Lockdown in the lives of Giles and Mary: five hours of TV a

Lockdown in the lives of Giles and Mary: five hours of TV a day and too many arguments to count


Giles and Mary shot to fame in Channel 4's Gogglebox
Credit: John Lawrence/The Telegraph 
Has it really been a year since the word and the concept of “lockdown” entered the national vocabulary? A full 12 months have passed during which all the little everyday things we took for granted were suddenly banned.
It seems extraordinary, but somehow Britain adapted, and I think we should be rather proud of ourselves. We have discovered how to make do and put up with privations that would have previously been unthinkable; who could have guessed that lunching with friends, visiting family members or chatting in the supermarket would become illegal?

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