And sometimes we step-ĭanced, although mostly the step-dancing was done at Cretingham Bell. 'The Fakenham Ghost' and 'The Farmer's Boy'. 'Nellie Dean' and 'Pack up your Troubles'. Matter how awful it was-you could tell it. Happening to them at that moment! But if it had happened years ago-no People didn't usually tell each other things that were We told each other about the things that happened to us, onlyĪ long time ago. It was the good time of the day and we all lookedįorward to it. The boys would be there too, rollicking and laughing but They sat on the verge if it was fine and on the benches inside the Twenty or more folk to sit on that bank outside the shop and talk of anĮvening. All through my boyhood it was a regular thing for What I notice most about the village now is the way people no longer Ronald Blythe, Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village (New York: Pantheon, 1969), p.
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