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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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Katisha · 09/12/2009 18:17

It's basically the same marvellous little artisans from the last series doing Christmas.
I think it was lazy to go back to the glassblower,for instance - surely she could have come up with something a bit more realistic for us proles?

I wonder who gets to hire the place over Christmas? Presumably the tree etc will be long dead, having been filmed somewhere round late Sept...

midnightexpress · 09/12/2009 18:29

It is such a load of old nonsense. It's not as if nobody has ever made a bloody Christmas cake by themselves, is it? I just feel rather confused by it all. It's either stuff we could do (cards, if not linocuts, salt dough, cakes) or ridiculous nonsense (the baubles, lovely as they were). I suggest that even if I really wanted to follow her fine example and blow my own glass, two weeks before Xmas is really not the time that most people will be signing up for a day's bauble-making. Even a morning pottering round the garden picking holly and ivy seems vaguely dream-like when I still haven't written a card/bought a present/got myself looking half-presentable.

Miggsie · 09/12/2009 18:31

I watched the first 5 minutes and wanted to slap her.

Homemade my arse!

Yes, when I'm making decorations I ALWAYS pop up to Liberty's in London and spend £65 on ribbon.

We switched off and watched a DVD.

Who WAS it aimed at?

aJumpedUpPantryBoy · 09/12/2009 18:53

I watched a few moments but I ended up screaming at the TV when she announced she was going to share her expertise and visit a school and teach them how to make salt-dough

salt dough - if she'd arrived in my classroom to teach me how to do that she'd have got short shrift.

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nigelslaterfan · 09/12/2009 18:55

I do defend her looks for some unknown reason.
(Thinks.... surely I have better things to do with my time that write K Allpoop is beautiful!)
I think she looks like the result of privileged tall handsome men running the army or navy who have consistently married pretty landed gels for innumerable generations. Her ancestors were probably the kind of men who went hunting with Henry VIII Fwah Fwah Fwah. I mean, she's an example of when that kind of breeding goes right, as opposed to when that kind of breeding goes wrong (eg the windsors).

I have to confess I make 90% of all my birthday cards and have done for years and about 50% of my xmas cards. I just think it makes sense to recycle the good quality ones into new cards.

( I am now actually sticking my bust out in a matronly fashion and my face has assumed a head shaking 'Isn't what I'm saying obvious to the well bred?' and my nose is rising upward and I'm starting to climb up my tree dressed as a fairy. )

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nigelslaterfan · 09/12/2009 18:57

except I don't have a blardy farking tree yet

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poinsettydawg · 09/12/2009 19:06

dd1 was watching the glass blowing. I couldn't watch. Kirstie is such a prize twat.

Crazycatlady · 09/12/2009 19:32

I thought it was a lovely Christmassy programme with lots of nice things to get us in the festive mood. I too will probably never go on a glass blowing course or have a garden big enough to house fir trees from which I make my own wreaths, but it was enjoyable viewing nonetheless. And it's fun to dream.

Kirstie may live in a different world from many of us but she comes across as a genuinely sunny, pleasant person which there aren't enough of on telly IMO.

Elfytigga · 09/12/2009 19:55

Having said that have you seen the size of her hands???? They are huge, was watching them all last night and will be off in a min to watch tonight!

BTW I have the star cutter thingy used last night and have had it for 2 years!

Tiggaxx

ImSoNotTelling · 09/12/2009 20:05

Huge hands eh?

Interesting...

Elfytigga · 09/12/2009 21:24

I still heart Kirsty

UnrepentantKirstyFanTiggaxx

spudmasher · 09/12/2009 21:26

Loud voice on trains. From Paddington to Tiverton. A bit tiring.

blowingglassmakesyouhot · 09/12/2009 21:34

I watched it but only because I live near the glass shop she visited. In fact, when I was a student, I went for a job in there as an assistant glassblower. I was asked to go in the following week to try it out when dp pointed out that it would be mega hot, and I am always too hot rather than cold anyway.

Now I wish I had gone for it and could have had a tree covered in glass baubles this year.

mumto3boys · 09/12/2009 21:58

Did no one else get stupidly annoyed with her harping on about how goot such and such a thing would look great in 'meadowgate' or whatever it was bloody called? She named the house about twenty times a minute.
Why could she not just say it will look good in the house?

Assuming she has so many houses she has to refer to them by name so we don't all get confused.

And you can bet your bottom dollar no children have ever actually played in that playroom!

But at least I don't have to run up my credot card bill on baubles anymore. I can do it much more cheaply buying them for £10-£20 hand made. Good job I watched really!

I assume there are no £1 shops near meadowgate!

poshsinglemum · 09/12/2009 22:03

I made some salt dough decorations today! [smug].

I think the idea is good but they need a different presenter such as hugh fernley whatdoyacallhim.

TBH- lots of these grow your own make your own types have the money and TIME to do so.

HohohoBumperlicious · 09/12/2009 22:18

I have a bit of a schol girl crush on KA, however I have a friend who went on Location and didn't have very positive things to say about Kirstie (kept going on about all her bugaboos) and though the show was shit. The showed my friend houses they had seen online for ages. My friend is one of those very particular (and beautiful) women who KA loves to get her teeth into on the show.

puffling · 09/12/2009 22:26

Is she the Swedish woman who was hounting for a house in the home counties? Did Kirsty say the show was shit?

I have noticed a change in Kirsty. She used to seem naive, jolly hockey sticks, flirtatious. Now she just seems angry.

NotanOtter · 09/12/2009 22:29

we nearly rented that house
dont think she should let on its hers
made us feel ripped off

AvrilH · 09/12/2009 22:35

Kirstie will have a particular clientelle for that rental

a friend who lives locally tells me the area is notorious for S&M parties and the house at Meadowgate is right next to a well known dungeon

google seems to confirm it, though I could only bring myself to click on the first link:
www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/299584/TV-PROPERTY-guru-Kirstie-Allsopp-faces-fresh-embarrassment-over -her-cottage.html

lucykate · 09/12/2009 22:39

dh walked in while i was watching tonights installment and said 'good grief, what has she done to her eyebrows!' just read some comments on twitter about it, why are they showing soap making that takes 6 weeks to do, when there's only just over a couple of weeks till christmas day?

BitOfFun · 09/12/2009 22:43

I love her. I will go into town and buy a linocut set tomorrow

I am desperate to try soap-making too, but it needs SIX WEEKS drying time. Bit pointless to get us all excited about making soap for Christmas then.

NotanOtter · 09/12/2009 22:46

i agree about the eybrows
good skin though And fabulous lips

lucykate · 09/12/2009 23:18

am a bit dismayed to find out she doesn't actually live at 'meadowgate', she's done a nigella and using a fake home to film a tv program from.

Knownowt · 09/12/2009 23:30

I wonder whether everyone who rents Meadowgate makes a point of shagging on the kitchen table, just so they can say to each other "we shagged on that" when they see it again on TV. I think I probably would.

I like KA. I agree that very few of the ideas were doable on a low budget but don't really understand the "proles" comments (tongue-in-cheek or not)- sounds a bit like inverted snobbery to me

midnightexpress · 09/12/2009 23:33

If I'd paid 3000 smackers for a week at Meadowgate I'd be swinging from the (vintage) chandeliers. Either that or cowering in a corner gibbering.