{"id":4143,"date":"2021-02-03T20:24:23","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T20:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4143"},"modified":"2021-02-03T20:24:23","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T20:24:23","slug":"cold-comfort-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4143","title":{"rendered":"Cold Comfort Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The title refers to our current Book Club reading. We are discussing it next week and I have almost finished. Quite surprised I haven&#8217;t read it before. Have to say considering it is nearly ninety years since it was first published apart from a couple of things it still seems remarkably fresh. Our Book Club varies on choices to old classics, to contemporary books. I should think 70%\u00a0\u00a0of the choices might be classified as novel\/fiction but we do read non-fiction as well. We also do extras like favourite journalistic pieces, Desert Island Discs, cartoons, balloon debate etc. Sadly we haven&#8217;t had one of our infamous Book Club feasts on a book theme for a year now! I love the diversity and the inventiveness of our Book Club -we have also done a <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Dickens Cycling Tour of London<\/strong> <\/span>and a cultural weekend in <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Oxford<\/strong> <\/span>(there were many books or authors connected with the city.) We had hoped to do a Dylan Thomas weekend in Swansea last September (one for the future!)<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday&#8217;s Quiz on <em><strong>Birds!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>a)<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong> Norwegian Blue<\/strong> <\/span>was the Monty Python Parrot!\u00a0 b) The Eagles are <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Crystal Palace<\/strong><\/span>,\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Seagulls <\/span>are <span style=\"color: #00ccff;\"><strong>Brighton<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0 The Magpies \u00a0are <strong>Notts County and Newcastle\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong> c) <span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\"><strong>Louisiana<\/strong> <\/span>is the Pelican State\u00a0\u00a0 d) Charlie Parker played the <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>sax\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0 e) <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Puck<\/strong> <\/span>is \u00a0also known as Robin Goodfellow<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s quiz is all on <em><strong>Places in Books<\/strong> <\/em>(well I did mention books didn&#8217;t I!)<\/p>\n<p>a)\u00a0 What <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>county<\/strong><\/span> is Cold Comfort Farm in?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 b) Who lived at <span style=\"color: #ff99cc;\"><strong>4 Privet Drive, Little Whinging?<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 c) What city is <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha<\/strong> <\/span>by Roddy Doyle set ?\u00a0\u00a0 d) What city is <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Midnight&#8217;s Children<\/strong> <\/span>by Salman Rushdie set?\u00a0 e) Who lives in the <span style=\"color: #00ff00;\"><strong>Emerald City<\/strong> <\/span>who might help some famous travellers? (it is a film as well)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The title refers to our current Book Club reading. We are discussing it next week and I have almost finished. Quite surprised I haven&#8217;t read it before. Have to say considering it is nearly ninety years since it was first &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4143\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2D5Gc-14P","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4144,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143\/revisions\/4144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}