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Ardley
by John Hopkins 1986
Revised by Jenny Dingley 2025
“Y’know they have these parish records, who lived in a place, who was christened, and married, and buried there. If you go into the churchyard, you can see some of the nameson stones. All those names, and every gaddam one of them was a person. They got born, and were babies; and then they were kids, they learned their lessons and played games. Then they grew up and plowed and milked and cut the hay and ate dinner and drank the local beer at the Cock and Hen; then they fell in love and got married and had choldren and were sick and well and lived and died. All these people living…………..for hundreds and hundreds of years, way back to prehistoric times, and now nobody remembers them anymore”.
“Foreign Affairs”
Alison Lurie 1984