Virginia Ironside’s Dilemmas (Independent)
I don’t know if you know, Natalie, of a syndrome called the “frog in the pot”. The thinking behind it is that, if you throw, heaven forbid, a frog into a pan of boiling water, he will spring out immediately. But if you put a frog into a pan of cool water, then slowly bring it to the boil, he will simply fall asleep and die.