Feeling sorry for myself. I wandered into the nursery and fingered Sally’s ‘Joke Book’: ‘How do you catch a monkey? – Hang upside-down in a tree and make a noise like a banana.’ And in Billy’s book of children’s verse I found Kipling: Five and twenty ponies, Trotting through the dark – Brandy for the Parson, ’Baccy for the Clerk;
