And again...
This time the hapless family is beset by financial woes - chiefly imagined, but woes nonetheless. Mr Bagthorpe decides to embark upon a scheme of self-sufficiency in order to cut expenditure. He also invites elderly, eccentric Aunt Lucy to visit, in the hope of wooing her to write the family into her will. Naturally the conjunction of these two objectives is not a happy one, especially when overshadowed by irritating cousin Luke's progress to the final of Young Brain of Britain.
I admire the way Helen Cresswell weaves her plot together through the series of books. I understand now, for example, the origin of Daisy's pet goat. (Her current Phase, for those interested, is to do with mortality and involves conducting funerals as frequently as possible, and predicting the demise of elderly ladies based upon the intensity of their wrinkles and the length of their legs).
Another moderately enjoyable read - and the fifth of ten. Trouble is, I've now run out of readily available library copies - I have no idea where 59f to 59j are to be procured!
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