They are really clocking up the mileage on the Porsche. How long does it take to order a fan belt in Chateauroux? Fanny returned from Japan 3 weeks ago. Where has the other car disappeared to?
Fanny says they now always keep a book in the car for reading whilst they are driving. Most people who read in a car for any length of time get motion sickness and become nauseous. I'd love to see Fanny or Snorty puke in the Porsche.
Perhaps Rita Koning, the author of 'Domestic Bliss, How to Live', the book Fanny is reading, has tips on how to remove the smell of vomit from the car - hand-picked, silk-wrapped, embroidered lavender sachets perhaps???
Fanny is particularly smitten with the chapter 'Me, Me, Me, Me and How to Spoil Oneself', which coincidentally is the working title of Fanny's pending autobiography.
One review of the book stated that 'Domestic Bliss: How To Live' is a perfectly silly book, and is of course making perfectly silly money as it flies off the shelves; it is also perfectly nicely written, and comes out with perfect timing, into a market apparently ripe for a slather of books on the forgotten art of simply staying in and living. Rita's chapters are called things such as 'Me, me, me, me and how to spoil oneself', 'After-dinner treats' and 'Presents: giving and wrapping'.
Rita's advice is, essentially, a masterclass in trivia. We should think, we are told, of trying to 'speak to builders like they are normal people rather than second-class citizens'. And there's the infuriating stuff about the perfect picnic, which would require a team of sweating sherpas. (
Sadly, Fanny isn't taking all of Rita's advice to heart, but instead is treating her builders and staff like second-class sherpas and working them to death).
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