Book: Eternal wonderlife

Years and years of having to jump up at the crack of dawn kindled in me a frenzied love for my warm bed.

Her thin, slightly hunched figure and wrinkled face testified to difficult times. Many old men and women in Yorkshire had such faces - severe, but kind.

Big dogs are kept in small houses, and small dogs live in big houses.

I married a beautiful, intelligent, sincere girl and wished with all my heart that she would be kinder to herself and at least someday rest. In the first days of marriage, I tried to make her not overstrain with pleas, and sometimes stormy scenes that I didn’t really succeed in, but I could just as well convince a stone wall, ”Helen stubbornly continued to clean up. And more cooking.

John, a very well-bred, very correct young man, unlike most veterinarians, never swears. However, it turned out that he possessed a huge store of these words - some I did not even know, which is surprising, since I grew up in Glasgow.

I have rarely been visited by new ideas - in fact, I have an organic aversion to any changes and innovations.

There was no way to please him, he verbally rolled over people like a steamroller, driving them into the ground, and treated everyone like the dumbest recruits in his regiment.

There is no greater pleasure than waking up at night, realizing that it is too early to get up, turning over and falling asleep.

The old corduroy trousers were asking for retirement, as well as my entire wardrobe. However, the needs of two growing children were much more important than my own.