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Mr and Mrs BBC2

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Bobbins · 04/06/2003 21:59

I know this story!

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Bobbins · 04/06/2003 22:02

They also live in my home town

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Bobbins · 04/06/2003 22:04

My GOD...that is my Dr's surgery and the nurse that gave Harvey his jabs!!!!!

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ks · 04/06/2003 22:09

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Bobbins · 04/06/2003 22:10

It is on now...they live round the corner from me

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Bobbins · 04/06/2003 22:13

multitaksing ks..the couple cam into my workplace yesterday morning as we hace aradio studio and they did an interview with Radio Scotland. They were really sweet.

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Bobbins · 04/06/2003 22:14

obviously multi tasking leads to typing errets

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judetheobscure · 04/06/2003 22:16

I wanted to watch this program but dh is watching the film on channel 5 ....tsssk.

SamboM · 04/06/2003 22:43

I want to know how they managed to move to a bigger house when they were so skint. Great programme but they skimped at the end!

I thought he was so sweet!

bossykate · 04/06/2003 22:45

saw it - compulsive viewing. they were so much nicer than last week's couple, anyone see that?

munchie · 05/06/2003 09:35

Have to agree with Sambo, yhe end was a bit rushed?? One minute they have no money and in the next breath they've moved to a bigger house and had another baby. A better couple than last weeks though, I'm afraid I wouldn't stay with my husband if he spoke to me like that. Can't wait till next weeks episode.

CAM · 05/06/2003 09:42

The best person in it was the sweet little baby - didn't like him being taken to work though.

snickers · 05/06/2003 10:37

I almost laughed and cried my way throughout it, feeling like all new parents had been through these various states of emotions after the birth of their baby. Who hasn't sat and cried miserably, clinging onto the baby with such guilt at being so sad... And the look of anguish trying to be disguised as "chilled" when the baby was screaming in the car... And being so mad at your DH/P that you can't even speak (let alone the cameras being there - I bet she would have really let off otherwise!!!)

Is there anybody here whose husband was the LAST one to get out and socialise after the baby was born?

And also the tense looks on their faces "Oh No the baby has woken up again!!" when they were away for their "romantic break!"

Enid · 05/06/2003 10:59

Were they real then Bobbins? We really thought it was a wind up...mind you I also thought the first How Clean is Your House was a set-up too so obviously getting old and paranoid.

arabella2 · 05/06/2003 11:21

I cried too Snickers - especially when they showed the baby at 5 hours old and then having his jabs (horrible). In some ways he reminded me of ds - ds having dark hair and eyes too - I hadn't realised how much emotion I still have bottled up about our experiences with ds (he is now 18 months old).
I thought they were both sweet as well...

aloha · 05/06/2003 12:02

What about the vile old boot at their nightmare dinner party telling that poor woman that if she 'didn't give the first five years to her child' - ie didn't work - 'well, I can't see why you bother having them.' Wanted to reach into my telly and give her a good slap.

ThomCat · 05/06/2003 12:14

That was so funy, when they were having their 'romantic' meal in the hotel room and not talking or just barely wispering! Very fuuny - the poor things! Would also love to know how they moved to a bigger house on 1 persons wage - and a tele sales wage, I didn't realise they paid well, I think I might be in the wrong job! Also re TV last night, did anyone see that woman who forged a new career in photography after 18 years of being a mother to her 3 kids, a husband tht was never thre. That made me cry - I was So happy for her.

Tinker · 05/06/2003 12:17

Am I the only one who really, really didn't like this woman? I can see she was under strain but the way she spoke to her husband was horrible. Enjoyed laughing at the vile old dinner party bag though. Thought the husband was sweet, rubbish job but trying to get on with it. Why couldn't she go out sometimes? The baby thing at work is just not going to last is it?

northernlass1 · 05/06/2003 12:53

aloha - I totally agree - silly old bat..

Tinker - don't you think she had a bit of PND - she looked like I did after my first, miserable, isolated and fed up - can't believe how tolerant her brother in-law was - customers don't really enjoy having to shout over a crying baby but perhaps it was cleverly cut and she works during the midday sleep or something.

Nice bloke though - perhaps he got a new job seemed like he should be doing something more than telesales.

She was brave being filmed in the bath though!

CAM · 05/06/2003 13:10

Maybe the TV company paid for their new house, as compensation for the bath shot.

codswallop · 05/06/2003 13:13

i would have left her - old boot. honestly the child was only having a jab..
bet she cringed by the time she got to number 2

codswallop · 05/06/2003 13:13

ps could she sulk!!!

ThomCat · 05/06/2003 13:14

Tinker - I don't think she did herself any favours. She was hormaonal though so I'll let her off!!!

Metrobaby · 05/06/2003 13:16

:D CAM

In the first 5 mins my DH actually thought it was a comedy ! We both smiled when they showed her hubby straight after the birth, then a few days later they both looked so tired.

The dinner party thing was funny too - couldn't stand the old one making those sweeping comments though.

On the program afterwards, I too felt so happy for the woman who managed to make it in photography. She seemed so positive and lovely.

codswallop · 05/06/2003 13:18

I always cry at other people having babies just not my own!