The WWW Club by Anita Notaro

Author:Anita Notaro [Notaro, Anita]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-06-203494-6
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2005-11-08T05:00:00+00:00

Twenty-seven

Jack loved Saturday mornings. He read all the papers at leisure, although some of the articles were questionable, especially in the magazines. Anything to fill a supplement, he reckoned, as he skipped past a full two pages on what to do with leftover kangaroo steaks, with step-by-step instructions in glorious color. He couldn’t begin to imagine what the adult population of Bohola, Co. Mayo, or some other small Irish village, would make of that one. Come to think of it, kangaroo was on the menu in a place in Mullingar he’d passed through last year, so maybe he was just out of touch.

The girls were playing with cut-out cardboard dolls with real hair, dressing and undressing them faster than Naomi Campbell at London Fashion Week. They were like a three-dimensional version of what his sister did with the back page of Bunty when they were kids, except miles more sophisticated. Sam’s doll was black and called Chloe and had four different afro arrangements for hair. She was currently dressed in fishnet tights, over-the-knee shiny boots and a skirt that made Britney look overdressed—all of this in paper, although not nearly as flimsy or as hand blackening as they used to be. These were all wet-look and garishly bright. They even had real bits of jewelry and Sam had spent an hour sobbing because Rashers had got one of Chloe’s earrings and it was now languishing somewhere in his colon and would probably require an operation that would cost an arm and a leg to remove. And their vet, Mr. Costigan, had already nearly reported them to the ISPCA a few months back when Jess had stuck a blue felt pen up Rashers’ bum and tried to teach him to write by wriggling, just because she’d seen him trailing his bottom along the floor at some point earlier in the day. Still, with any luck the earring and its minuscule back fastener—essential, according to Sam—would be excreted in due course, and, as he would shortly be inspecting his own pooh if Nora had anything to do with it, it wasn’t really a hassle to keep an eye on Rashers’.

He poured another cup of coffee and marveled at how clean the place was. And it smelt good, too. The fridge was well stocked because the shopping had been done yesterday and there was a—what had she called it again?—oh yes, medallions of pork in white wine and saffron sitting looking very tasty—suspiciously so—on the top shelf. It was her only flaw, and it wasn’t even a major one, because she nearly always almost got it right. A bit of a garlicky flavor in the trifle, a sliver of anchovy or something similar in the bread and butter pudding, but hell, they were all eating way better than they ever had, even when Lorna was around, and that loaf thing the other day was actually very tasty.

No, life was good for all of them right now. He must remember to give her a

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