Meet: The New Phil & Kirstie

Fuel and food prices are on the up, house prices are on the slide and the papers are full of features telling us all how to atone for our ten-year credit binge and mega splurge down the shops.

Now, it seems, is the time to make do and mend, to grow yer own, to reduce, reuse, and recycle.

But if Phil & Kirstie were the cheery faces of the property boom, who will advise us on how to live with the downturn?

(Pic ©  Press & Publicity, Durham County Council.)

Step forward – or, if you prefer, trot into the limelight astride your rather lovely mule – Chris Jones and Louisa Gidney, Principal Peasant and Associate Peasant at … Rent A Peasant: Living History With Livestock.

These, I feel sure, are the people to teach us the skills we will need to survive in a credit crunched, eco degraded world.

Stuff like how to look good in a smock, how to play the hurdy gurdy, how to eat a turnip, and how to sing a song with the words hey nonny nonny in the chorus.

Ah but won’t life be grand when we’ve all had a peasant makeover … thatch and cob, flagons o’ cider, rosy cheeked lassies a-rollin in the ryegrass, “All Around My Hat” as the new national anthem …

If you’re a producer out there in TV la, la land you’d better move quick if you want to snap ‘em up (the mule, Frances, is clearly a star in the making).

I’ve even thought of a title for the programme … Rotation, Rotation, Rotation.

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