Leslie is busy making hay while the sun shines, but Louisa simply cannot stop clucking around her barnyard, like the proverbial mother hen.
Louisa seems totally incapable of telling the difference between, being a good mother and running her children's lives for them.
For her the two are indivisible Louisa truly believes it is her duty as a mum, given half a chance she would never willingly relent of it.
How many family busybodies can a human being possibly be expected to tolerate, and stand any chance of remaining sane.
What is it with Louisa and Spiros? He is a supposedly happily married man, but when Louisa ever needs assistance she never hesitates to call on him. And Spiros seems invariably happy to be around her, and incredibly tolerant of the Durrell clan.
Aunt Hermione arrived from her European travels in a different, and far more benign state of mind literally unrecognisably so.
Louisa seems totally incapable of telling the difference between, being a good mother and running her children's lives for them.
For her the two are indivisible Louisa truly believes it is her duty as a mum, given half a chance she would never willingly relent of it.
How many family busybodies can a human being possibly be expected to tolerate, and stand any chance of remaining sane.
What is it with Louisa and Spiros? He is a supposedly happily married man, but when Louisa ever needs assistance she never hesitates to call on him. And Spiros seems invariably happy to be around her, and incredibly tolerant of the Durrell clan.
Aunt Hermione arrived from her European travels in a different, and far more benign state of mind literally unrecognisably so.
