Remembering Margo, Dame Penelope Keith from The Good Life

A homage to Dame Penelope Keith or as we remember her Margo Leadbetter from the TV series The Good Life . It follows Tom & Barbara Good who abandon conventional life to live self sufficiently in suburban Surbiton , Surrey , UK. They live next door to Margo & Jerry Leadbetter a snobbish banker set couple. Margo has a domestic cleaner help called Mrs Pearson who in one episode goes on holiday leaving Margo to use her own Electrolux Z90 vacuum Cleaner made up the road in Luton, England , UK While Margo uses the Electrolux Cleaner it starts to omit a high pitched whistle. Margo assumes its broken and sticks it in a shopping trolley wheeling it around to Tom & Barbara`s to see if they can FIX it. Tom attempts to take it apart while Barbara has a wrye smile on here face as she knows what the problem is . This New Fangled Electrolux Z90 has a DeLuxe feature - It Whistles When The Bag Is Full much to Margo`s distain when everyone laughs at her for not knowing !!

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