Diary of a Nobody



laurelspooter1-My dear wife Carrie and I have been a week in our new house, "The Laurels," After my work in the City, I like to be at home. What's the good of a home, if you are never in it? "Home, Sweet Home," that's my motto.
The ‘Nobody’ is Charles Pooter, one of the great comic characters in English literature. Pooter’s diary gives us a wonderfully funny picture of suburban life 1880’s London.
In this famous episode Pooter follows the advice of a work colleague’s wife and buys a new type of paint.bathillustr