Cold Comfort Farm

Cold Comfort

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Long-term readers of this blog will be familiar with my enduring passion for Stella Gibbons’ novel Cold Comfort Farm. It has been produced in other forms on several occasions. I’m rather fond of the one I have on tape, read by Kenneth Williams.* My wife spotted the fact that film version was to be broadcast … Read more

Reuben put it better than I could.

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“Oi ‘ev scranletted three hundred furrers fro’ Nettle Flitch to Ticklepenny corner!” With these words I greeted my wife as I came in from the garden for lunch this morning. Let me explain. This is one of my favourite quotations from Cold Comfort Farm (my favourite novel) by Stella Gibbons. Reuben, the solid and hard-working … Read more