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Newscast, listen on BBC Sounds. This summer, writer Jeanette Winterson was at the center of a Twitter storm,

all because she killed an et an animal to which many of us are sentimentally attached.

So Jeanette Winterson has become the Mr. McGregor of Twitter.

That was one of the gentler tweets aimed at the award-winning writer. After she sent out pictures of a rabbit she had killed bubbling away on the

stove. Her explanation was twitterishly succinct, almost a haiku. Rabbit ate my parsley. I am eating rabbit.

This is worse than Freddie Star ate my hamster. And I've had at least 100 tweets a minute

since Sunday. I'm deluged with it. I don't mind me quoting a couple of

the more robust ones, shall we say. You make me sick. I will never again read a word you write.

She'll have to stick to reading vegetarians which I think is

probably going to restrict her reading list quite a lot and God forbid she should

ever read Ted Hughes who snared and ate more rabbits than I ever shall.

Yes Mr Rabbit, he's not his lesson at last.

Yes, Mr Rabbit, you you learnt your lesson at last.

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