Feeling the need for a bit of light relief after binge-watching Vietnam, so I've been enjoying this RadioFour adaptation of Cold Comfort Farm - a repeat, but new to me. Waiting for a cottage pie to crisp up and pondering whether a jug of sunflowers looks a bit much against a shelf of orange Penguins.
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Have you seen the TV adaptation with Ian McKellen? Not to be missed.
And Rufus Sewell before he was Lord Melbourne!
CCF is one of those books which I read as a teenager and thought was a bit silly and then read again at 50 or so and found that it had improved out of all recognition and was now HILARIOUS.
I think I was the other way round, Pam; I loved it when I read it on holiday in my 20s - my copy still has red wine stains - but wasn't quite so entranced when I re-read it (more soberly?) a few years ago for book group. BUt I did enjoy this radio adaptation.
This was rather a cult book when I was at school and I've reread it since and loved it. I read quite a bit of Stella Gibbons other writing as a result and enjoyed it immensely.
I read a few others, Veronica - but never felt they were quite in the same league. Darlene - of CosyBooks - is a huge fan.
Mary, I think that you were probably more sophisticated than I was both on a first reading (I think I was probably about 14) and also now!
Well, I hope I was more sophisticated at 20-something than you were at 14, Pam! If only a bit! I don't think if you could see me right now you'd call me sophisticated - I've just been cleaning the oven! In my best oven-cleaning clothes!
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