BBC's Antiques Roadshow

We no sooner said goodbye to the Suffolk Horses, here for the Spectacular, when the pantechnicons and huge tentage which is the BBC's Antiques Roadshow rumbled in. It starts with erecting tents on Monday, equipping them on Tuesday, technicians setting up on Wednesday, doing the Show on Thursday and everything going on Friday. 

Its one of those Events that we think will be fun to do when it is first proposed.  What will we feel like when the last vestige leaves on Friday ?  I hope we'll still be saying to ourselves "that was good fun". 

A frisson of disappointment ran through me today.  They want to do some filming of Kentwell to introduce the show.  They think that shots of our sheep which financed the building of the Hall and the Church would be a good thing.  I chuntered a bit. "When you filmed part of the Restoration series, you were here all day and spent hours filming the Hall and its brickwork and interviewing me with and without Griff Rees Jones. Then come the programme all you showed was our sheep. I hope you're not thinking of doing the same again."  But I suspect they are.  Perhaps we'd do better if I dressed as a sheep.