![]() ![]() ![]() One called 'hure, hare, hure' consists of pinching someone 'really hard'. And, of course, there are the private games, which are hilarious. Then there are the inevitable comic servants, with their various nicknames, not to be confused with the children's pets with their various nicknames. (If you like this sort of stuff, there is an awful lot of it in The Mitford Girls.) Needless to say, they all talk a private language and give each other nicknames - thus, Diana was never called Diana in the family Sydney called her 'Dana', David called her 'Dina', Nancy 'Bodley', Pam and Unity 'Nardy', Decca called her 'Cord', and Debo called her 'Honks'. The children consist of six daughters, from Diana the eldest to Debo the youngest, with a son, Tom, somewhere in the middle. ![]() Muv is famous for being dotty and believing that 'the Good Body' cures itself her children have some close shaves with appendicitis. Farve is famous for his temper tantrums and shouting 'Sewer!' at his daughters' boyfriends. There's Muv and Farve - Lord Redesdale and his long-suffering wife, Sydney - whose eccentricities we know from Diana's The Pursuit of Love and Jessica's Hons and Rebels. ![]() So, are you sitting comfortably, kiddies? Let's start again from the beginning. But no, Mary S Lovell assures us, there is a whole generation of younger readers who haven't even heard of them. I thought there was a perpetual industry devoted to producing books, plays, musicals and television series about the Mitfords. Personally, I never noticed they'd gone away. ![]()
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