At this time of year, my granny always used to have a bowl of hyacinths in her sitting room. I can smell the ghost of their slightly sickly sweetness now as I write this, nearly 40 years after her ...
It was one of the best loved sitcoms of the 1990s. The nation fell in love with social-climbing snob Hyacinth Bouquet and her long-suffering husband Richard - not to mention her slobby brother-in-law ...
In the week the BBC announced it was reviving Keeping Up Appearances, Debora Robertson celebrates the little bit of Hyacinth that blossoms in us all Hyacinth Bucket on 'Keeping up Appearances' (played ...