I can’t be the only person who has been watching The Edwardian Country House religiously. And I can’t be the only person for whom a great proportion of the attraction of the show has been Ken Skelton, the Hallboy.
Tonight’s episode was extraordinary and fascinating – collisions between staff and family – collisions between barely 20th and barely 21st Century life – collisions between the head of the household and the wonderful character of the astonishingly proficient, hard-working and idiosyncratic French cook. If this is a series that comes to the US, all Americans among our party should definitely invest the time…