I must've trained her well because Padma already had the fireplace blazing and the porridge bubbling by the time I got out of bed on this cold and frosty morning. All I had to do is turn the electric rug to a comfortable 34 degrees - that's the old Swedish astronomer and not that chap who also lent his name to a book by Ray Bradbury - and sit down to a morning by the fire with "The Wind in the Willows".
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(notice how he keeps changing the photographs on the side table)
If you want to follow me, you could do worse than to join Gildart Jackson, the British-born actor and award-winning audiobook narrator, in his fireside reading of Kenneth Grahame's "The Wind in the Willows".
