Carrie Johnson and the tragedy of pond life
As so often, Hello! magazine had the scoop. Carrie and Boris Johnson are expecting again. This time it is ducks. For her 36th birthday Mrs Johnson was presented with an incubator and some duck eggs. Any day now there will be a splintering of shell and a chorus of incipient, high-pitched quacks as another waddling brood fights its way into the world. Yet more young beaks for Boris to feed, and all the little darlings topped by fluffy, yellow fur. Those Johnson genes! There is another sense in which baby ducks resemble MPs: they do not always last terribly long Duck incubators are fashionable in Chelsea-tractor circles. You need enough room