It’s official, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has one of the best jobs ever and I’m jealous of his Good Life existence. He gets to hang out in beautiful countryside, grow his own everything and have barbecues and get togethers in said beautiful countryside.

He also gets ample time to work on his puns which were as plentiful as his herbs in last night’s show and went from an extensive overuse of ‘pea’ puns during pea harvesting which included “recipeas” and “give peas a chance” to sheep shearing puns such as “we’re baaaaaaaarbers”. Very droll, but there’s no question that Hugh inspires the desire to be a smallholder and to grow and produce lovely food and wine… but there’s just one problem for me; it all requires effort and time. Read more & comment »