We’re re-watching The Good Life. It’s a lot gentler and rather more ‘situation’ than ‘comedy’ than might you remember, but it’s still an easy wind-down at the end of the day (and three of the characters, of course, were the inspiration for the names of our chickens).

The Guardian today has imagined the discussions that went on at the BBC when they were pitching the story, and pretty much shows us why self-sufficiency might be considered a bit silly in this day and age.

Stupid non-hippy hippy gives up a perfectly respectable job in order to become a horny-handed son of toil. Instead of trotting out to nearest, lovely, convenient supermarket for the week’s food, he wants to ignore 800 years of human effort, innovation and ­ingenuity – bringing us agonisedly to a point in history where we are finally free of the necessity of constant labouring for survival – and go back to growing his own instead? (full text on The Guardian)

But then perhaps vegetarianism is a bit silly, too. Humankind didn’t fight its way to the top of the food chain to eat leaves. Not that I’m going to go back to meat now.

I’ve embedded this Good Life clip before, but it still makes me laugh

Related posts:

1. End of The Good Life
2. How to Live a Simple Life
3. Free self-sufficiency classes