‘What do you mean, “gapering”?’ asked my husband during a pause from shouting at the television. ‘Is it like capering?’
He wasn’t following, because he had been busy excoriating a television reporter for invoking global warming on the local news. (Local news means uninteresting things that have happened near you. It is even worse in London, since a lot of real news happens there, so the criterion is to save the chaff for the local bulletin.
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