Escape to the Chateau is the Channel 4 TV show that has become the definition of runaway success. Following Dick and Angel Strawbridge and their two children, as they move to France to live in a French chateau, the series shows the family renovating their new home entirely themselves, thus earning their stripes as TV DIY heroes.
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Oh dear. I don’t know why I did this, rashly, the evening of 29 February. Leap Day. I took a leap. Maybe because I have a completion date on the vicarage looming and I need help, someone to share it with, and who is willing to change light bulbs*, heave boxes and dog-sit. Cook.