Escape to the Country (2002 – present)

You could call it one of our (not so) guilty pleasures: four nights a week we watch this series from the BBC on CTV Life channel. It’s in its 24th season in the UK, but we’re still in season 23, here in Canada.

But what’s the point of our watching this program? It’s not as if (at our time of life) we’re going to move to the UK. Well, maybe not, but it’s necessary to still dream a little, no matter what our ages might be.

The Norfolk Broads, as name-checked by David Bowie in his song, is an area of the UK I never visited when I lived there for 22 years. Susan, on the other hand, visited it with her family in the early 1960’s.

That’s one heck of a lot of waterways. If we go back for a visit, some day, I should like to go there.

That would be my Escape to the Country.