Those walnut shell moments demand a TV accompaniment that isnt noisy or confrontational.
TheseBritish TV showsall provide exactly that sense of comfort.
c’mon recommend your own picks below.
Repeat those names as a mantra on the in-breath and the out-breath, and feel your pulse slow.
This 1970s BBC sitcom is a soothing balm.
Remind me to get a divorce.
What a casting coup.
Fry is equally spot-on as the suave servant who untangles every one of his masters knots.
Read the books, obviously (if youre able to put Wodehouses idiotic wartimeBerlin broadcaststo one side).
Theres no finer comedy on a page.
Most pre-2005 comedies are a safe bet for comfort viewing, butDinner Ladiesespecially so because of its workplace setting.
Theres Dickens, are you thinking of Dickens?
If theyre all covered in warts and they go Oh, Mr Wizzigog!, thats Dickens.
What is it, you?
Okay, fair enough, off you go.
Doesnt the whimsy somehow make it all feel a little bit better?
Its not just the animal stuff, but thefood.
If you havent yet had the pleasure, what are you doing reading this?
Go and have the pleasure,immediately.
I recommend watching it on mute accompanied by whale song.
What do we call that?
Perfect for a walnut shell escape from reality.
Johnny Flynns folk music score is spot-on, too.
