This is a very agreeable, undemanding show, just right for easy viewing over lunchtime! The basic idea is that people bring in furniture, fabrics, or other materials, to be repurposed, often quite radically. Indeed some of the results are really weird. Amanda Lamb is a genial host, and keeps things moving a!ing nicely. I think it's filmed in Essex, but I don't recognise the workshop site. It looks very rural, anyway. My one slight reservation is that it seems very similar to the BBC series "The Repair Shop", which works on a similar basis, but without the re-use idea. Otherwise, I think it's a good show.
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One small quesion
12 April 2021
This is a very funny episode, carrying on directly from the previous one. There are a lot of references to old-fashioned British murder-mysteries. One small point though - if the switchboard was off, how were the police alerted ? Perhaps Joe Maplin tipped them off, to shift any suspicion onto the sfaff, and put himself in th clear.
A lovely film, but one oddity
5 January 2007
I saw this again recently on British TV. It's a great film, with plenty of nostalgia, nice period atmosphere, and the lovely Doris Day. One slight oddity, though: her boy-friend returns from World War 1 in time for Thanksgiving (23rd November?), and says the Germans surrendered the day his unit got to Paris (11th November), so he must have got on a boat back to the States & been demobilised pretty quick to be home in less than 2 weeks (unless it took a year for that to happen!). Nonetheless, I recommend this very much to anyone interested in the Golden Age of American film musicals, the decade from 1945 to 1955, and the wonderful stars who beguiled us with their gentle escapism.
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