Well the answer is nothing. I'm sure he's a top bloke. It's just some of the programmes he hosts occasionally make me want to throw up. I abhor what I call matey matey programmes where everyone is bright eyed and bushy tailed. These programmes don't inhabit the real world. They live in a colourful and glossy word where there are no arguments, no problems and everyone is having such a good time.
Probably the worst of these is The One Show on BBC. Guest after guest turns up to plug a new record or book or let us into their homes. It's all very nauseating. A so called comedian cracks an unfunny joke and everyone rolls around with laughter as if it's the funniest thing they have ever heard. All the guests are such lovely, funny, zany and interesting people and we are just so lucky to be able to welcome them into our home (not).
Alan Titchmarsh has been involved in many such shows. I copped a load of something which I believe was called Spring into Summer (obviously a play on words) a few days ago. It was a half hour programme that said nothing, did very little and had no point other than to fill half an hour in the schedules.
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I was fascinated to see an item on the news about a resurgence in deck chairs at seaside resorts. It took me back to the days of my youth and regular trips to Great Yarmouth where you couldn't move on the beach for people in deck chairs. These would be hired out for a certain period. Now they are making a comeback. Light, easy to make and assemble it's definitely a flashback to the 1960s.
I have photographs of my mother and father sitting on deck chairs on the sand. I just used to sit on the sand as deck chairs seemed to be for "very old" people.
Yesterday we did go to the North Norfolk coast where it was very warm, bordering on hot, with temperatures hitting 27 degrees. There were so many people around that finding somewhere to eat was difficult. Can't help thinking about how busy our resorts are going to be once the school holidays start with going abroad so problematic. Everyone will be staycationing this year which will bring driving and parking problems.
We stupidly came back on the A 47 which was gridlocked. Good idea to clog traffic up on both sides with major roadworks just when the weather is improving, the holiday season is starting, workers are beginning to return to offices and lockdown restrictions are being eased.
Yesterday I mentioned Coronation Street writing scripts for five year olds. What I meant was that some of the storylines are rather implausible. Peter Barlow has at last had a liver transplant. One became available and they had an hour to find him or it would have been given to someone else (what a load of tripe). Then we had the young man charged with grievous bodily harm and murder being granted bail (just wouldn't happen). Mind you Corrie is the only Soap I watch and why is that? Because it is still the only one that bears any resemblance to reality.