The Diary of Two Nobodies

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Before Gogglebox, Giles Wood and Mary Killen could never have believed that the intricacies of their marriage of opposites would be aired before millions. Instead it’s a year in their life from which they use the events that happen to them as a stimulus to describe their view on the world, each other and their relationship.

Even if you don’t know them or the show I think the book would still hold interest as Giles and Mary are so entertaining.She’s in her local Waitrose car park waiting for her husband and TV partner Giles Wood, who has gone AWOL and hasn’t taken his mobile. The couple, who got married after meeting aged 21, had been living in Chelsea before purchasing their Wiltshire home and starting a family.

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I have told Mary I do not want to be buried in the local churchyard here in Wiltshire, chiefly because of its over-zealous mowing regime, which I can observe from our cottage window. They went on to describe parts of the home as "worse than Benefits Street" due to the mould problem. It cheers me up that fellow non-drivers include David Attenborough, Melvyn Bragg and Brian Eno, but it means I am a prisoner – except for when kind female friends pick me up. Gogglebox star Pat Webb dies aged 75 following a 'long illness' as show veteran Stephen pays tribute to his. In a preamble they say that Gogglebox has saved their 30 year marriage as all that TV watching has got them to sit down together and communicate as well as giving us all a chance to see how frustrating Giles can be!

I don’t think you even need to be familiar with them to enjoy this book as the whole thing feels like we have been invited into their world and it is fun spending time with them. Mary’s a journalist, formerly worked for Tatler and is currently The Spectator’s agony aunt; Giles contributes to The Oldie although he is a serious fine artist who, she says, needs to work more. It’s helpful in some ways for me when I’m being driven mad by him, as I was earlier today when I couldn’t get hold of him,” Mary explains frankly.We can tell this is so because dimples are the sign that he is happy and they appear in his cheeks as he sees someone ranting in reaction to a bespoke comment which would enrage only that person. The much-loved Wiltshire couple share their combined, hard-earned lessons, so we can learn the secret skills of grumbling and bumbling our way towards a new contented country life. He could work all day, every day in the garden with no threat of anyone inviting him to go anywhere else. The latest “diary” that I’ve finished reading is the one written between 2016 and 2017 by two charming characters from the Channel 4 TV series Gogglebox.