I'm catching up on the overnight post but just wanted to say HOOOOOO BLUDDDY RAY the miserable cah didn't win it... tho it was a close call.. 
what a contrast tho ..the class of 2012 show made me remember why I loved the Great British Bake off .. not only was it full of really great baking, and I was salivating again and felt the baking urge come upon me but, most importantly it made me feel warm and fuzzy watching the contestants, even the blonde haired girl who'd wound me up last yr made me feel warm and fuzzy..
Turn to the final and never have I hated a final more than I did this one ..whoever edited the show wanted to make me feel increasingly stabby by interspersing Ruby's miserable face every second shot. . this whole season has been full of half bakers without any likeable personality's at all. . and nothing in the whole of the show inspired me to want to bake. .none of them were really that good at all.. not competition good, friends and family good maybe but not a match on last yrs lot..
Kimberly and Frances should get together. .at least one can cook decently and the other can design.. 
hope they getter better cooks and nicer people next yr so I can enjoy the show again..
rant over 
goes to read back to see if I am alone in my thinking 