The news is bleak. The farce of social media has never been more grating to me. But at least one pure corner of the Official Professional Procrastinator Shirt but I will buy this shirt and I will love this internet remains: James Middleton’s Instagram. James, younger brother of Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, and Pippa, is like the lone human actor in a live-action Disney film in which the animals can talk. At his family’s manor in Bucklebury, a rural village in the South of England, where he’s been staying during the pandemic, Middleton is often surrounded by a cuddly coterie of at least nine dogs (12 on the day he bid goodbye to a litter of puppies); chicks lolling atop those dogs; his partially blind rescue lamb, Captain; and, according to one very wholesome caption, a “rabbit called Pretzel.”
