Friday 29 September 2017



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.

8 comments:

Café Society said...

Have you seen the TV adaptation with Ian McKellen? Not to be missed.

Mary said...

And Rufus Sewell before he was Lord Melbourne!

Pam said...

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.

Mary said...

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.

Vronni's Style Meanderings said...

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.

Mary said...

I read a few others, Veronica - but never felt they were quite in the same league. Darlene - of CosyBooks - is a huge fan.

Pam said...

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!

Mary said...

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!