@terrywynne
What I like on this and the pottery throwdown is that people help each other. They explain bits of the patterns if someone is confused. On the pottery one they share tools and help lift heavy parts of clay about. It would be so easy to have a whole load of people who are so utterly focused on winning that they won't help each other because that would help "the enemy".
Yep. And that was what struck me about the glass-blowing one. Too many egos, not enough humanity.
I couldn't get away with the jewellery one because I cringed at the presenter and the judges. It made me realise how important it is to match these to the show.
GBBO has gone down the wrong route I feel. Where you can only complete the task well or in time with a pastry chef up your pinny, the love of the oven gods and the blessings of the fairy cake fairies written on Holy grease proof paper
Yes - and it's a real shame.
Raph is great with fabric but I don’t warm to him
I'm the same, Im afraid - there's been a couple of times he's looked as though he thought he should have got the garment of the week (and I think that on one week I agreed with him, but I can't remember which), and it's been written in his face. However, when you put a lot of work in, and it's a close call, it must be hard to mask your disappointment.
On the other hand, he might just have had indigestion - I an cr*p at reading expressions.