Lord Bonkers' Diary: "Cooking doesn't get any tougher than this"

And so another week at Bonkers Hall draws to a close. Lord Bonkers was Liberal MP for Rutland South West 1906-10.

Sunday

An enjoyable breakfast – kedgeree, devilled kidneys, eggs and b – quite up to Cook’s usual high standards. She does well to produce it, I later learn, because a leopard has escaped from my private menagerie and invaded her kitchen, with the result that she is forced to beat it off with a ladle from time to time. As she later remarks to me, “Cooking doesn’t get any tougher than this.”

Then to St Asquith’s where the Revd Hughes preaches a sermon on the text: “In 1945 Sir Archibald Sinclair defended Caithness and Sutherland and, lo, he was defeated by 61 votes and beaten even unto third place.” I think there is a lesson there for us all.

Earlier this week

• Monday: Living with Mark Oaten
• Tuesday: Sarah Teather's sense of humour
• Wednesday: Sandra Gidley wrapped in baking foil
• Thursday: A day at my solicitor's
• Friday: Driving around Eastleigh with Chris Huhne
• Saturday: Candidates' photographs

You may also be interested in part 1 and part 2 of Twenty Years of Lord Bonkers.