in a village you can't sack or fight with someone, as you'll find yourself stuck beside them in the hairdresser's next morning.
Jilly CooperI can assure you that the class system is alive and well and living in people's minds in England.
Jilly CooperYouve simply got to go on and on with your family and friends and tell them how much you love them because you never know whether theyll be there tomorrow, do you?
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