Crisis at the Castle

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Better than Cherie fucking Blair, IMO.

These peoples' lives are absolute shit.

Started watching, it looked too sad, so turned over and saw the photos of baby Leo Blair with Bill Clinton instead.

It was fucking tragic.

Be glad you didn't watch it.

HIJACK ALERT - Expat, what's the weather like in the east today? I'm thinking of going through to North Berwick. Should I?

God it was sad .

Didn't see it - why was it sad and tragic?

What tickled me was the fact that the Ma and Pa were at times, acting as if it were a long cherished ancestral home.

The ruddy faced father bought it in the 60's or 70's for heavens sake. It was just family home of one generation.

Anyone watching this week?
Aaaargh.

God that Kiwi events manager/cleaner/coffee maker is a trouper.
I don't know why she doesn't throw the coffee back in their faces.

OMFG! Those two ('Lord' Glasgow and his son) were complete and utter twonks! The son - what a waste of space. The old chap wasn't any better. His own wife left skidmarks. Not hard to figure out why.

No wonder the mother and sister ditched them to live elsewhere.

If I were that Kiwi gal and her husband I'd have burned rubber out of there.

The son was the worst, carrying on like it was 1920.

Those two are the reason all 'titles' and complete crap like that ought to be abolished.

That sad excuse for a man that was the son will probably lose everything for poncing about.

Imagine being an able-bodied grown man and expecting to be waited on by pensioners who should be sunning themselves in their gardens.

And I'm sure covering the rendering in graffiti is going to make the place so attractive as a romantic wedding venue or for professional functions.

[rolls eyes]

I felt so sorry for Sandy the general dogsbody.
Does anyone else think that he lived in that wee cupboard

I felt sorry for Sandy's family, because if he'd have been my grand-dad you can better believe he wouldn't have been there that long, licking the master's boots.

Nor the cleaning lady who used to be the nanny.

Bugger that.

I hope that louse of a son doesn't expect that sort of servitude out of anyone in the younger generation or he's in for a big shock.

Thought it was hysterical when estranged wife turned up to rearrange the settee then reversed at high speed to get the hell away.

And if son and heir was so skint, how come he was smoking throughout?

Can you imagine how the brides (past, present and future) feel now they've seen the catering facilities.
Especially with said son and heir sitting his arse on the AGA

Yes, and they had plenty of money to throw family parties, drink wine and order takeaways because they couldn't be arsed to cook for themselves. Can you imagine the cost of having that delivered out there?

WTF.

They were a disgrace and I hope Billie takes full advantage of them for all they're worth and the Kiwis see reason and bail - that woman and her husband could easily get cracking jobs in Glasgow with their experience and afford to buy a nice home out there.

I laughed my arse off when the ex-wife and mother reversed out of there at warp speed!

What about when Lord Glasgow was moaning about how difficult it is to promote your wedding venue when you fall outside the health and safety regulations? And the place was just filthy. I loved that. And the fact that he would, er, go on television so all the world could see how bad it was [bemused]

Well, the man wasn't exactly brimming with business sense.

The son was just a lazy, waste of space loser twonk.

It's funny how SOME of these people - well, the first one and this last one - go on air and diss the very punters they are dependent on to keep their bloody roof up. That's really gonna reel the dosh in, folks!

I think the clever gene is sadly lacking in many 'aristocrats'. I mean, imagine wanting to turn the place into a venue and then covering it with all that naff grafitti? Yeah, I'd SO want to see that in my wedding photos.

Duh!

I was stunned at the grafitti, I thought he was joking .

DH kept shouting at the tv about what a completely useless waste of space loser he was. "Cut your hair and get a job" .

They had a rather strong sense of entitlement, didn't they?

Quite liked the graffiti actually, but as you say, not quite the thing for a wedding venue

It was astonishing to see the Upstairs, Downstairs mentality alive and well in someone even younger than I am.

Quite sickening, actually.

Why do you think the Kiwi woman didn't leave? I kept expecting her to walk out.

I think the Kiwi woman was giving it the ol' six months to see if it would turn round, to be honest.

And it's entirely possible she was learning the area, sorting it out, before looking for something different and better.

It's the situation of, when you're in a bad job, you don't necessarily want to take the first thing that comes up and jump from the frying pan into the fire.

They were completely new to Scotland - she'd been born there but had moved to NZ very young and her husband of course was a native Kiwi - so it's entirely possible they were getting a feel for the place first to see where was the best place to bolt.

Ah I see.
Well she was certainly determined.

She wasn't stupid. No one who's stupid gets as far as she did, company director for a 5 star hotel.

I reckon she's the type that seems laid-back, but makes certain she's got all her ducks lined up before taking a shot.