No matter how old you get, or how long you've been working in an industry, it's incredible flattering when someone recognises what you do. When you work for yourself in quite a solitary field, it's heartening too, it makes you feel like what you do is valuable, somehow. That's a hard thing for anyone who... Continue Reading →
Opinion: Will Brexit Bugger Up My Home Renovation?
Ah Brexit. The topic sucking the life out of all of us in these first few months of 2019. Deal or No Deal headlines aside however, homeowners planning renovation works to their homes for this year and through into 2020 should to be aware of the need to plan ahead for their transformations. As the political landscape changes, so... Continue Reading →
Hotels – Please clean up your acts & ditch the single use plastics x
Travelling round the UK with work for the past six months has been fabulous in so many ways. We've seen places never visited before and stayed in some great Airbnbs and hotels, ambled past stunning Scottish lochs and eaten oysters on windy beaches. Lots of good stuff. But one thing has really irked me. Not... Continue Reading →
A Property TV Alternative: The Real Homes Show
It's ALL about the content these days isn't it? One side of my life is currently spend whizzing all over the country working on an 'actual' TV show - the new Your Home, Made Perfect for BBC2 this Spring. But something else is afoot. I've done a tonne of filming in the past couple of... Continue Reading →
New BBC2 Property Show for 2019: Your Home, Made Perfect
Whoop whoop! The brand new trailer for the show Mr M and I have been working on has gone live and I couldn't be more excited to finally see some of the green screen action everyone's been talking about! https://youtu.be/fRhAU7tpAmE We've been beavering away behind the scenes, racing up and down the motorway working with... Continue Reading →
Seafood Si : Mhor Fish, Callander, Scotland
As regular readers know, wherever we travel to with work - currently all over the UK on 15 different TV renovation projects - I ask pals to hit me up with suggestions for fabulous fish. There's gotta be some perks to be away from home right? However Si's seafood search can't be all gigantic seafood... Continue Reading →
Seafood Si : Crabbshack, Glasgow
"It'll just be a little detour" I promise him as we leave Stirling "Apparently there's a couple of nice stretches of water not far from here and we should be able to see a lot of it in an afternoon." That'll be me completely under-estimating the size of the Trossachs region and the 22 lochs.... Continue Reading →