Life's rich pageant

I love these people who promise to care for your pets after the rapture. Perhaps I should write a best-selling novel series about the dogs who are Left Behind. (Although as a business model it does seem a bit stupid. If you believe in the rapture why on earth would you trust anyone to make a special effort to find and care for your animals while all the post-rapture horror is going down? Have they not read the book of Revelation?)

Also this happy lime has caused grief to a protective father. "He said: 'I demanded to see the shop manager and, during a heated exchange, my wife became quite distressed and had to sit down in the car park.'"

This Life of Elizabeth Chudleigh from ODNB's Life of the Week is pretty good.

In other news, no one can write like Dostoevsky.