Mrs Cameron's Diary: Dickens is no Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall | As seen by Catherine Bennett

Well no disrespect to Dickens but when Dave came upstairs with Hard Times and Totes Expectations, whatever, Ijust went WTF, the bookshelf is completely full and are not times hard enough without taking endless paperbacks to the dump, major downer, but he was like please babes, just a precis and some quotes, Hilto wants to

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Mrs Cameron's Diary: Dickens is no Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

This article is more than 12 years oldAs seen by Dave's asked me to read Hard Times. I only skimmed it, but it's total literature fail

Well no disrespect to Dickens but when Dave came upstairs with Hard Times and Totes Expectations, whatever, I just went WTF, the bookshelf is completely full and are not times hard enough without taking endless paperbacks to the dump, major downer, but he was like please babes, just a precis and some quotes, Hilto wants to own Dickens before Miliband's people get hold of him, plus Hunty specially picked us the funnest titles, Caroline got Bleak House, tee hee. And I was like, wait up, did you not do Dickens at Eton but Dave said are you serious, only the local boffinry, everyone normal did Of Mice and Men?

And he went of course he would like nothing more than to read it himself but he had to go and buy more fish in Morrisons because so long as Dave keeps buying fish nobody will think about the NHS. And I'm like, fine, so we tip Danny to read Dickens when he has done the rabbits? But apparently they need Danny for the libraries, dear Vaizey has been working like 10 men but Hunty says it is like cleansing the Augean stables except Hercules did not have to deal with Joan Bakewell plus the Dickens anniversary, talk about timing.

So I am reading Hard Times and I mean literally how unbelievable is Dickens? I went to Mummy, I only skimmed it, obvs, but it so makes you glad you do not live in the olden days because tbh if Dickens had asked me, of course I would have been uber-tactful like I am about Theresa's shoes, but basically don't give up the day job? As in, I do not think Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has anything to worry about.

Because is it just me, or does it not make any sense for Louisa to turn down someone like Harthouse, since he is a) a promising Tory MP and b) not from hideous Coketown/Scunthorpe and c) obviously buff? So really, total literature fail except for this Govey/Gradgrind person, I mean separated at birth, who knew? And I have found these quotes where he basically says something like down with horse-care studies & up with sums & Coalition academies are amaze – Dave will LOVE.

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