Jilly Cooper used to fill the Erma Bombeck niche in Britain; now she's moved to novels. In my continuing effort to cut down on my book collection, I skimmed this & decided to get rid of it. Boring, obvious, weird mixture of "humor" and advice. But: "If you have a spin dryer, remember to put a bowl under the waste pipe or you'll have a kitchen awash every time." There used to be a spin dryer in the basement of our apartment building, which people still used for sheets and towels even though electric dryers had come in. It was scary--vibrating as though it would pull its bolts right out of the floor--but fascinating.