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Marlborough_Nan

<t>I have read this thread three times and I have started to answer it twice and deleted it both times. I will only say I have come to think there is something in it. More than land agents. I was the daft old woman joining up dots that werent joined and I am not so sure now that they werent joined. ...

Marlborough_Nan

<t>Twenty years Pat, well I never. I shall have been here twelve of them. You are quite right it is quieter, and I will own it has felt a stranger sort of quiet of late, though I shall not bring all that in here. This is the Snug and the Snug is for the warm things. We have been a comfort to one ano...

Marlborough_Nan

Locked out of our own history now Janet. That is what it has come to. You go to look at a ruin your grandfather could walk to and theres a chain on the gate and no name on it. I dont like it. I dont like any of it.

Marlborough_Nan

<t>Bill that is the same firm I will wager, the cottages one. London, no face to it. First the empty houses, now your top ground. I know I am the daft old woman who joins up things that arent joined. But it is the same quiet pressure and it is the same not knowing who is behind it. You keep saying n...

Marlborough_Nan

Oh this has cheered me up no end. Six weeks! And Clive crying at an engine, bless him, that is the loveliest thing I have read all year. You hold onto that feeling Dawn. The good days are for keeping.

Marlborough_Nan

<t>Forgive an old woman a sad thought. We spend our time on this board chasing villages that died three hundred year ago, the plague ones, the enclosure ones, wondering how a place just stops. And I look out at our own green with three houses dark and the firm buying up more, and I think, we are wat...

Marlborough_Nan

<t>Oh Pat. I am shielding, they call it, which means I sit in and wave at people through the window like the Queen. My grandson does my shopping and leaves it on the step and we shout at each other down the path. I am quite alright really, I have the wireless and the garden and you lot of an evening...

Marlborough_Nan

<t>Nobody knows who the firm is, Janet, that is the part. You write to the address and a different name signs the reply each time. I asked at the post office, and even Brenda couldnt trace who is behind it, and Brenda can trace anybody. There. I have said it and I feel daft. Probably just money, lik...

Marlborough_Nan

<t>I dont know if this is the right board but it didnt feel like chat. There are three cottages dark on our green now, curtains down, gardens gone to nettles. The Pratt place and the two beside it. A firm bought them, solicitors, the letters come from London, nobody you could put a face to. Nobody l...

Marlborough_Nan

<t>This thread again. I do keep coming back to it. Something and nothing, but the empty cottages up our end have been going the same way. Three dark on the green now, curtains down, gardens gone over. A firm bought them. Solicitors, the letters come from London, nobody you could put a face to. The P...

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