Country Life

The Nutty Idyll

Giles and Mary swapped city life for rural Wiltshire over thirty years ago, and they've each embraced it in their own very different ways, making them the ideal team to guide you through the pros and cons, wherever you sit on the Town vs Country debate.

Here they sift through the unhelpful dreamy myths and offer their own two-handed practical reality. In robust back and forth exchange, they dissect the positives and negatives on every aspect of life in rural outposts, including but not limited to planning wars, class wars, dog thefts, bargain hunting, ghost hunting, misunderstandings between incomers and natives and the role of the Heron Appreciation Society.

The much-loved Wiltshire couple share their combined, hard-earned lessons, so we can find our own way towards a new contented country life.