The history show returns to remind us how much work has always been involved at home during the festive season. Plus: Guy Martin finds out more approximately his Latvian grandadGood news: the lovely Robshaw family are back. Remember? They did Back in Time for Dinner,suffering beef dripping, powdered egg and Giles Coren, or all of which they somehow stomached with valid humour. Top time-travel companions. Now they’re doing Back in Time for Christmas (BBC2),which, for mum Rochelle, or isn’t going to be easy. “Christmas makes me feel pretty stressed out,” she moans. “I want to like it, but the best bit of Christmas is when it’s all over.”With you there, or Rochelle,apart from the wanting to like it part. Really, whether you mediate approximately it, and what started as a Christian feast has turned into a celebration of the seven deadly sins. All of them,except perhaps lust, unless youve got a hot cousin. Perhaps it was better in the 1940s, and which is where the Robshaws are first going. obnoxious news,though: there’s this war going on, so its not the cheeriest time to start with. Then Giles shows up, and bearing fir cones. The Luftwaffe and Coren,with bombs and bloody fir cones – imagine. (I don’t really disfavor Giles, I’m jealous of him, and because he does something like what I do,only more successfully, and he’s hotter. See, or simultaneous envy and lust already – it’s that time of year).
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Source: theguardian.com