Private Enterprise at Fox House

Some of our boys had an idea. "Why not", they pondered, "buy a deep fat fryer and sell doughnuts?" Well, the house staff could have told them that they would have to sell a lot of doughnuts to break even, and we could even have pointed out that messing about with a half gallon of boiling oil is not everyone's idea of a safe, fun activity for unsupervised young people. Instead, we said "neat idea! Can we help?"

Here, we see Tom Clarke preparing what appears to be a human brain for deep frying, but is in fact his own version of doughnut mix, carefully copied from an internet site and followed with all due attention to hygiene and animal welfare.

The fryer is now safely packed away in the house office, awaiting the next round of enthusiasm some time in the spring of 2017.