My “grand design” – what do I know?
Thursday, July 5th, 2007I’ve just been watching one of my favourite TV programmes, Grand Designs. Every episode is a tale of hope and of human triumph in the face of considerable adversity. Best of all it shows that if you have a big plan it is always ten times more difficult to deliver than your worst possible estimate.
Kevin McCloud looks on and commentates in his laconic and smug, but laid back and highly entertaining style. The thing about “reality” TV is that we can all sit back and smile with the expert, at how dumb the subjects are for not realising that they needed building regs approval for the step they are replacing with one that is 1.5 inches lower than the incumbent broken one. Meanwhile we are led to believe that the whole project is in jeopardy as a result.
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