<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460169" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Oh to be in England...</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">[The names and some of the details of this report have been changed to protect the identities of the persons involved - Ed.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yes I'm afraid so.<br>Mr Smith and Mrs Jones from down the road.<br>Five years now.<br>It's Mr Jones I feel sorry for.<br>Though from what I hear...<br>But it's Mrs Smith who really miffs me.<br>We're supposed to be friends, I thought.<br>Not a word, not a hint, these five years.<br>I really feel - betrayed.<br>Of course the men and the women here have a different take on this.<br>Well you'd expect it, considering.<br>(My Jack laughed like a drain when he read the details.<br>Went out early to buy the News of the Screws he calls it.) <br>I think the bastard's envious.<br>Not a word, not a hint.<br>Even the vicar's wife didn't know.<br>At least Catholics have confession.<br>Though of course their parish priests don't have wives...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'm a historian. Was. The village well, <br>the parish pump, market day, after church, coffee mornings...<br>'Social cohesion in rural communities'.<br>I B.A.- ed on it.<br>Say what you like, <br>gossip keeps a community together.<br>Five years.<br>No, I'm not going round to see her.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I feel - betrayed...</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460169" data-title="Oh to be in England... de Michael Shepherd" data-description="[The names and some of the details of this report have been changed to protect the identities of the persons involved - Ed.] Yes I'm afraid so. Mr Smith and Mrs Jones from down the road. Five years now. It's Mr Jones I feel sorry for. Though from..."></div> </div> </div>

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