The Good Life is So Now

With To The Manor Born coming back to our screens last Christmas, it occurred to me that The Good Life couldn't be more ripe for a revival. Tom and Barbara are so now -- with their animal rearing, veggie-growing antics, they are an example to us all in sustainable living. It occurs to me that Tom, Barbara, Margot and Jerry are also fashion icons whose style wouldn't look amiss on the streets today.  That's why I've nicknamed the new jeans on my want list "Barbara": tight around the bottom and ever so slightly flared, they look like the sort of jean that Barbara would have chosen -- enhancing the pert derriere that so many teenage boys must have lusted after in Felicity Kendal's 1970's heydey.