more mud and boobs than naked pit wrestling! (Ground Force)

Member Name: bruffyboy

Product:	Ground Force
Date:	16/02/09 (35 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: educational

Disadvantages: not much in it for the contestants?

WHAT IS IT ABOUT:
A team of gardeners, headed up by Alan Titchmarsh, have two days to remake the garden of an unsuspecting individual who is unaware of the work taking place. The show ran from 1997 to 2005 on the BBC, and is currently repeated on UKTV Gardens.

WAS IT ANY GOOD:
It's a bizarre concept that holds this show together: with all the distractions of modern life - debt, work stress, family pressures and the like, would you feel a lot better to find someone had come and made your garden look nice? If you're like me, your garden is a pretty much unused patch of grass and bushes that you walk past on your way to the garage. That's not to say it never gets used - we made the most of the four sunny days this year by getting out there, but it certainly doesn't top my list of priorities. Now, here's my thinking: if it DOES top your list of priorities, and you ARE a garden lover, then presumably your garden already receives a lot of care and attention from you, and doesn't need a crack team of high profile gardeners to come and put some decking down?

What seems to happen a lot in this show is that lazy couples who can't be assed to do anything to their garden, and clearly don't care too much, get their gardens made over. Of course, you wouldn't say no to this, but I do seriously wonder what the point is.

Anyway, rant aside, it's a nice show to watch - you learn all sorts of interesting things about plants, decking and the like, and get plenty of creative ideas. For me, there's something alluring about seeing people get their hands muddy (I would do it myself if the weather was better more often), and of course there's the other two assests of the show - Charlie Dimmock's breasts.

Wives all over the country became flabbergasted at their husbands' sudden interest in a gardening show, and Dimmock was to thank (or blame) for that. If you don't know, she's the rough as rats chunk of a woman who would wear no bra under her t-shirt. Add cold weather, and lots of jiggly digging, and you've got two nipples going haywire on the screen.


IN CONCLUSION:
If you like gardening, you can learn a thing or two from this show, and if you like breasts, there are a couple of other points worth taking note of.

Summary: watch it!