AGS Success at Chelsea 2008 !!

[David Pilling]

The interactive bits changeover each day at 7pm
...the segments from the AGS will reappear on Saturday.... worth a look.

So that would be 7pm Saturday until possibly midnight Sunday.

[ChrisB]

Nice to know the LLB's read this forum then..... look forward to Carole's walkabout to the AGS stand.  Don't know whether hubby will tolerate another hour of her though....

[johnw]

This message just in from Mrs L. Llewelyn-Bowen.... she assures us that her husband likes his sleeves to be too long, and the shirt is made from a tablecloth, not curtains.....she also points out that her husband  has made a b****y good living out of looking this foppish, so I suppose the the LLBs have the last laugh!

Oh he just needs a good cuff.

johnw

[David Pilling]

..... look forward to Carole's walkabout to the AGS stand.  Don't know whether hubby will tolerate another hour of her though....

You have to spot Arisaema sikokianum (easy), which is the first thing shown on the AGS display, CK says something like "everyone likes this" without naming it, does a lap of the stand, finally coming back to the plant and saying what it is.

[Greenmanplants]

Having finally finished the Breakdown/Unload at 1.30am this morning, I've managed to put a few extra images up on the site now.

Hope you enjoy them.

There could be more later of plant portraits if time allows. 

I'm trying to catch up with everything else.  What happened to May!

Oh yes, I spent 6 hours a day in a Luton getting to or waiting to get into a showground.

Cheers and thanks for your comments.

John H

[Joakim B]

Fermi I also liked the "run" between the the Prince and the Aussie. I am not sure the Aussie is to be trusted and not just looking for publicity, but he the comments from the people who read it was also amazing.

Kind regards
Joakim

[Maggi Young]

John, lovely to see more pictures on the AGS Chelsea page. Thanks again for all your hard work and to the other volunteers who made such a great display... I hope you get a chance to have some peace and quiet at least for the last week of May!

[Carlo]

Congrats to the team! Just returned from Windsor (but DIDN'T get to Chelsea) and did see a photo of the exhibit in the weekend Financial Times along with a review of the show...

[David Pilling]

did see a photo of the exhibit in the weekend Financial Times along with a review of the show...

The review is online at:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/732168b6-2796-11dd-b7cb-000077b07658.html

but does not include the AGS photo which is in the printed paper.

[Lesley Cox]

So who IS LL-B?

[ranunculus]

Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen (born 11 March 1965 in London) is an English interior designer and television personality best known for his appearances on the BBC television programme Changing Rooms. He is noted for his flamboyant personality and for affecting a dandyish appearance. He is sometimes credited as "Laurence Llewelyn Bowen" [1], and the components of his name are frequently misspelled "Llewellyn" [2] and/or "Lawrence" [3].

Educated at Alleyn's School in Dulwich, Laurence graduated from the Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts in 1986 with a Fine Art degree. He subsequently worked for the Harefield Group of Companies and the interior design firm Peter Leonard Associates. In 1989 he started his own design consultancy. His wife Jackie, an author, had heard through her agent that a production company was searching for a designer and in 1996 he appeared on the first episode of Changing Rooms. He and his wife have two daughters Cecile (born 1995) and Hermione (born 1998).

He has also presented a three-part BBC special Taste (2002), about the history of interior design, and in autumn 2005 he began presenting the weekly BBC1 travel show Holiday 2006. His books include Fantasy Rooms: Inspirational Designs from the BBC Series (1999), Display (2001), "Home Front": Inside Out (2002), Design Rules (2003) and A Pinch of Posh (2006) co-written with his wife, Jackie. He has also made a guest appearance on Changing Rooms' American counterpart, Trading Spaces.

In March 2005 he starred in a one-off mockumentary as a prospective candidate for Parliament. His party, the Purple Party, "lobbied" for a restoration of Britain's heritage, and several extreme architectural measures such as tearing down all buildings that did not conform to their surroundings.

In January 2006, he and his wife Jackie were offered a place on the Valentine's Day celebrity couples edition of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. They appeared on the show managing to reach the £1 million question, before answering wrongly and losing £468,000. For the first time ever, Celador let Laurence and his wife retry the show after the company claimed that the last question "didn't meet their standards". After returning and being shown a different £1 million question, the couple decided not to risk losing £468,000 for the second time, and won £500,000 for their chosen charity, The Shooting Star Foundation, of which Laurence and his wife are both patrons. This amount is the highest that any celebrity couple has won on any British edition of Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?. The £468,000 they originally lost was also the greatest loss ever seen on the show, and to date, no other contestant has answered the final question incorrectly. The allegedly misleading question was "Translated from the Latin, what is the United States motto?". The answer given was "In God we trust" which is original English and has in fact been the US motto since 1956. The intended answer had been "Out of many, one" which is a translation of the Latin phrase E Pluribus Unum, which is not actually the current United States motto.

In November 2007 he and his family were featured in the Living TV series To The Manor Bowen. The designer created a line of wallpaper in collaboration with the British Home Decor Company Graham & Brown. He used this collection of wallpaper to decorate his home that was featured in the television series. This is the newest of two wallpaper collections with Graham & Brown. [4]

In December 2007 he and his family took part in the ITV1 game show All Star Family Fortunes.

Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen and his wife Jackie are ambassadors to the aid agency CARE International UK and in February 2008 visited the cyclone-hit areas of Bangladesh.

Laurence and wife Jackie are also active patrons for children's cancer charity CLIC Sargent.

He is known as "Larry" to his friends, in homage to his great hero Laurence Olivier.

[ranunculus]

You DID ask Lesley!!   

[Lesley Cox]

So I did. And learned much more than I needed to know. Now you mention it all, I do vaguely remember the name from the Changing Rooms series which we used to get ad nauseum, UK then Australian then our own equally cruddy version. (Currently we are getting the Home Improvement, Property Development genre. TVNZ no longer recognises - if they ever did - that anyone who has a brain and even those who don't, don't need 10 versions of the same programme, viewed night after night after boring night. Thank God we have good bookshops and an excellent library service.)

Perhaps the best thing about the above-mentioned gent, is his birthday.

[David Nicholson]

    you got it in one Lesley. Why is it, these days, that the television and newspaper industries, seemingly across the world, see their audiences as having the brain of an amoeba and the attention span of a gnat?

[mark smyth]

am I the only one who LIKES the way L L-B dresses?