The answer to that question should be no. But sometimes it's simply too hard to resist.
I shouldn't really like Channel 4's Grand Designs, but I do.
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It's a smug show full of smug people, ploughing their solar-panelled, modernist self-build furrows across our green and pleasant land.
Except, I LOVE modern design with a passion. Something about stark, symmetrical lines really does it for me and Grand Designs really takes away some of the stigma (if there is such a thing) attached to modern architecture - it's people building homes for their families in a modern style, rather than just monoliths to look at.
But last night's programme was an example of how just about everything that can possibly go wrong with such a project.
Each week Grand Designs brings us big budgets and big dreams, but last night it brought with it even bigger disasters.
Last night's scale of ambition was hair-raising, as this week's couple Tiffany and Jonny set out to build a modern house on a steep hillside in heritage-heavy Bath.
The ground works alone were, as Kevin McCloud put it, "quite epic" but added to the storm were legal arguments as long as your arm, two architects and three builders speaking different languages. An ordeal that frankly was a joy to watch!
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