Something Real
Cassandra woke up to find a man watching her from the end of her bed. After a quick mental review, to make sure she had not hired a new butler or manservant of late,...
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Cassandra woke up to find a man watching her from the end of her bed. After a quick mental review, to make sure she had not hired a new butler or manservant of late,...
The market turned out to be just what we needed. It was bigger than I had expected and, in addition to the usual purveyors of fudge, chutney and rare breed meats, we found ourselves...
Gloucester Waterways museum is situated, unsurprisingly, in Gloucester and is an unexpectedly entertaining insight into the Canals and Waterways of yesteryear. It includes a detailed history of how goods were transported in Victorian times,...
We decided we’d probably exhausted the possibilities of Burford. It was pretty enough but, for some reason, we all agreed it might be wise if we left as soon as possible. When we got...
After lunch, we headed over to explore the weavers’ cottages. Harry and I were still full of adrenaline from our ‘editorial discussion’ and George was still trying to work out who had proposed to...
“Right,“ said Harry, lowering a heavy tray to the table, “so that’s one Adnam’s, one Bishop’s Finger and one Addlestone’s for the lady.“ “Thankyou,“ I said, ignoring the jibe. “So what’s up,“ Harry said...
It was impossible to avoid getting the fabric in his mouth. It tasted of corduroy and sweat, which meant he was probably tasting some other guys dead skin. His head was in a bag,...
Burford, Google tells me, is a “picturesque market town, featuring a row of weavers’ cottages, and a trout farm“. George had already expressed an interest in the trout farm. Harry and I had not....
George and Harry were hard at work. They had spent three hours, on a morning when the sun was shining and the day was green with possibilities, stuck in George’s back room, lights dimmed...
Burford is referred to by its tourist board as the Gateway to the Cotswolds. Situated on the River Windrush about 20 miles west of Oxford it is, to be fair, a perfect example of...
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