Half way through! Woop!
I had meant to do some kind of Biblical-heroine/hero-Sunday again, but instead I got a little too excited about an idea given to me yesterday. Biblical heroes may turn up again, but today I was working from a quote from Stella Gibbons' Cold Comfort Farm (1932):
"He stood at the table facing Flora and blowing heavily on his tea and staring at her. Flora did not mind. It was quite interesting: like having tea with a rhinoceros."
Today's book chronicles an increasingly irrate mother as her family exhibit behaviour which is more suited to a zoo than a house- blowing in tea etc. I rather suspect that it might end up being something of an anti-valentines sentiment, with her husband snoring like a warthog. I think it should end (not to spoil it) with her becoming a zoo keeper. I love a story with a zoo keeper in it. They're so aspirational. There was an episode of Animal Park when a trainee lion keeper tried it out for the day and then decided that it wasn't for him. What's not to enjoy? Lions. Keeping them. I was baffled.
I think Ben Fogle was baffled too.
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