Behind the buttermilk wash cottage, a flag of St George – the 10ft pole planted by patriotic neighbours – flutters defiantly.
This is England, sticky with jam and fortified by the rousing strains of Jerusalem.
This is England, where skylarks hovering above teased and furrowed fields, not stereos, provide the soundtrack.
This is a secret slice of Shropshire, a land so green and pleasant that P.G. Wodehouse, creator of quintessential bumbling toff Bertie Wooster, briefly called it home. This is a yesteryear England so seductive that rock stars and football idols have hidden under its rural robe.
Duran Duran’s Andy Taylor, sickened by showbusiness, retreated to this hidden, cornfield cordened corner of the countryside. David and Victoria Beckham reportedly viewed The Big House, but found the postcode too remote after Real Madrid.
This is Caynton, a hamlet studded by mansions and chocolate box cottages where the owl-eye warnings of Rural Watch posters decorate verges and walls.
And for the good folk of Caynton things may never be the same.
Four days ago they were plunged into the media spotlight.
Four days ago they lost one of their own. Unthinkably, to terrorism.
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This is England, sticky with jam and fortified by the rousing strains of Jerusalem.
This is England, where skylarks hovering above teased and furrowed fields, not stereos, provide the soundtrack.
This is a secret slice of Shropshire, a land so green and pleasant that P.G. Wodehouse, creator of quintessential bumbling toff Bertie Wooster, briefly called it home. This is a yesteryear England so seductive that rock stars and football idols have hidden under its rural robe.
Duran Duran’s Andy Taylor, sickened by showbusiness, retreated to this hidden, cornfield cordened corner of the countryside. David and Victoria Beckham reportedly viewed The Big House, but found the postcode too remote after Real Madrid.
This is Caynton, a hamlet studded by mansions and chocolate box cottages where the owl-eye warnings of Rural Watch posters decorate verges and walls.
And for the good folk of Caynton things may never be the same.
Four days ago they were plunged into the media spotlight.
Four days ago they lost one of their own. Unthinkably, to terrorism.
news from http://www.birminghammail.co.uk
scrap vendor
WhatsApp Marketing
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