Scilly may be paradise to some but it’s clearly not everybody’s cup of tea.
A Times TV critic has said the experience of living on the Islands would make her ‘need to breathe into a brown paper bag’.
Carol Midgley describes new series An Island Parish as ?slow, slumberous, beautiful and often very dull - a bit, I imagine, like living on the Isles of Scilly.?
After calling the programme a cunning plot by the BBC to exploit the January depression with the rat race by ‘feeding us Good Life porn’, she says it didn’t wash with her.
‘Maybe it’s the years I spent living in London being ignored by people who had lived on my street for a decade, but the very thought of everyone knowing my business and needing a boat to escape my neighbours makes me need to breathe into a brown paper bag,’ she writes.
By the end of the show, Ms Midgley says she was starting to feel stressed.
‘I couldn’t quite cope with the idea of the farmer doubling up as the fireman and the police having to use the tourists’ holiday ferry to get to the scene of the crime unless I was, say, Miss Hoolie in Balamory.’
She probably won’t be visiting any time soon then.