Colour blinded
It’s funny how easy it is to go from liking and admiring someone to actively avoiding them. Take, for argument’s sake, Jamie Oliver, and you might see what I mean. What started as a fun and fresh cookery series soon threatened to dominate our TV screens, high streets and bookshop shelves. And then, when it began to get a bit boorish and preachy, we suspect lots of people switched off. I know I did.
If you’re in the VW scene and noted Jamie’s ‘struggles’ with the purple and white 23-window Split on his series Exploring Italy, you probably switched the TV off at that point, too.
The bottom line is, when you ask too much of what amounts to a 50-year-old vehicle and then throw your teddy out of the pram when things don’t go
