Description
NOTE: This is a used copy from our collection, and is sold ‘as seen’. Please take note of the description.
This is a used copy in great condition. There is some light foxing to the edges of pages, but the cover and binding are in great condition.
This delightful sequel to Reuben’s Corner is both a magical evocation of the wonders and miseries of Spike Mays’ East Anglian childhood and a joyful romp through the same villages today.
The old thatchers, horse-keepers and farm labourers have mostly gone, but their tall stories in rich Suffolk dialect remain, as do recipes for home-made wines, pork cheese and chitterlings, and rude rhymes.
Horkey Suppers, Jubilee teas, village fairs where Jumping the Maidens and Welly Slinging are now the order of the day, hunt saboteurs in the church – all are recaptured with gusto in this charmingly witty book which delivers the clear message that the English village is alive and well.
Chapters
- Anticipation
- Exploration
- In Sickness and in Health
- Praying and Preying
- ‘Treacle’ Bumpstead
- Retrospection
- Helions
- Harking Back’ards and Forrards
- Jubilation
- Snobbery
- Merry Molins
- Hearts are Trumps!
- Fruitility
- The Thirst after Righteousness
- Thatchin’ an’ Throshin’
- There Was a Green Hill
- Wine and Women – and One Song
- Sing a Song o’ Chitterlings
- Time, Gentleman, Please
- My Market Guru
- Probing
- A Battery of Baptists
- Rest on Your Arms Reversed!
- Decline and… Fiddlesticks!
