Monday
The week starts with Penelope Keith, sad news of whose death on Monday sends everyone over the age of 40 screeching back to her greatest hits – and they really were great, weren’t they? There are those sitcom characters from the late 1970s who have more or less faded from view – if I try really hard, I can just about summon the image of Wendy Craig and Geoffrey Palmer in Butterflies – but the Good Life never waned, remaining as stubbornly embedded in the national memory as Fawlty Towers, Dad’s Army and the winter of discontent.
