Diary of a Nobody
My dear wife
Carrie and I have been a week in our new
house. After my work in the City, I like to
be at home.
What's the good of a home, if you are never in it? "Home, Sweet Home," that's my motto.
The ‘Nobody’ is Charles Pooter, one of the great comic characters in English literature. Pooter’s diary gives us a wonderfully funny picture of suburban life 1880’s London.
In this famous episode Pooter experiments with a new type of paint:
I Paint the Bath Red
Remember
that 'strike' is an irregular verb
(strike/struck/struck).
