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One of my favourite TV programmes lately is a British series entitled The Repair Shop, where people bring in broken old objects of various kind - often family heirlooms - to be repaired and restored to their former glory by a team of experts, each with their own speciality (and loving their job!)
The past few days, on my main TV channels, most of the regular programmes seem to have been exchanged for constant and repeated updates and discussions of the increasingly despressing situation in Ukraine. Which of course deserves to be in focus; but when there is very little one can actually "do" about it, from time to time one can also feel overloaded by all the speculations to a degree where one is no longer able to take in any more...
Then I've sometimes switched to The Repair Shop (on the "play" channel where it's found here), catching up with missed episodes. Today, I watched one where they were repairing an old broken globe. It felt rather therapeutic watching a careful and loving healing process of the planet, rather than attempts to destroy it.
You are making a very fitting and wonderful analogy there, Monica.
ReplyDeleteThanks Meike :)
Deletethings like this are really interesting, Bob watches a lot of shows like this, not this one but like it..
ReplyDeleteSandra, another refreshing difference I noted with this programme (compared to others dealing with antiques which I also enjoy watching) was that they don't talk about the value in money at all, only about what these objects mean to their owners.
DeleteI would love to watch this show! And of course we need a break from the 24/7 war news. We have the BBC channel, but it doesn't show this.
ReplyDeleteGinny, I think it is a BBC programme but I've been watching it on a Swedish channel. What I've been watching now seems to be season 3 - if they've shown the previous two before, I missed those. (Nor do I know if they will continue with the rest of the series, but I hope so.)
DeleteI have watched the show on occasions. It's wonderful to see how much work goes into restoring much-loved objects, and the owner's pleasure when they see the results.
ReplyDeleteAs to the news, I have mostly resisted watching it on TV, but am following events on the BBC website. For the moment TV programmes remain the same, and we still have a good selection.
CG, here in Sweden we've continued to have lots of extra newscasts all weekend, on the radio as well as TV.
DeleteI think that's an excellent reminder to us all that it is far more satisfying to mend than to break. I have stopped watching the news for the time being. That is the first time I can ever recall doing that because I have always been a bit of a news junkie.
ReplyDeleteThanks Graham - you seem to get my point :) I haven't stopped watching all news but on the whole I find the regular news updates to be as much as I can take. All the extra "speculations" by various political commentators (or from people on the street) don't always feel helpful.
DeleteWe have it here too, it's a favourite, all of the people on it are so clever
ReplyDeleteAmy, I just discovered there is a Swedish version of The Repair Shop as well, so now I'm watching that! (Having finished the British season available...)
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