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Mary-Jane

Joined: 13 Jan 2005
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Location: The Fishing Strumpet is from Ceredigion in West Wales

Posted: Thu Oct 12, 06 8:15 pm Post subject: Start a New Life in the Country on now - Channel 5
A couple have bought a run-down garden centre and farmhouse in Suffolk and are planning to grow chillis and open a Mexican restaurant... Bloody mad as cheese. Mind you - if we'd have gone with Channel 5 instead of Beeb 2 at least we'd have got paid...but you know Gervase

Bernie66

Joined: 14 Jan 2005
Posts: 13967
Location: Eastoft

Posted: Thu Oct 12, 06 8:17 pm Post subject: Re: Start a New Life in the Country on now - Channel 5

Mary-Jane wrote:

Mind you - if we'd have gone with Channel 5 instead of Beeb 2 at least we'd have got paid...but you know Gervase

And money is always handy

Mary-Jane

Joined: 13 Jan 2005
Posts: 18397
Location: The Fishing Strumpet is from Ceredigion in West Wales

Posted: Thu Oct 12, 06 8:20 pm Post subject: Re: Start a New Life in the Country on now - Channel 5

Bernie66 wrote:

Mary-Jane wrote:

Mind you - if we'd have gone with Channel 5 instead of Beeb 2 at least we'd have got paid...but you know Gervase

And money is always handy

Yup - but Gervase prefers the 18th century bartering system, wrapped in hand-spun 17th century wool tweed...

Bernie66

Joined: 14 Jan 2005
Posts: 13967
Location: Eastoft

Posted: Thu Oct 12, 06 8:24 pm Post subject:

Gervase

Joined: 17 Nov 2004
Posts: 8655

Posted: Thu Oct 12, 06 8:26 pm Post subject:
Look, sweetums, had we gone with Channel Five they would have wanted their money's worth by spending the whole filming period trying to get a wide shot of your rear end and getting footage of us arguing. Both of which, of course, are rarer than rocking-horse poo!

Bernie66

Joined: 14 Jan 2005
Posts: 13967
Location: Eastoft

Posted: Thu Oct 12, 06 8:32 pm Post subject:
But how much dosh would you have got. You could stage a fight for that and.......

High Green Farm

Joined: 30 Nov 2004
Posts: 349
Location: Mid-Suffolk

Posted: Thu Oct 12, 06 9:22 pm Post subject:
I think it's these guys https://www.chillicompany.com/ I drove past them the other day.

Mary-Jane

Joined: 13 Jan 2005
Posts: 18397
Location: The Fishing Strumpet is from Ceredigion in West Wales

Posted: Thu Oct 12, 06 9:35 pm Post subject:

High Green Farm wrote:

I think it's these guys

https://www.chillicompany.com/

I drove past them the other day.

Oh right - wonder what it's all like? Bloody good luck to them I say...

Why don't you pop in some time and report back to DS?

moonwind

Joined: 10 Sep 2006
Posts: 1140

Posted: Thu Oct 12, 06 11:10 pm Post subject:
Their website looks excellent, and the content would suggest they have thought hard about things. Why don't the mods from DS contact them by e-mail and invite them to join here? Like a little welcome card (virtually)? I bet they would have some helpful hints if they are prepared to share soem stuff with others.

Jonnyboy

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 23956
Location: under some rain.

Posted: Thu Oct 12, 06 11:19 pm Post subject:
What is it about BBC2 and Guardian readers?

Jonnyboy

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 23956
Location: under some rain.

Posted: Thu Oct 12, 06 11:21 pm Post subject:

High Green Farm wrote:

I think it's these guys

https://www.chillicompany.com/

I drove past them the other day.

They sell chilli themed hats, fancy that.

Andy B

Joined: 12 Jan 2005
Posts: 3920
Location: Brum

Posted: Fri Oct 13, 06 7:25 am Post subject:
It was a good program, did anyone catch the previous weeks one in Ireland �45.000 to buyand �14.000 to fix and they did it.

jema
Downsizer Moderator

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 28234
Location: escaped from Swindon

Posted: Fri Oct 13, 06 8:17 am Post subject:
I love such programme, though would really like top hear whay they have to say about what really happened.

alisjs

Joined: 23 Jun 2006
Posts: 1497
Location: Conwy

Posted: Fri Oct 13, 06 8:26 am Post subject:
the ireland people spent �30k not �14k in the end....family donations I think. Amazing result though. They seemed very happy!

High Green Farm

Joined: 30 Nov 2004
Posts: 349
Location: Mid-Suffolk

Posted: Fri Oct 13, 06 8:31 am Post subject:

Mary-Jane wrote:

High Green Farm wrote:

I think it's these guys

https://www.chillicompany.com/

I drove past them the other day.

Oh right - wonder what it's all like? Bloody good luck to them I say...

Why don't you pop in some time and report back to DS?

I'll try to....I don't go that way very often.....about once every six months....its on the way to the abattoir

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