Hugh Fearnley blardy whitteringon with himself in the Guardian

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AIBU to be irritated by HFW in the Guardian mag taking 10 people on a freebie skiing holiday in a gorgeous Alp chalet somewhere and making a cake and a blardy fondue and presumably claiming the whole bloody lot.

I mean nice work but bugger off Hugh and your free holidays!!!! Can't he afford to just pay to take his family on holiday?

Bitter'n'twisted

Sorry - you are in Hebden - just read your post. Sorry - I am half asleep.

yes teh trotting off for yoga weekends factor is high round here too.

You're in the happy valley too MrsMT? A lovely place to be - in spite of my griping.

EleanoraBC. I do dip my toe in the hippy waters occasionally. I went to an 'Earth Mysteries' group once. Mike, the group leader, was wearing a long cape. It got caught on a candle and went up in flames. I didn't go back.

I am indeed - well, in Heptonstall, which is close enough to smell the scented aromatherapy candles. (I take the piss too, but am secretly the kind of person who is considering going on a yoga weekend)

lol @ earth mysteries. we have a strange shop that is never open that is full of tie dyed things and leaflets on harassing the earth mothers power etc.

i would love a yoga weekend but am afraid my inability to do the splits would show me up and the others would throw incense sticks at me

(Near Helmsley) (wouldn't need any fecking celeb chefs if everyone cooked like the folks who run the pubs up there nom nom)

what were you channelling?

Personally, the thoughts of the lovely nosh to come in the pub near Byland Abbey....
In theory, spirits and what have you. At the time I was convinced I'd done it as well, feeling auras etc but on reflection I could well have been channelling the red wine and spliffs we'd had at lunchtime.

Ay, them were the days.

Oh I can't do yoga - I just like the idea of it. I go to a hippy dance thing that incorporates yoga elements, even though I personally have the flexibility and suppleness of a coffee table.

What the hell are you lot on about?

Come on here to slag off chefs and you have all digressed to scottish hippies!

I for one am quite happy to go back to slagging off overpaid smug London chatterers.

they are the reason why I stopped buying sunday papers years ago, and then all broadsheets.
"...very reasonable at only 100 pounds for lunch for two..."
F*K OFF!

exactly Nighby.
Some of these people actually write quite good cookery books but it doesn't mean I want to waste my weekends reading banal tripe about their lifestyles.

I'd still like to live in Nigella's studio house.

I had to shoot off and collect my ds from friends house. Has this thread gone off the boil then (no pun intended).

I do like Rick Stein but Big Cook Ben and Little Cook Small are crap, none of their recipes ever work.

My sister got hit on by a drunk Big Cook Ben at a party, he asked if he could 'nail' her. Although it took time (nano seconds) to ponder this wonderful offer, she declined.

He sounds like a thoroughly unpleasant chap from other threads on here.

I think tv stardom has gone to his head

roffle roffle roffle

I tell you one good-ish metropolitan food type, and it's Matthew Norman in the Guardian weekend

I normally give restaurant columns a v wiiiide berth, but for every three or so big expensive troughy guzzles he does, he squeezes in a nice cheap BYO caff style one. And he's a bit funny too (take note Jay Rayner, you boring greedy guts)

A-ha, so Big Cook Ben has form! I must do an advanced search.

Please don't cast nasturtians at Jay, SpringHeeledJack.

I find him rather attractive with his devilish little beard, makes him look all masterful and...devilish.

this thread is so funny I have nearly done a post natal mini wee owing to giggling and laughing and being too tired to go to the loo.

LOL LOL LOL about Hugh's blardy MUM sucking at the teat of his success, what about jools's books and crazed maniac Gordon's blardy wife - they all right books the great pile of slags!

At least Nigel (for all his faults....) has written some great cookery books imho.

lol AccioPinotGrigio and moondog!

Or Little Cook Small, not picky

• not for the experience, but it would be a hoot to say you'd done it

It would no doubt be mentioned at your funeral oration

Oh no, Little Cook Small weirds me out!!!

He's just too .... erm ..... um ..... SMALL!

nonononono, weegiemum

I don't mean I would enjoy it

I would just like to say I'd done it

Don't think he's that small in RL, weegiemum.

It's a televisual trick.
Like them dinosaurs and Amanda Holden having talent.

Yeah you lot, you've mad me laugh too, thanks. And Eleanora - surely you meant harnessing the Earth Mother's powers?! (not harrassing, lol)