I\u2019m home again and things got moderately exciting when a lorry got stuck on the hill outside our house. It had to stop for someone coming the other way and then couldn\u2019t get going again. That\u2019s probably all the excitement we\u2019ll get for one month, if you exclude the very sad news that someone broke into the village hall last week. If you live in the middle of a city and there is a burglary you say \u2018Oh, another burglary\u2019. If you live in a tranquil little village, where everyone knows everyone and there is a crime, it becomes the major topic of conversation because it is so unusual. It\u2019s a horrible thing to have happen, somehow it feels like an abuse of everyone\u2019s trust, a savage deed that wounds the whole community.<\/p>\n
I spent some time trying to search for some good news on the internet. There doesn\u2019t seem to be a great deal of it around. However, in the sadly bizarre category I did find that a Ukranian girl who is getting married in England is advertising for wedding guests to sit on her side and be her quests at the reception. For most people, small numbers would mean lower cost and less organisation, but instead she is looking for thirty people so that the groom doesn\u2019t steal the show. There are also places available to be a bridesmaid if the thought of being a bridesmaid is more important to you than the fact you\u2019ve never met the bride and when you look at the photos in a year, never mind twenty years, you won\u2019t know the names of anyone around you. I can\u2019t help thinking that humans are strange creatures. There seems to be no mention of inviting dogs, which seems a little remiss all things considered.<\/p>\n
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