Kirstie Allplop on Xmas crafts and Newsnight

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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,

Location, location was OKish but Relocation, Relocation used to regularly make my blood boil. Nobody actually needs two houses (unless they are greedy fuckers). When did it become normal to need a "bolt hole in the country" and a "crash pad in the city"?

Hmmm, I don't think that in reality the housing boom was caused by Kirstie and Phil...

Perhaps it had something more to do with demand outstripping supply and (unsustainably) cheap lending rates...

I don't think she's particularly pretty, but do find her ego good self esteem rather attractive. Whilst it would probably be a bit annoying in real life, she comes across as happy to be herself.

For the programme, I quite liked all the things I'd like to do if I wasn't so lazy and had unlimited time and funds. Blowing glass - that is kind of fascinating, not? Hmm, maybe it's just me and small things and all that...

the best bit of that show last night was the playroom with 10,001 objects with which a child could strangle himself and/or on which he could easily choke.

not to mention fun breakage potential!

of course Cameron would consider giving Kirstie a cushy job to advise him on housing! surely you didn't think he'd award posts to proles based on merit? silly you!

he's as clueless as she is and an ignorant pompous twat into the bargain.

PMSL at this thread...

Surely this whole programme is just 'food for thought'... No-one ACTUALLY goes and spends £20 designing their own christmas cards, do they????? But, the idea is there that you could pop down to hobbycraft, pick up 50 blank cards and envelopes for £3 and paint your kids handprints or make a design on a potato!!

Anything that stops the progression of power to the ruddy supermarkets / chain stores is good in my book!!

And she is jolly enthusiastic all the time!!

Kirstie thinks that "we all" benefited from the housing boom. Because proles are just not people to her.

Expat - I remember that playroom. PMSL at the "Never mind the bollocks" poster on the wall. Some mischevious assistants, I am sure. Did not strike me as the kind of joke that Ms Allplop would make herself.

@ jolly enthusiastic!

Was it me or did she look up the duff again?

Is Kirstie on MN?!

. . . er I think she might be emsyj

i do like location, location, probbaly because i am a nosey moo and love looking in oher peoples homes and other than breaking and entering just to see what the yummy mummies at teh school gates houses are really like its the only way i can be nosey

They do deceive on location though, the over 50's one the other week, was in caversham and they showed a house whihc yes fronts onto the river but if the camera panned out a bit you'd have seen a bridge that gets bumper to bumper traffic every day twice a day, a scruffy canal path and probably some local tramps under the bridge!

I also think she is a more realistic body image idol than many other presentres but she does wear some really unflatterring clothes, and my xh calls her the moustache woman, as she often has what i assume to be an unflattering shadow on her top lip.

I find her very pleased with herself in that jolly public school gel way. I am sure though she is charming and lovely in RL if somewhat detached from the money constraints we all battle with. My DH got ratty that I spent £3.50 on one little ornament FFS
I bet Kirsty stamps on £3.50 baubles in her daft clunky shoes.

I WISH I was Kirstie - just to have her house! Mine is in a pretty poor state but am not rich/creative/motivated enough to do anything about it.

Do you think she would sign my petition if she is made housing adviser?

petitions.number10.gov.uk/Childlands/

I'd love to have a go at glass blowing though... and will def. make those salt decoration thingys.

I always make my own cards and have my relatives driven demented-- cooing over the lovely ceramics my kids paint each year!!

(the eldest of whom is 15YO and the youngest is 4 months... so you just IMAGINE how much pottery / home made gifts some of my relatives have!! hahaha!!

I make my own Christmas cards, pretend the children have done it, and am very smug handing them round.

I caught a few minutes of her hand made house programme, but was put off when the local blacksmith became involved. FFS.

pmsl, darcy.

she'd probably be aghast that people actually live with their children!

don't they have staff/boarding schools for that kind of thing?

I'd love to be able to dislike her but I can't. I am v v v of her kitchen and her high foluting tottyness.

Plus, we need a British version of Martha Stewart.

WouldDoMildViolenceForKirsty'sKitchenTiggaxx

Is it on again tonight or is it just a repeat ?

Why does she have WOW written up on the wall ?

We don't need a british version of Martha Stewart she just makes normal people feel crap about the state of their houses.

I love her.

She reminds me of my v bestest friend in the world.

But laughed at the idea that you could find all that greenery 'in your own back garden'.

Not in mine. Used cat litter, a soggy sandpit and some very overgrown grass do not, in my estimation, make for gorgeous Christmas decorations.

(Although have recently used a stick and some silver spray to excellent effect. DS1 was so impressed. 'Why've you stuck a twig on the wall mum?' Sigh.)

I'm with Tigga, we DO need a bit of lovely stuff, even if it IS hopelessly aspirational for some, if not most, of us.

Beats the crap out of watching how the oiks on JK behave, nor how those that have too much money and zero taste choose to display their wealth. I'd rather watch KA present a progamme on making expensive stuff than someone like Colleen Rooney, or gauge out my eyeballs Cheryl Cole spash their cash on tacky blue lights and needless plastic shite.

The KA programme is not about us all rushing out and emulating her, it's about inspiring us to think differently about stuff.

..And at least KA speaks proppa! not like Aleeesha, or whoever else is normally being rammed down our throats on telly.

i think its great. in fact the skideos and i made salt dough decorations today!!! although i dont recall it being quite that messy on the tv!!

harimosmummy. I did actually today go through the process of looking at lino cutting tools on the internet, established they were too expensive, then rejected the idea.

But it was close...

cloud Wonder how far lino moved up the Google rating today???

MightHaveHadALookMyselfTiggaxx

definitely elfytigga. Like a Delia-fication thing but for lino cutters.