The Good Life: With Richard Briers, Felicity Kendal, Penelope Keith, Paul Eddington. Tom Good quits the rat race, and with wife Barbara turns the garden of their Surbiton house into a smallholding. Their neighbours, snobbish Margo Leadbetter and her conv
In terms of 'the good life', the global evaluation of life by older people is directly influenced by virtue rather than success, with success being important insofar as it contributes to virtue. In short, older people deriving satisfaction from achieving things they consider to be worthwhile: ...
The Doughnut Burbs; (1) the Good Life: Surbiton , in Kingston (2) Best in Europe: Barking Town Square Will Be Snazzed Up with Tom Dixon Chandeliers (3) Family Affair: Viv Groskop with Her Children Will, Four, and Vera, Two, at Teddington Lock (4) Remarkable: Trent Country Park in ...
But here were two guileless citizens taking their innocuous exercise, and soon about to go indoors to a humdrum dinner, where they would talk of market prices and the last cricket scores and the gossip of their native Surbiton. I had been making a net to catch vultures and f...
“What are we going to do now? Well, we’re going to take speed and lay out a newspaper. It was systemised chaos. But a lot of us had learnt how to manage chaos in art school, and that gave us a nodding acquaintance with typesetting and a more than nodding acquaintance with ...
It seemed to Bert that the car swayed for a moment and then buck-jumped and kicked him. Also he saw the boots of the lady and the right leg of the gentleman describing arcs through the air, preparatory to vanishing over the side of the car. His impressions were complex, but they also...