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| Howard...a nice guy even when Deborah stole his custard |
Top of my list must be Howard, a wry, sensitive Yorkshireman who cried when the cute and rather innovative Ali was voted off last night. He may not be as talented as the luminous Kimberly or student Ruby, but there is a niceness about him which is rather appealing.
" Nice" is perhaps a byword for Bake Off
Christine, the oldest member of the group is a sweetie, so is the rotund wisecracking teacher Glen who endeared himself to the audience by covering his eyes so dramatically when Mel and Sue tried to help Howard save his filo pastry ring from its container. and it makes a nice change to be able to sit down with a cuppa to watch nice people, doing nice things in a nice programme.
Sometimes nice is just right.
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ReplyDeleteI wonder if Howard Street, Walkley and The Howard Hotel near the station were named after Howard. Niceness is good - that's one of the reason I like the quiz show "Pointless" with nice Alexander Armstrong and his wryly humorous sidekick Richard Osman. There's never any nastiness in this show.
ReplyDeleteI wonder where exactly he comes from.. One shot had him running in Hillsborough park
DeleteWho knew there was so much drama in custard tarts!!
ReplyDeleteAnd the Fiona incident was hilarious
DeleteI like 'nice'
ReplyDeleteHere in Oz, we are a series behind, but it is a truly addictive program.
ReplyDeleteThe last series was a cracker too
DeleteHear, hear. There are too many people snarling at each other on the tele, I get fed up with it. I also love this programme.
ReplyDeleteBriony
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Howard is very sweet, I agree. Love luminous as an adjective for Kimberly. Ruby is beginning to slightly irritate me with her self conscious beauty and saucer eyes; I doubt her student accommodation is quite as squalid as Mary and Paul were making out. Sour grapes? Definitely!
ReplyDeleteLol ruby is a bit of a game player me thinks
DeleteFrancis with her " style over substance" is heading for a fall too
I couldn't agree with you more! I'm able to watch the bake off in the Netherlands so you don't bore me at all with this post!
ReplyDeleteHello pike, thanks for the comment
DeleteHear, hear we're loving nice. Find I can't take my eyes off Howard's huge set of polished gnashers though!
ReplyDeleteHe does have lovely teeth.. I noticed that
DeleteYour cooking competition programmes must be much nice than our cut throat version where they all hate each other.
ReplyDeleteThe BBC TRIES to film ( or catch) the competitors watching each other in an effort to see if they can catch a sneer, but generally it does it work
DeleteI totaly agree. I always root for the nice people. A little niceness goes a long long way.
ReplyDeleteFuck off
Delete( only joking)
love the bake off's....we had one on tv here in the states with Paul Hollywood on it and I loved it!
ReplyDeleteI agree about "nice".
ReplyDeleteThe opposite is nasty and there's an awful lot of that about.
I haven't seen a single programme yet. The catching up will make dragging ourselves back to the UK tomorrow from our nice little house in France just about bearable.
Well I hope you enjoy the new contestants
DeleteLook out for Deborah stealing Howard's custard
Priceless
I am really looking forward to that.....only hope the recorder has not thrown a wobbly and recoreded East Enders by mistake....aaaastghhhhh
DeleteMissed it again. I'm obliged (so far) to watch the Sunday repeats; but no worse for that!
ReplyDeleteI knew I shouldn't have read this...we haven't watched it yet! Surely not Ali, surely not, surely not...he was a lovely fellow...and very quick on the uptake too
ReplyDeleteBeing nice is underestimated.
ReplyDeleteI went to the doctor today, needed a blood test and instead of making an appointment for another day which could ahve proved tricky, I got whisked through to do it immediately because the nurse new was at reception because someone failed to turn up for their appointment. I thanked him profusely and he responded with an 'That's ok,it's nice to be nice.'
Couldn't agree more.
Lisa x
Little acts of niceness make the world go round.
DeleteWe watched it last night John - the drama of those individual baked egg custards was nail biting.
ReplyDeleteSpot on! We've all become so cynically bored and "post" everything in our culture, that some bog-ordinary niceness is great to escape to.
ReplyDeleteHere here welcome aboard pvuk
DeleteIs that Austin Powers? ('Scuse me, but I've never watched it, as you might guess.)
ReplyDeleteGive it ago ray..... I bet u will enjoyit
DeleteI might have done, if it didn't include meat and fish meals. Or does it? I'm assuming.
Delete(I already have to navigate my way past meat stalls in supermarkets with eyes closed!)
Nice is underrated. We could stand a lot more nice in our lives.
ReplyDeleteI absolutely adore Mel. I'd bake all day for one of her naughty giggles.
ReplyDeleteSue is a sweetie too....... As is Mary Berry
DeleteI was really sorry to see Ali go ..... he just wasn't good with tarts !!!! XXXX
ReplyDeleteThat makes two of us
DeleteCoffee, keyboard, splutter......
DeleteI like nice, and I really hate it when people steal my custard.
ReplyDeleteLove,
Janie
Steal my custard and lose your fingers
DeleteYou old wet, you.
ReplyDeleteLove that programme! I hope we don't have to wait too long for it to come to NZ television, we're always way behind over here. I loved the 2012 series and I fondly remember the squirrel from 2011.
ReplyDeleteThat's me!
ReplyDeletePaul Hollywood was in a neighbouring town to me yesterday, he was being filmed tasting coffee at a nearby Costa Coffee Shop - my friend's husband had his pic taken with him. I won't mention what a cheating scumbag he is (PH not my friend's husband!) for dumping his wife and running off with some tart(pun intended). I like Mary,Mel and Sue though.
ReplyDeleteIt must be nice, even Lovely Hubby is captivated, and he hates cooking shows, hates reality TV anything and hates frilly frou frou (kitsch.)
ReplyDeleteMy goodness, what have I been missing?
ReplyDeleteYes, it is NICE to see something positive AND enetrtaining on the telly (as opposed to constant bad news that we're being fed and some really bad movies and reality shows...). Howard and Glen are my favourite! Such nice :) genuine and warm men!
ReplyDeletePozdrawiam, Anula.