I love the long grass coming up to meet the willows.

Leo, sadly, has Parkinsons, but he used to cook all sorts of dazzling things.

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.

The memo's chief function ... is as a track-coverer, so that you can turn on someone six months later and snarl: 'Well, you should have known about it, I sent you a memo.

it'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.

A lot of meetings are held to arrange when to have meetings. ... Meetings today are usually called conferences to make them sound more significant.

I love the long grass coming up to meet the willows.