The male - I have found - is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things.
Jilly Cooperit's a good idea to wait a few months before joining anything when you arrive at a village. A bookseller friend who retired to nearby Oxfordshire, and was worried he might be bored, got himself on to every village committee in the first six months, and spent the next ten years extricating himself.
Jilly Cooper