I LOVE watching House Invaders on morning TV when I can -- but it astounds me how much materials the householders keep in their sheds.

The team are supposed to arrive and only use the goods they find on the premises to give three rooms a new look.

Appropriately there are always clean gallon pots of the right coloured emulsion, loads of matching cloth and unused wood, doors and MDF.

Come off it.

If they went into my garage or shed all they'd find would be rusty, crusty old tins of dried up paint with half an inch of gunge in the bottom, old bits of rotting wood that have been there since Adam was a lad - and binbags of unnecessary ironing I couldn't be bothered to do.

Designer Linda Barker would have to bring a designer kit the size of a removal wagon, not the placcy bag of appropriately fitting bits and bobs she carries out at the end.

It's so obvious that people buy loads of new stuff once they've been selected for the show.

I don't know why they bother trying to convince us that they're just recycling old stuff when its so evident they aren't. Good though.