EMMA’S PARENTS’ HOUSE
BACK TO THE FUTURE
We’re back from three days in the Anciente Towne of Steyning. Thatch, half-timber, rough-cast plaster, that distinctive dark red 16th century brickwork. A Norman church, St Andrew’s, with deeper Saxon roots. A 17th century grammar school, the original buildings still in use. And as one walks down the High Street, one hears in the voices everywhere the distinctive regional quack & whinny of hard-core Southeast England middle class English. The honest ploughboys, the rubicund yeomen, the winsome dairymaids are long gone & in their stead there nestle in the inglenooks bankers, surgeons, lawyers, architects & humble, straw chewing media folk. Merrie England...
11:12:27 PM 
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