging in their fiber optic tree am i. i want fantasy

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nigelslaterfan · 09/12/2009 12:47

oh I agree, I do think she is one of the naturally best looking women on telly, and I like that she's curvaceous actually, good role model in that sense for certain.

I don't mean to wish her to be ravaged by wolves live on television.

It's just I'm doing Xmas this year for not that many people, my mil usually does it and is so good at it. I've hardly ever had to do it so have never mastered the hell of being Responsible For Everyone's Joy.

I find it hard enough just to do the sodding presents and cards......

This programme is fine, I agree about the decor porn of course. It was the info about glass blowing courses that made me want to boak all over her Boadenesque boots.

she is like UberBoadenEarthMotherShip isn't she?
So I shall let her live!

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lucykate · 09/12/2009 12:48

did she have boden boots on?, i thought they were hunter wellies

MintyCandyCane · 09/12/2009 12:49

I was quite impressed that she blows her own.... I thought she would have staff for that.

VinegarTinselTits · 09/12/2009 12:50

I would have appricated her efforts more if she had gone and rumbled through the castoffs at the school christmas fair, and produced an array of decorations from someone elses unwanted goods that cost her 20p and a raffle ticket

MintyCandyCane · 09/12/2009 12:51

My fav line in the show was this.

"It is amazing to think that everything in this house has been made"

not handmade "made".

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nigelslaterfan · 09/12/2009 12:52

May I add in case I am quite rightly accused of hypocrisy I am considerably better padded than young Allsopp who is probably size 12!

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BalloonSlayer · 09/12/2009 12:52

ROFL at "you great buxom strumpet."

VinegarTinselTits · 09/12/2009 12:53

i do admit she is gawjuss though

moonmother · 09/12/2009 12:53

Rofl - I watched this and both myself and Dp felt like vomiting.

Lino cut your own pattern to make your own unique Xmas cards for £20. £20 wtf- mine cost £3.99 from WHS.

I agree with the greenery though, I usually have to trim a few branches off the Xmas Tree before I decorate it, and we go for a walk in the local woods to cut extra bits to make a wreath etc from , but thats only because DP's sister used to own a florists and he used to help make the wreaths every year. Also real already made wreaths are a extortionate price.

Can't believe she went through all the pfaff of having florists make her garland for the stairs, hand blown glass baubles etc , then just chucked every thing on her tree willy nilly- my DC's could have done a better job of decorating a tree than that.

If it's going to be Kirsty's Handmade Xmas then it should be Kirsty and Kirsty only making the items, on a normal every day budget.

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nigelslaterfan · 09/12/2009 12:54

yes, minty there were a couple of things she said on Newsnight as well that gave you that breathtaking mouth open amazement like when you hear that Prince Charles man puts the toothpaste on his toothbrush and has staff who make him 10 boiled eggs all at different boiling times so he can try them all and eat the one he finds is perfect.

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