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Counting My Chickens.... and other home thoughts

Counting My Chickens.... and other home thoughts
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'COUNTING MY CHICKENS.....and other home thoughts.' Entertaining, instructive, thought-provoking and hilarious by turns, this wildly assorted collection of articles could be by absolutely no one but the Duchess of Devonshire.Tom Stoppard in his adoring introduction, notes that 'here you will find the amazed and disgusted little boy who announced 'I'll never drink milk again'" after watching the milking demonstration at the Chatsworth Farmyard, and the eco-militant who rang her neighbour in fury to demand "Why have you poisoned all your dahlias?'" after an unseasonal frost. The Duchess also knows which puffball fungi are good for eating, about trees, sheep, goats, chickens, cookery, housekeeping and shopkeeping and a hundred other things.' She writes about her happy, eccentric childhood among the rest of the Mitford clan, life at Chatsworth, clothes, friends, politicians, Harold Macmillan, frogs... and Elvis Presley.

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