The Great Catsby
Giles Coren Has No Idea
The Times
4.3 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2019
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Giles and Esther return from their holiday to masses of articles on their kitchen table; from Boris Johnson proroguing parliament to sheep returning to Hamsptead Heath. Esther looks forward to getting new kittens and Giles bemoans the acknowledgements in his summer reads.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Giles Corrin has no idea. It's called this not because I literally know nothing, |
| 0:10.7 | but because it's all about the moment in the week when I have to sit down and write my column |
| 0:14.1 | but have absolutely no idea what to write it about, which is where my wife Esther comes in, who, having read all the papers |
| 0:20.4 | whilst I take the kids to school always has half a dozen ideas |
| 0:23.4 | picked out for me when I get back to be discussed at the kitchen table over a nice |
| 0:27.1 | cup of coffee. |
| 0:31.1 | Are you going to be able to talk about anything apart from cats? Me, are we rolling? |
| 0:37.8 | Of course we're rolling. Well, I am a constant of |
| 0:41.0 | professional jars as you know and I'm able to talk about something other than my gorgeous little kittens |
| 0:46.5 | Waiting for me I am I've got my phone here poised to receive up-to-date |
| 0:53.0 | what's-at- messages of my cats, my kittens, |
| 0:56.0 | for me to choose too. |
| 0:58.0 | Because it's slightly... |
| 0:59.0 | But I can concentrate. |
| 1:00.0 | Are you sure? |
| 1:01.0 | I think so. I think so. It slightly has consumed everything this cat thing and you've definitely decided |
| 1:06.3 | What? There's a super expensive grade? They're not they're not super expensive the super expensive ones I have rejected and actually the fact that she sold my blue one from under me |
| 1:15.4 | Having said that she wouldn't show them to anyone else I actually this new woman she's got cats that I prefer which are a Burmese British short-haired cross which is better because that's what my |
| 1:24.9 | How much is that? They are only 250 as opposed to 650 because they're not pedigree but actually |
| 1:30.3 | if you don't have a pedigree they don't have as many health problems as I was saying to my lovely cat breeder |
| 1:34.8 | Sandra your cat breeder you know have a cat breeder. She's called Sandra I love her. We're only that many cats |
| 1:39.9 | We're very good friends now anyway so, so the WhatsApp messages are coming in, |
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