Status Updates From A History of the World in 1...

So far, there are repeated themes of unfortunate sea voyages involving unbalanced people, with repeated appearances of woodboring beetles.

'She must have seen them first on a Christmas card. Six, eight, ten of them, harnessed side by side. She always imagined that each pair was man and wife, a happy couple, like the animals that went into the Ark. ... But her Dad said you could tell from the antlers that the reindeer pulling the sleigh were stags. ... Father Christmas ran an all-male team. Typical. Absolutely bloody typical, she thought.'