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  1. I work for Channel 4 television, and we are currently producing a series on family life in the UK.

    We are very keen to speak to fun loving families who stay fit and healthy by climbing and walking in
    the British Countryside. The type of families that I'm thinking of are people who are active and
    robust but who also appreciate the natural beauty surrounding them and the benefits of the quality
    time spent with their family around the campsite and remote bed and breakfasts.

    This is the third series of the documentary series, called Wifeswap. If you haven't seen it, in each
    programme the mothers of two families trade places for ten days and take on each other's life. For
    the first five days, the women have to run their new homes according to the rules of the house. But
    in the second week, the new wife gets to implement her own house rules. This may mean that the
    husbands now have to try to live healthier lifestyles, see more of the great outdoors, help with the
    housework and spend more time with the children. Each programme concludes with the two couples being
    reunited and a discussion about their experiences of the swap.

    If you think that you might be able to help with our search, then I would love to hear from you.
    Perhaps you know some great families yourself, or know where I would be able to get into contact
    with them. It would also be fantastic if you could send an appeal out to your local club members.

    My contact details are 0207 013 4264, [email hidden]

    Thanks for your time,

    Tom Williams

  2. In message <[email hidden]>, Channel 4
    <[email hidden]> writes

    Quoted message said:

    I work for Channel 4 television, and we are currently producing a series on family life in the UK.

    We are very keen to speak to fun loving families who stay fit and healthy by climbing and walking
    in the British Countryside. The type of families that I'm thinking of are people who are active and
    robust but who also appreciate the natural beauty surrounding them and the benefits of the quality
    time spent with their family around the campsite and remote bed and breakfasts.

    This is the third series of the documentary series, called Wifeswap.


    Your welcome to my ex-wife.

    --
    Martin Richardson
    216/284 Munros (34/34 'Furths'😉
    217/89 Donalds 397/1552 Marilyns 439/439 Nuttalls

  3. [email hidden] (Channel 4) wrote in
    :"]news:[email hidden]:

    Quoted message said:

    I work for Channel 4 television, and we are currently producing a series on family life in the UK.

    We are very keen to speak to fun loving families who stay fit and healthy by climbing and walking
    in the British Countryside. The type of families that I'm thinking of are people who are active
    and robust but who also appreciate the natural beauty surrounding them and the benefits of the
    quality time spent with their family around the campsite and remote bed and breakfasts.

    This is the third series of the documentary series, called Wifeswap. If you haven't seen it, in
    each programme the mothers of two families trade places for ten days and take on each other's
    life. For the first five days, the women have to run their new homes according to the rules of the
    house. But in the second week, the new wife gets to implement her own house rules. This may mean
    that the husbands now have to try to live healthier lifestyles, see more of the great outdoors,
    help with the housework and spend more time with the children. Each programme concludes with the
    two couples being reunited and a discussion about their experiences of the swap.

    If you think that you might be able to help with our search, then I would love to hear from you.
    Perhaps you know some great families yourself, or know where I would be able to get into contact
    with them. It would also be fantastic if you could send an appeal out to your local club members.

    My contact details are 0207 013 4264, [email hidden]

    Thanks for your time,

    Tom Williams

    Can't help but am wondering why you think the hillwalking community is a likely source of "wifeswap"
    candidates?

    --
    Adrian

  4. "Adrian Tupper" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    "]news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:


    Can't help but am wondering why you think the hillwalking community is a likely source of
    "wifeswap" candidates?

    --
    Adrian


    If you have seen the programme you will realise it is just tacky television where people with fixed
    views, who do not understand the meaning of the word compromise and who want publicity, get to argue
    on a public forum.

    In this particular case he will want to pair up couch potatoes with fitness fanatics so that they
    can wind each other up.

    He is probably advertising on other groups to match up drinkers with teetotallers, atheists with the
    strongly religious and Daily Mail readers with Guardian readers.

    Regards

    Bernard

  5. Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    Adrian


    If you have seen the programme you will realise it is just tacky television where people with fixed
    views, who do not understand the meaning of the word compromise and who want publicity, get to
    argue on a public forum.

    No wonder he went to Usenet!

    Richard Webb

  6. Bob Mannix <[email hidden]> wrote

    Quoted message said:


    Quoted message said:

    He is probably advertising on other groups to match up drinkers with teetotallers, atheists with
    the strongly religious and Daily Mail readers with Guardian readers.

    As a drinking, atheistic Guardian reader, I object strongly to the first/second ordering of the
    third pair of possible descriptions!


    Here here! I can profile a Daily Mail reader for you, one who reads it from cover to cover over
    breakfast every day, then regales us with the latest illegal immigrant scandal over lunch!

    He must be around a a half-millionaire, yet he chooses the Pensioners' £4.50 two course meal every
    week, while I go for a 10oz rump steak or similar. Not only that, he brings only a five pound note
    out to cover the meal and tip, so when he found the price had gone up to £4.95 he had only 5p for
    the bloody tip, and the poor waitress lost out, even though we chipped in a bit extra......

    Thassa Mail reader!
    --
    Gordon

  7. Ian Dainty <[email hidden]> wrote

    Quoted message said:

    "Bernard" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]

    Quoted message said:

    If you have seen the programme you will realise it is just tacky television where people with
    fixed views, who do not understand the meaning of the word compromise and who want publicity, get
    to argue on a public forum.

    So is Question Time.


    I had to stop watching that when I was diagnosed with high BP. :-)
    --
    Gordon

  8. "Martin Richardson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    "]news:[email hidden]

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    This is the third series of the documentary series, called Wifeswap.


    Your welcome to my ex-wife.

    And all three of mine. Especially number 2 who is rather a financial drain.

    TIA.

    Ian.

    --
    Posted via Mailgate.ORG Server - mailgate.orgmailgate.org

  9. "Bernard" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    "]news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:


    "Adrian Tupper" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    "]news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:


    Can't help but am wondering why you think the hillwalking community is a likely source of
    "wifeswap" candidates?

    --
    Adrian


    If you have seen the programme you will realise it is just tacky


    television

    Quoted message said:

    where people with fixed views, who do not understand the meaning of the


    word

    Quoted message said:

    compromise and who want publicity, get to argue on a public forum.

    In this particular case he will want to pair up couch potatoes with


    fitness

    Quoted message said:

    fanatics so that they can wind each other up.

    He is probably advertising on other groups to match up drinkers with teetotallers, atheists with
    the strongly religious and Daily Mail readers with Guardian readers.

    As a drinking, atheistic Guardian reader, I object strongly to the first/second ordering of the
    third pair of possible descriptions!

    --
    Bob Mannix (anti-spam is as easy as 1-2-3 - not)

  10. "Bernard" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    "]news:[email hidden]

    Quoted message said:

    If you have seen the programme you will realise it is just tacky television where people with
    fixed views, who do not understand the meaning of the word compromise and who want publicity, get
    to argue on a public forum.

    So is Question Time.

    --
    Posted via Mailgate.ORG Server - mailgate.orgmailgate.org

  11. "Bernard" <[email hidden]> wrote in
    :"]news:[email hidden]:

    Quoted message said:


    "Adrian Tupper" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    "]news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:


    Can't help but am wondering why you think the hillwalking community is a likely source of
    "wifeswap" candidates?

    --
    Adrian


    If you have seen the programme you will realise it is just tacky television where people with
    fixed views, who do not understand the meaning of the word compromise and who want publicity, get
    to argue on a public forum.

    In this particular case he will want to pair up couch potatoes with fitness fanatics so that they
    can wind each other up.

    He is probably advertising on other groups to match up drinkers with teetotallers, atheists with
    the strongly religious and Daily Mail readers with Guardian readers.

    I suspect that pairing baggers with scenic walkers is just a bit too subtle for him.

    --
    Adrian

  12. Quoted message said:

    And all three of mine. Especially number 2 who is rather a financial

    Sounds like you collect wives like Martin collects Peaks!

    --
    Sandy Saunders @ www.thewalkzone.co.uk

    'Mountains or Mole Hills ... summiting still brings
    the same excitement'

  13. sandy saunders <[email hidden]> wrote

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:


    And all three of mine. Especially number 2 who is rather a financial

    Sounds like you collect wives like Martin collects Peaks!


    The words "Paul" and "cameras" spring to mind, often in the same context.
    --
    Gordon

  14. In message <[email hidden]>, sandy saunders
    <[email hidden]> writes

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:


    And all three of mine. Especially number 2 who is rather a financial

    Sounds like you collect wives like Martin collects Peaks!


    As far as I can remember I only got married twice - although there were other brush-livings-over
    that ended up feeling the same. At least the peaks don't take your house off you.

    If I had my life again, I would not bother getting married - I would save time by finding someone I
    didn't like, buying a house and giving it to them.

    --
    Martin Richardson
    216/284 Munros (34/34 'Furths'😉
    217/89 Donalds 397/1552 Marilyns 439/439 Nuttalls

  15. Adrian Tupper said:

    I suspect that pairing baggers with scenic walkers is just a bit too subtle for him.

    Or even pairing walkers who carry cameras with photographers who walk. ;-)

    Paul
    --
    wilderness-wales.co.ukwilderness-wales.co.uk
    wildwales.fsnet.co.ukwildwales.fsnet.co.uk
    photosig.comuserphotos

  16. Martin Richardson <[email hidden]> wrote

    Quoted message said:


    If I had my life again, I would not bother getting married - I would save time by finding someone I
    didn't like, buying a house and giving it to them.


    It's not too late, you swine!
    --
    Gordon

  17. "Paul Saunders" <[email hidden]> wrote in news:c0jd88$ash$1
    @newsg3.svr.pol.co.uk:

    Quoted message said:
    Adrian Tupper said:

    I suspect that pairing baggers with scenic walkers is just a bit too subtle for him.

    Or even pairing walkers who carry cameras with photographers who walk. ;-)

    Both types seem rather unusual to me!

    --
    Adrian

  18. On 11 Feb 2004 02:04:09 -0800, [email hidden] (Channel 4)

    Quoted message said:

    I work for Channel 4 television, and we are currently producing a series on family life in the UK.

    My contact details are 0207 013 4264, [email hidden]

    Thanks for your time,

    Tom Williams

    A rather late follow-up but I may be the one responsible for this!. We received that email on our
    website and since we watch very little TV, we had never heard of the programme. I sent a courteous
    reply and received a further email asking for suggestions about how to spread the word, so I
    suggested this NG. Actually it might be interesting if we did take part - a city-type lady and me
    pitching the tent on some mountain with a cameraman. The mind boggles...

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