Slip a sable under the tree...

[susie_flo]

So... did any of you watch 'Kirsty's Homemade Christmas' last night or am I all alone in my uncontrollable compulsion to watch posh, busty, raven-haired beauties showing us all how to be domestic goddesses? (Come to think of it, I'd be better off hanging around at rosamicula's for kicks of that nature...)

Kirsty is like Nigella's even smugger little sister, sprinking fraudulent fairy dust over everything and attempting to combine aspiration overload with "I'm just like you ordinary people, really" in a way that makes you want to chew your own arm off.

Last night's episode was all about christmas decorations. Kirsty opened with the announcement that she would show us the true spirit of christmas by shunning excessive spending in favour of homemade things... "to decorate my beautiful Devon home". Then she did her usual trick of driving all over England, trying to convince us that buying antiques is the same as "hitting the second hand shops" and paying professional craftspeople for hand-blown glass baubles (£20 each) and huge evergreen swags. (Meanwhile, we should all be busy collecting the materials for our homemade wreaths from "the grounds" of our houses.)

Considering the tasteful, well-heeled tweeness of it all, the decorated christmas tree revealed at the end had me aghast. it looked like the aftermath of Tinkerbell and Mrs Claus having a catfight in the middle of Poundstretcher. Is this what happens when Kirsty is allowed to do things by herself?

Still... my sniping is futile and empty. I find it impossible to dislike her, and I know perfectly well that I will be glued to the set at 9pm this evening watching part two, where she will be showing us all how to do handmade presents. I can't help it. It's like a disease...

(It could be worse. I have in the past been caught red-handed watching Anthea Turner's Perfect Housewife)

Guardian review here... http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2009/dec/09/kirstie-allsopp-christmas-homemade

Comments

[gylfinir.livejournal.com]

Oh, bugger! I missed it! :(

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

All is not lost... u can watch it online courtesy of 4OD

[steer.livejournal.com]

God that sort of program either gives me rage (why are molecules allocated to these people) or despair (why do people consider this something to be aspired to -- "if you had the time and money you could piss both away on collecting glittery crap distracting you from the worthless sucking core that is the very centre of your life"). It's hard to maintain a carefree pacifism while such programs exist. I hope Kirsty whoever she is, is eaten by rats for christmas.

[steer.livejournal.com]

Yes, I am Mr Angry today.

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Calm down dear... It's only a glorified commercial! (if this response has failed to make you even angrier, I will eat my Christmas tree)
;-)

[r0ck3tsci3ntist.livejournal.com]

We have Martha for that sort of shame over here. Before she went to prison that is.

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

I heard about that... I think our equivalent is Anthea Turner... She's smiley in a truly unhinged way. I am placing bets that she will end up in a loony asylum before long

[ms-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Either loony bin or hospital after having been throttled by a demented viewer.

I can't bear either of them and can't even watch in a car crash kind of way. But maybe that's also because I am completely glued to the Saint Alan Bennett reruns on BBC4.

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

I ought to be watching St Alan with you.... but am constrained by my unhealthy compulsion to watch anything craft-related on TV... even when it is piss-poor and disappointing.

[ms-siobhan.livejournal.com]

I am completely in awe of his amazing moving without being at all mawkish or sentimental and hilarious writing.

I might have to write to him to say thank you for all the pleasure and thought provoking-ness his writing has given me over the years.

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Delighted to oblige :-)
hope you are feeling less glum

[kissmeforlonger.livejournal.com]

That really made me laugh. I like Kirsty Alsopp but she is the victorian epitome of going on about how these kinds of things ought to be done without actually doing it herself.

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Absolutely, I'm not sure how she gets away with it! (Mind you, I'm watching part 2 at the moment and it looks as though she is about to make soap from scratch).