DJ - we've driven through it and walked past via the coastal path but never yet stopped to look round. It might be interesting to take a look at the church one day though.
I really miss RB, and regularly dip into his collections of Church Times articles. He writes about nature and village life and faith in a very engaging way, and Akenfield is absolutely marvellous. He tried his hand at short stories, and although the style is of a very narrow slice of provincial English life at a very definite time in our history, he produced some absolute gems.
Sam - it's a lost art which is likely to become more lost as memories fade and the culture which sustained the art is gradually trashed.
Scrobs - maybe he could have been but never made it into one of Dickens' stories. Absalom Stiffkey the crusty old lawyer, senior partner of Stiffkey Stiffkey and Scringe.
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Stayed in Stiffkey for a week a few years ago. There's not much there and the A road through it is small - but the Ronald Blythe legend lives on.
ReplyDeleteStrange how the weird stuff lingers on. It makes the past seem stranger than it really is.
DJ - we've driven through it and walked past via the coastal path but never yet stopped to look round. It might be interesting to take a look at the church one day though.
ReplyDeleteI really miss RB, and regularly dip into his collections of Church Times articles. He writes about nature and village life and faith in a very engaging way, and Akenfield is absolutely marvellous. He tried his hand at short stories, and although the style is of a very narrow slice of provincial English life at a very definite time in our history, he produced some absolute gems.
ReplyDeleteFor many years, I thought that 'Stiffkey' was a Dickensian character!
ReplyDeleteSam - it's a lost art which is likely to become more lost as memories fade and the culture which sustained the art is gradually trashed.
ReplyDeleteScrobs - maybe he could have been but never made it into one of Dickens' stories. Absalom Stiffkey the crusty old lawyer, senior partner of Stiffkey Stiffkey and Scringe.