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i missed the prog but did go to the link she looks happy but def needs a pamper month!!
she doesnt use oil of olay like me

I know exactly what you mean OH

Boy meets a girl....girl wears makeup and looks beautiful...man firms the relationship in whatever way they agree...girl still wears makeup

After the makeup wears off can the boy dissolve the partnership through misrepresentation

I have often wondered whether this form of disolution has been tried and more to the point succeeded...not that I want to part company with my Governor you understand

or

is the old adage beauty in the eye of the beholder still true in today's PC world...not PC World the computer shop but the Politically Correct World

Just to be clear I'm not suggesting that Christine should wear a full maquillage during the programme; one Rachel de Thame is enough! I maintain that there are few women who can carry a short back and sides and get away with it. Stella Tennant maybe, Greta Garbo definitely. But Christine Walkden? I think not!
We are, after all, a visual species. Why else would we plant anything not edible or useful?

I enjoy watching Christine's programme and then I switch off as soon as Gardener's World comes on cos it is sooooooo dull these days.

Spreading peat based compost all over the flowerbeds as a mulch made me raise my eyebrows a bit. I wouldn't bother ripping everything out and replanting every 5 minutes either. Not really sustainable or eco-friendly, but each to their own. Watching Christine trying to suck the bath water down her hosepipe had me in stitches and her banter with the lovely Reg makes the programme. Her work with the kids growing wild flowers for the railway was good stuff too.

Christine gets a lot of flack for her appearance which is sad, because if she was a bloke, no-one would say a word and we should be past all that in this day and age me thinks

Sue

The most useless of the current crop of TV gardeners and I'm including Dairmud Gavin in that crop.

Sue wrote:I enjoy watching Christine's programme and then I switch off as soon as Gardener's World comes on cos it is sooooooo dull these days.

Spreading peat based compost all over the flowerbeds as a mulch made me raise my eyebrows a bit. I wouldn't bother ripping everything out and replanting every 5 minutes either. Not really sustainable or eco-friendly, but each to their own. Watching Christine trying to suck the bath water down her hosepipe had me in stitches and her banter with the lovely Reg makes the programme. Her work with the kids growing wild flowers for the railway was good stuff too.

Christine gets a lot of flack for her appearance which is sad, because if she was a bloke, no-one would say a word and we should be past all that in this day and age me thinks

Sue

I've no idea what anyone's talking about but hear hear Sue!

I actually think it is very sad that you seem to think her appearance is more important than her knowledge !
for heavens sake I was always told 'if you having nothing nice to say, then say nothing' !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nooooooo! Can't stand her!

I've actually learnt how to use the off switch!!!!

There is always the off switch but to slag someone off because you do not like their appearance is not on'beauty is in the eyes of the beholder' and frankly I find some of the remarks offensive
moderator please note !

It's nothing to do with the eye of the beholder.

She's one of the world's most irritating people!!!!

Gilly C wrote:There is always the off switch but to slag someone off because you do not like their appearance is not on'beauty is in the eyes of the beholder' and frankly I find some of the remarks offensive
moderator please note !

I suspect that my views may be some of the ones you have found offensive. I think that my criticism of her appearance is balanced. I have publicly acknowledged her comprehensive knowledge too.
I'm sorry that you feel offended by the views of others, but I do think that on a public forum you're always going to have differing opinions. And the value of positive dissonance should not be underestimated. Indeed, is this not how we grow and learn?

Well I have not watched the programme but feel that no matter whether see is a raving beauty or not she has got there by sheer talent 'cos it wasn't by ogling the producer. I cannot see that her visual impact should worry anybody.
If you want to have the benefit if here advice then watch the programme if not do as Gilly advises.
I do not find the comments offensive but they are certainly not necessary.
Lets hope that the poor girl doesn't log onto this forum as I can see that the remarks would be very hurting to her.
JB.

chill pill anyone
i intend to watch it next time its on as if its worth this kind of debate then i feel the need to arm myself with the correct info

gilly are you she in disguise

Dear Jopsy, actually Christine reminds me very much of you.

Have just checked why I didn't watch the programme last Friday, and cannot again this Friday. Wales, so it's rugby on BBC2 - and wait till you hear my comments on that load of mindless rubbish

Alan