Hoddy", Rummins", "The Champion of the World", and "The Ratcatcher" are collected as "Claude's Dog" Initially published as "A Picture for Drioli" Working title "Meet My Sister" republished in Woman's Journal in December 1951. Saturday Evening Post (20 September 1947)įirst published as He Plowed Up $1,000,000Īlternative titles: "Collector's Item", "The Smoker" Reworked and combined with "Shot Down Over Libya" as "A Piece of Cake" Initially published as two different stories: "Shot Down Over Libya" and "Missing: Believed Killed" RT AngryScotland: Sometimes the simplest takes are the best.Saturday Evening Post (1 August 1942) as "Shot Down Over Libya" Because a wicked witch came along and turned me into a frog” ? 4 days ago Hymenopte… 4 days agoĪsked my five yr old, Tommy, what he did at school. RT StevenFalk1: New guide to the Bumblebees of Europe also just published.
He is a professional beekeeper and whilst reading his beekeeping magazine comes across an article on royal jelly. Then an idea comes to Mabel’s husband, Albert. This baby is eating so little that at six weeks old she weighs two pounds less than she did at birth. The mother, Mabel Taylor, is “half dead with exhaustion”, out of her mind with worry because the baby girl will hardly take any milk. The plot involves a married couple who have just had a long-awaited child. As a child my knowledge of bees was basic, so the story had a new fascination now that I’m a beekeeper. One of the books there happened to be Kiss Kiss, so I got it out specially to read Royal Jelly again. This week I was in the Barbican Library near my work and stopped to check out the returned shelves. My mum had both his Kiss Kiss and Switch Bitch collections and I re-read them quite a few times as a child, including the story Royal Jelly. If you’ve ever read Roald Dahl’s short stories for adults, you’ll know they’re very different in tone to his more famous children’s books.