Episodes of TRIBE are doing it for Lola right now and she is fast becoming fascinated by history and anthropology. We spent most of this evening cuddled up on the sofa, peeking through our fingers at the women of the Suri tribe tucking lip plates into their detached lower lips and hooking their flesh with thorns before cutting it with razor blades as permanent skin decoration to attract men. The men, meanwhile, were purging themselves with tree bark and river water and drinking the fresh blood of cows and goats in readiness for stick-fighting with another tribe; it was captivating. Tomorrow afternoon we will be watching the Kombai, hunter-gatherers of the West Papua jungle. We may not leave Chestnut House very often, and rarely venture past the Orwell Bridge, but our imaginations are going so much further!