There are many ways to make it, and I took the long way round. For a while, I was very broken, but for the last thirty years I have mostly been trying to help people make or repair things. It might be furniture, it might be a relationship: it might even be themselves ... This … Continue reading Book Review: Jay Blades – ‘Making It: How Love, Kindness and Community Helped Me Repair My Life’
It's fair to say that the current time is one where you hang onto and pick those moments, those little oases of calm, where all seems a little bit better in the world. Which, in the case of The Repair Shop, would mean its time is absolutely now. Fronted by the genuinely lovely furniture upholstering … Continue reading #CrazyStupidTV: The Repair Shop (@TheRepairShop) (BBC One, 1st April)
I don't believe in having guilty pleasures. The very idea of the term just suggests snobbery of the highest order. Whether that's TV, music, books. If you enjoy something and it gives you pleasure, then who cares? Which is why I'm proud to say one of my new favourite shows on the box is one … Continue reading #CrazyStupidTV: Celebrity Money for Nothing (BBC One, Weekdays)
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