In Absentia…
June 3, 2008
We must apologise to our dear Reader (the ‘blog stats’, as I believe they are called, indeed indicating that there is only one) for our unexplained absence. Suffice to say that several weeks ago Mrs Spelling was overtaken by a sudden desire to visit Timbucktoo, where her cousin apparently resides, thus plunging Messrs Bennett and Teed into a querulous predicament. When I made mention of the fact, as our dear Housekeeper was almost running to the front door with her suitcase, she merely declared:
‘It’s time you two miserly old miseries learned to fend for yourselves!’
And so it was that my esteemed colleague and I have indeed been relearning various skills associated, we believe, with modern life. Of these, I can report that I am most proud of my success in the kitchen, where only last evening I rendered a fox that had fallen into one of my garden snares into a most edible ragout. (Although Mr Bennett’s comment was merely ‘terrible fox’.)
Of these new lifeskills, however, I must admit that blogging has not been at the forefront.
