The Picnic and Suchlike Pandemonium

The forecast predicted warm, dry weather, the Rolls was for once in working order, Mother had prepared enough food for an army, and Larry was coming home for a visit. The Durrell family picnic on the Dorset coast should have been a relaxing, jolly affair. But with the Durrells things are seldom straightforward and on this occasion all that could go wrong did go wrong - except Gerald Durrell's sense of humour in recounting the tale.