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I don't think he would be what producers would want on t.v. You can't understand him either. Those gold chairs were shown months ago again in a video relegated to a dump pile all dusty and forgotten. And he has been traveling extensively for months. So nope. I don't feel that Selmar has been a contributing element at the Shanty for a good long time. And most of his work is below par IMO.
Of course, my favorite squirrel
does not contribute anything to the Shanty either....
I'm getting tired of the Shatoo gang cleaning rooms and acting like they just completed one of the Labors of Hercules.
He said 'Oui' twice and muttered Chateau whilst pointing at the hay.
How to make a bed (in France), how to yank down old wallpaper (in France).....these things are not vlog worthy and stupidly uninteresting. They're wasting their time.
Who with a clear mind would do such a thing as that cadeauvlog..i would hate it...there are more ways to give to charity..instead of letting people send her even more crap for her already cluttered madhouse...that book and that fleacircus whats it called princess mouse?? thing...omg...quel horreur.. But Fan is a hoarder...the only thing she doesnt collect are probably knickers
Because they are featured on Chateau DIY this week ( in the uk), so are catering for hopeful new viewers from there. ( they mentioned this last week)
This actual business plan talk is of real importance.
So, @Le Comte de Monte Cristo, I took away from your last serving of the nitty gritty that a steady income from gites was more profitable than a B n B business. But you seem now to say gites alone are not enough, you think, to support a chateau? So, if I were interested in preserving the not-very-old or illustrious hunting lodge of the Fleuries -- or even their wonderful barns @Gibson is not the only diehard fan of -- my best bet for keeping them standing for another 200 years would be gites and not events/B n B? What other business should I diversify into?
Honestly I think Anna could make more money giving wallpaper workshops once she's got studio space out there (indoor event, could she charge ā¬2500 a pop, as much as Shrek and Fiona wanted to for their Disneybound cosplay workshops?). Phillip could do video workshops for the husbands. Don't know how profitable these are.
I keep going back to Dick and Angel, who repeatedly went over other chateau grifters' "business plans" -- pure
-- and told them that weddings are the only way to make the mortgage money. People tend not to flake on the date even if the weather is bad, etc. Plus I would guess the markup on cheap plonk and wildflowers is massive. (I have to say I FFd Edd and Anna in the new episode of Chateau DIY. She works so hard and he's such a pig.)I don't know if Brexit is going to affect this British fantasy wedding business in France, which is offensive to me on several grounds having to do with plantation colonialism. If the grifter chateau owners did anything for the locals, or learned French, or directed their guests to buy at local French businesses, I'd be a little less grossed out by the whole vampire wedding business.
I keep thinking how a worker cooperative laundry could work for the chateaux, organized and perhaps housed by the chatelaine, servicing local businesses and enriching its local worker-owners. Stuff like that. Rural France and the chateaux need real economic development plans -- what would work, all you business people? Fish farming? Workshops? George Sand [insert local French icon/hero] conferences? Digital download PDF wallpaper patterns or Tres Riches Heures needlepoint cell phone holder patterns?
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Check out Nina Campbells collaboration with Dreweatts for the sale of items from the Sitwells home, Weston Hall, to see how it should be done. Sadly too late for Steph and her young ward!
Sep 16, 2021
I posted the comment (above) back on 9/16ā¦looks like MPK might have taken the advice! His latest āChicken Vlogā included baby Ernest AND chickens, turkeys, and baby ducks! Kids and animals!KyBourbon said:
And another thingā¦(sorry, I canāt help it!)ā¦thereās also baby Ernest and now, baby Archie. And all the little animals and pets! Thatās a gold mine of content! The same viewers who love MPKās Spode, AGA, antique shopping, and jam also LOVE kids and animals. Why not set up and film your nephew, baby Ernest, on a picnic outdoors at the chateauā¦with a Peter Rabbit theme? Your fans would go wild! And throw in a few petsā¦itās like hitting the lotto!
I see things are not going as the charlataine wants it to go. Good.
What are Nutty's hopes and dreams for the future? Wasting her youth and life at a HMN? She's a competent human being, and she has a degree, she could get a job anywhere.
Oh no. We were after Biffy & Rien's queerbaiting banter. I do not want to see Dan do that with Armoire!
Right, you've forced me to watch Dan's video again
. Oops I've been "triggered" at 3 minutes in when he said shopping for some boys stuff (how very dare he!) Must have missed this first time round staring at Amore (soz). Mmm seems to focus his camera on Amore's arse a lot.... Can't say I got triggered by the man bun/bag saga. So basically I personally myself didn't go looking to be offended. Sorry not sorry. xxxxxx
, Sure.
That's reading rather a lot into a bit of typical British male banter. So Dan is a woman hater and in the closet?
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no i dont watch ETTCDIY.. we have it here too in the afternoon...my mother in law likes it a lott..Wow - thatās passive aggressive their retired ??? Fair play to them retiring in their 50s ā¦ a dream for most
they left their jobs - sold their home bought a dream a heap and renovated in 2 years on a savagely tight budget ā¦ guess you havenāt seen ETTC ā¦ or youād know
not
Never had a job
Bought a heap
Partial Reno over 16 years
Patron
duck all accomplished
flurries are they ānot retiredā -
Left their jobs
Bought a heap
Reno .. 2 years
guess it must be the Anglo / Franco situation ā¦ with you conte ā¦ yer really not feeling the Anglo s ,ā¦.,
but i guess there must be money somewhere...we also have something on tv here..its called.. Ik vertrek...meaning I leave..emigrating......renovating hotels, sometimes a chateau,....only the ones with a nice filled bankaccount servive...its not always mentioned in the show though.... And no i dont have Anglo blood... We bought our French house finished...i hate renovating..
I don't see them driving expensive cars or investing in their wardrobes or food. It's her talent to look effortlessly chic and expensive on a budget. I imagine they reserved some money for the renovation and kick-starting their B&B but now the money is gone and they didn't manage to be on budget. One guestroom and a kitchen left unfinished.
Philipp doesn't speak about his father. Maybe he has a chip on his shoulder and needs to show off? Chateau is a statement for sure
I love the phrase "Steph and her young ward",
Yep that is how I got with my sister. And actually on one of my last texts to her back in March was ," I am tired of playing these games". Narcs just wear you out. And they get away with "their games" for SO long with SO many people. I finally had to cut the cord. And for me it is a relief but sad as she is my only sister. My only brother ( I being in the middle) is finally getting his fill of her too...which for me, again, is a relief that he "gets it" now but also sad. My sister is the oldest. I wonder if narcissism is more common in the oldest sibling or just random???
Seriously? Then you are lucky when you only experienced open aggressiveness sofar-at least you can react to someone being directly aggressive and you know who your enemies are.
Arriving late instead of telling right away you can't make it and making you wait is stealing your time, the same like stealing your money.
Sulking and being sullen is plain annoying and is to make you fell guilty which steals alot of energy if you fall for it.
Procrastination and inefficiency - see Steph. Causes direct damage and delays your success, and again so stressful. The adult thing would be to tell right away that you can't do it and you could look for another person to do it. Same thing with forgetting things.
My MIL for example promised to send important letters regarding my visa to authorities which guaranteed that I can stay longer than 6 months outside of Germany (when living in USA). Long story short: she basically wrote (of course way too late, too) something like : my dil who is not supposed to leave Germany longer than 6 months left Germany for longer than 6 months... Later claimed that since she is an old woman (52 at that time!) and she didn't understand how urgent it was ( would lose unlimited right to stay in Germany, this was way before Croatia was in EU
) Such a lie because we made it so clear multiple times. Anyway her job was just to deliver a letter, nobody asked her to write an extra note explaining things
I learned my lesson not to trust anybody with important things...
And finally realised that she REALLY doesn't like me when even trying to get me kicked out of the country
That kind of china and silver, not my jam. But it is beautiful and desirable to others and if it were my job to sell it, honest to God I would have committed harakiri before putting such badly styled food on it, butchered with trademark bad knife work, such horrific tablecloth and flowers under/around. Who drinks wine with tea? Or asparagus? Errrrrghhhhhhhhhh.
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