Sky tv is generally filled to overflowing with shite..new shite, old shite......repeated shite.....its all the same..... but just occasionally it will come up with an old gem of a tv series that you almost forgotten that you enjoyed.
Two Fat Ladies, was a cracking watch, as , for me, it summed up everything that is great about Britain.
The programme was fronted by two English ecentrics. Spinster,devout Catholic, drinker, chain smoker and ex Ugandan legation cook, Jennifer Paterson was teamed with ex alcoholic, barrister , hunt em and shoot em Clarissa Dickson Wright.
Both women came from privileged backgrounds, both had suffered great hardship in their lives and both were blessed with a "spirit that won the war" mentality of "let's get on with it and let's not suffer any fools"...their programmes were a joy to watch as they unapologetically cooked cream filled food with painted fingernails, a cigarette slid carefully behind an ear and with a wardrobe that looked as though they had been dressed by Oxfam.
The video above, perhaps sums up their "Joie de vivre" better than any words
Paterson was especially entertaining, as she still was part of the "social set" in London and loved her dubonet, social gossip and holidays in the south of France when asked if she inherited her flair for cooking from her mother she said "My mother had no idea of how to cook and no wish to learn, existing on gorgonzola, coffee, and chocolates after the demise of any form of servant."
Their sucessful tv seies was cut short when Paterson became ill during filming and was diagnosed as having lung cancer. She deteriorated quickly and phoned Clarissa to bring her in some caviar into hospital but when her partner arrived, Paterson had sadly died.
Dickson Wright, however brought the caviar to Paterson's funeral, where she ate it as a tribute
....................................................................My kind of women!
