of course you may tell our story.

As for it being hard work: it really isn't. But I suppose that's because it is habit. And we have to do it. There isn't enough money to live any differently.

A beetle bin is easy. We got the idea after watching carion beetles doing their thing on bones in the prep lab at the museum. You get wire worms from your local bait shop. Sometimes you have to go through three or four batches to get the ones that will become carion (am I spelling that right? It doesn't look right) beetles.

I am surprised that "The Good Life" is even known in the USA. Obviously the Goods are eccentric but the situation - typical middle-class south London suburbia - I would have thought was very much out of the US experience.