I’m really enjoying the BBC 2 series “It’s not easy being green” (you can even watch clips of past episodes on the website, I just love BBC online!). I’ve been a massive fan of Dick Strawbridge ever since he was a team captain on Scrapheap Challenge. Anyone with facial hair that bushy just has to be a hero in my opinion. I like the way its focused on environmentally friendly living without getting too Hebden Bridge* about it all, and I love Dicks enthusiastic presenting style. But most of all I think I like the fact that whoever chooses the incidental music for it obviously has a very similar CD collection to my own. I’m constantly recognising various instrumental bits from Ben Folds, Barenaked Ladies and Damian Rice and it makes me feel all superior that I know where they’ve come from. Shallow? Me?
* A note for the uninitiated (i.e. anyone who doesn’t live or work in Halifax). Hebden Bridge is a small town in Yorkshire that is renowned for its liberalism and population of aging hippies and people with alternative lifestyles. It’s the kind of place where everyone you see is wearing some outlandishly bizzarre woolly hat with pom-poms and earflaps. Or stripy tights. There are probably more organic cafe’s than newsagents. It’s been voted the fourth funkiest place on earth apparently.
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Hi,
My name is Babbs, I love your show and my husband and children do to.
We are saving all our money to eventually go green as well.
Living most of my life in Oz I’m used to alot of green ideas, we are big on that there.
Anyway my greatest thanks for doing a great show and I look forward for when your programe goes on sale so I can buy it.
Take care
Babbs
Hi
I’m not actually any part of the show, I just wrote about it once in my blog and the BBC picked up on it and put a quote from my post on their website.
Sorry.
lol…thats cool…thanks for letting me know.
Cheers
B
love the show but where did he get his heating tubes so cheap from and his windpower