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Squirrels leap across ladders to get to food on obstacle course built by bored husband in lockdown

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Spring for your supper! Squirrels leap across ladders, ropes and planks to get to food on nutty obstacle course built by bored husband in lockdown A man in Lincoln, Nebraska, began a DIY project during the Covid-19 lockdown Result was backyard obstacle course for squirrels to perform acrobatics for food Footage was filmed of squirrels … Read more

Churchill’s secretaries were shouted at, worked 20-hour days and had to take dictation up ladders

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BOOK OF THE WEEK WORKING WITH WINSTON  by Cita Stelzer (Head of Zeus £20, 400 pp)   Fetch me klop!’ That was Winston Churchill, barking instructions to his quaking new secretary Kathleen Hill in 1937, on her first evening working for him. ‘Klop’ was Churchill’s private onomatopoeic word for his hole-puncher. But Kathleen had no idea … Read more