First thing–I don’t hate Jeremy Till. He is a very nice guy. It’s just that I read his book during the final stages of writing an article and it changed the way I thought about my topic which I didn’t want to happen. It’s not his fault: it was mine for reading it.
The reason I bring his name up in vain again is that I gave a talk today to Part 3 students in Architecture. This is where budding architects are exposed to legal, professional and managerial aspects of their future careers. After this they are independent architects. As part of the course I am asked to give the “client’s perspective” especially as I have a television programme to back it up.
So I entitled my talk, “Why I hate Jeremy Till”: reasons being:
- He trained the architects who designed my house.
- Somehow or other he got people interested in a fiendishly complex heating and hot water system made by Viessman which only one set of plumbers in Kent know how to fix. Moreover, the bloody thing could probably supply the entire neighbourhood.
- His own house made an early appearance on Grand Designs.
- And of course he wrote that bloody (but very good) book.