Why ticks are useful, a recipe for parboiled Ariel, and...

...other overcooked reflections on the summer of our discontent: 2023. WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY PETER MOORE

AS THE SUN CLIMBS ever higher in the sky, the editors of the New York Times are giving us reasons for dread rather than celebration.

In a recent article entitled IS THAT A SUMMER HOUSE I SEE? I MISSED YOU, WE SHOULD CATCH UP, the newspaper of record warned those of us who don’t have summer homes not to bother friends who do have them.