Jerry says he has a ”yen” for Barbara. It is as you guessed, a variant on yearning. Bit wistful.

Within limits (I believe 2 metres now but who knows then) I think Margo can put up a *back* garden fence without planning permission. Is a windbreak even covered by fence rules? IDK. But it’s just like the Goods didn’t have to get *her* permission to dig up their garden or keep livestock.

In Margo’s case, as you point out, she doesn’t have a drawing room. Only a living room or lounge (I was taught only hotels have lounges, but it’s obviously archaic to think that now). Historically the *with*drawing room was where the ladies went after dinner for tea & gossip leaving the men to brandy & cigars & deeper discussions. (Yeah, right) It is basically a lounge in our terms though.

There’s no way that champagne, sitting out on a table like that, is properly chilled anyway. So it’s just as well they don’t drink it. Btw, as far as I can see nothing has ever been proven re Ted Heath.

People like Jerry, ”executives” as Margo likes to say, didn’t (& often still don’t) join unions.

Pretty sure the doctor undoes Tom’s trousers to ensure his waistband isn’t impeding his ability to move for her tests.

I think the total refusal to earn any money is a daft plot point. I know it’s just supposed to be funny, but irl Tom’s ability to *occasionally* earn some money would be extremely useful & shouldn’t be seen as a betrayal of the lifestyle. Also buying Barbara jewellery is particularly stupid; when is she ever going wear it?

Erm, isn’t the suggestion that the meat in Jerry’s curry is not good lamb, chicken or whatever, a bit of casual racism of your own? I thought we were past the time when it was ok to say things like this. There’s absolutely no reason to think the food Jerry has brought home isn’t a very decent standard, even if actual curry houses might have been harder to find back then.

IIRC early elec toothbrushes were on a cord and plugged into the shaver sockets some bathrooms had. So not cordless as later, or run on a battery, which I think was the intermediate step.

Barbara’s bread prop is the WORST ever. I know it’s supposed to be funny but it doesn’t look like any loaf ever & was clearly made by someone who never made a loaf of bread or even saw one taken out of the oven.

Margo’s muumuus were a big 70s thing - even my Mum had one - and were universally called kaftans.

Mr Carter not backing Margo up means she probably can’t do much going forward to obstruct the Goods. Modern houses like mine (1993) often come with strings such as a prohibition on keeping ”fowl” in the deeds, but houses of Good Life era (20s?) would probably have *assumed* a level of desire to garden for food & keep chickens &c, so not carried the same rules.

The Leadbetters (& the Goods) both come from a group of people who at the time would have claimed to watch little to no TV other than the news. It was something the middle classes said a lot. T & B might watch the odd BBC drama, but like his ”low class” music, Jerry would rarely be allowed any & I suspect Margo would genuinely not watch at all. Except the news.

Tom calls the cockerel Lenin because when it refuses to leave the crate, he says it’s a bolshie - ie Bolshevik. Bolshie is generally used - or was - to mean someone who won’t do as they are told (by their betters, is the unspoken bit). I am not entirely sure Tom is really very left wing. All four of them clearly come from some level of money, as you can tell by future references to schools & their ability to have a house fully paid for at 40. I think Tom would vote Liberal

So far so good! Done with episode 2