Cold Comfort Farm

<p>Get ready to see something nasty in the woodshed, because this week we're talking about Cold Comfort Farm! Join us to learn about 1920s Kenya, horrible Jell-O dishes, and the Girl Guides. Plus, Sofia delivers a tutorial on reading tea leaves, which Jamie fails in spectacular fashion.</p> <p>Sources:</p> <p>1920s Kenya:</p> <p>Brett L. Shadle, The souls of white folk: White settlers in Kenya, 1900s-1920s (Manchester University Press, 2015), https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv18b5hjh .<br /> Marc H. Dawson, "The 1920s Anti-Yaws Campaigns and Colonial Medical Policy in Kenya," The International Journal of African Historical Studies 20, no. 3 (1987): 417-35. https://www.jstor.org/stable/219687<br /> C.J.D. Duder and C.P. Youe, "Paice's Place: Race and Politics in Nanyuki District, Kenya, in the 1920s," African Affairs 93, no. 371 (April 1994): 253-78. https://www.jstor.org/stable/723844<br /> Martin S. Shanguhyia, "Integrating African Traditions in Environmental Control in Western Kenya: Contradictions and Failure in Colonial Policy, 1920-1963," The International Journal of African Historical Studies 49, no.1 (2016): 23-52. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44715441<br /> John Overton, "The Origins of the Kikuyu Land Problem: Land Alienation and Land Use in Kiambu, Kenya, 1895-1920," African Studies Review 31, no.2 (September 1988): 109-26. <a href= "https://www.jstor.org/stable/524421">https://www.jstor.org/stable/524421</a></p> <p>Reading Tea Leaves:</p> <p>Laurel Dalrymple, "For Centuries, People Have Searched For Answers In The Bottom Of A Tea Cup," NPR (1 September 2015), https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/09/01/434621010/for-centuries-people-have-searched-for-answers-in-the-bottom-of-a-tea-cup .<br /> Cicely Kent, Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves: How to Read Your Fate in a Teacup (New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1922. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Telling_Fortunes_by_Tea_Leaves/lrY2y1zHnWoC?hl=en&gbpv=0<br /> Nicholas J. Crowley and Charles William Sharpe, "An old fortune-teller is reading a young