Mature visitors to our shelves may remember the British 70s sitcom The Good Life, wherein Tom and Barbara Good got off the corporate treadmill and began a life of self-sufficiency in Surbiton, complete with pigs, chickens and an irascible goat called Geraldine – much to the initial dismay of their neighbours Margo and Jerry. Their mistakes and adventures were many and hilarious but always on an upward learning curve. Here, Sue Perkins and Giles Coren (Supersizers Go... series) live the good life as an experiment of modern day self sufficiency and have a go at growing and cooking veggies; pottery; baking bread; building a chook run; generating power; how to choose and keep a pig; making Christmas decorations and keeping bees – all a la Tom and Barbara. There’s recipes, herbal remedies and how-tos in plenty with coloured photographs.