Love Your Garden and Injustice – review
takes some hosta-planting advice from Alan Titchmarsh
Alan Titchmarsh has gone back to what he does ideal in Love Your Garden (ITV1). Not sycophantic interviews with members of the royal family, or touring Britain trying to be David Dimbleby (or any of the other Britain tourers), but marking out a flowerbed using a hosepipe. With some handy hints: run some hot water through the hose first if you are doing it in winter, to make the hose more pliable.
He’ll have a tiny flirt with the ladies – Jill in Fareham in this one. And throw in the odd wise garden truth, like “ponds are made or marred by their edges”. And if there is a tiny pun to be had, then so much the better – like this boggy soil by the pond will suit this boggy soil-loving plant “down to the ground”. Ha ha ha.
I’m inspired: Alan’s going to help me unlock my potential, turn my dream into reality. Some of it is clearly ridiculous. I mean, I may not do the thatched summerhouse on a tiny jetty over a crystal clear pond, with lilies and a tiny bridge, and a troll living underneath most probably. But I may plant some hostas, in groups of three, for more impact. Thanks, Alan.
I felt let down by Injustice (ITV1) at the end, after giving up my week to it. I thought we were heading for a huge showdown between DS Wenborn and Travers, the nasty cop who gets results and the slick defence lawyer with the dark secret. But then Wenborn goes and falls down the stairs during a domestic, breaks his neck and dies! Pah, ridiculous. And then history repeats itself. Travers successfully defends another guilty man, realises too late, shoots him, gets away with it again – even though this time the shooting happens in the Old Bailey automobile park. Will Travers now be haunted by the ghost of the Scottish girl strangled by Newall, as well as the tiny boy?
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