Back to the country ...

Although we feel at home in Brentwood since we moved here last year there's one thing we do miss from living in Suffolk. And that is, watching BBC's regional news Look East. Here on digital we get London news. However, we can get a very snowy Look East on terrestrial.

As we were in the 'depths' of Essex recently and saw Look East again, we thought we'd watch it tonight through the "snowstorm".

And we were rewarded! Instead of the gritty London stories we heard about:

• a miniature railway where the steam engine had been derailed due to vandalism, even though it was only travelling at 5 mph (no injuries to passengers);
• the growing of different strawberry varieties to see which taste best (complete with a colour card to see when they are the correct colour to pick);
• a fire in a village called Cold Norton (perhaps it should be renamed now!);
• a teenager who has taken over as landlord of a pub in Thornham Magna.

Oh the joys of rural life!