On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 22:28:04 +0100, Owain wrote:

Séan Connolly wrote:
Contrary to some listings, tonight's Grand Designs (just started, C4) is
the coppice-worker's house again.
Its the 'revisited' one this time though.

Yes, but he's now got a flock of sheep, a woman, and a son.

IMO, the original series had portrayed him as a guy who was completely in
tune with his environment, someone who eschewed the frills and frippery of
domesticated life.

I had watched, somehow expecting to see the place not too much altered from
when it was finished - i.e. he was still living there on his own and would
have provided only the bare minimum to make the life he was living when it
was last shown that little bit more comfortable.

He's been domesticated, and the house now says far more about his partner
than it does about him.....

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