The new rules of the Good Life (according to Harry and Meghan)
From the Sussexes chicken coops to making homemade jam, Shane Watson explains the dos and don’ts of ‘authentic’ 2021 living
12 March 2021 • 5:00am
Who knew that it would be The Good Life s Tom and Barbara that the Sussexes would emulate?
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Not sure which moment of the Oprah interview stood out for you but for many, I suspect, it was the cutaway to the Sussexes hanging out with Oprah in their very own chicken coop.
The coop wasn’t much to look at – what chicken coop is? – but it featured a plaque, “Archie’s Chick Inn Established 2021”, and we were told the animals are rescue hens (cute, caring) plus the coop established something very important: that Meghan and Harry are the kind of people who keep chickens. The kind of people who pull on their wellies and get stuck in to raising and rearing and growing. The kind of people who eat their own eggs (the whites at least, maybe not
How 2020 made us see things differently
From our perception of the countryside to going cooking crazy, the pandemic has meant we have all changed how we live
28 December 2020 • 6:00pm
Joe Wicks got the nation exercising and we turned our attention to baking, buying dogs and taking more than a passing interest in celebrity gossip
This was the year we acquired 2020 vision and learnt to look at everything differently. From the patch of grass outside the back door to frontline workers, from video conference calls to home schooling, we had to change the way we lived our lives for better or worse. Here are some of the ways that we’ll approach the new year differently, thanks to this one: