Them and Us

Is anyone else enjoying the new series, ‘The Guest Wing’, on Sky Atlantic?

It’s fantastic to watch the nervous interaction between the classes.

One of the aristocrats truly believes that the aristocracy is far more likely to succeed at anything, because their gene’s have been interbred for generations and their choice of partners has been crucial to ensure that these pure strains have not been tainted by underlings. Webbed feet are perhaps a small price to pay for such an advantage

One of the terrace dwellers can’t believe that the lord he is talking to is just like a human being, wears real clothes and everything. Bet he doesn’t use a tin bath in front of an open fire though.

The aristocrat responds by treating us to his belief that two up-two downs are fabulous, he’s always loved them very much, and what really matters anyway is whether or not you’re happy where you live.

This reminded me of a large poster stuck on the back of an eccentric headmaster’s door. It featured a white Rolls Royce in front of a huge stately home, and carried the caption, “I have been rich, I have been poor. Rich is better!

I’m about a month from publishing my first novel, Open House, where the aristocrats have to open their doors to the terrace dwellers. This series is providing me with fabulous little gems to sprinkle on it.

It’s making me laugh writing it, but then again I laugh at most things.

Keep smiling!