In his masterpiece ‘The Shepherd’s Calendar‘, John Clare reminds us of traditional English rural life through the changing seasons. Those were hard times of course, yet they had something precious that today we seem to have lost.
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John Bunyan’s ‘Pilgrim’s Progress’ has been one of the world’s most famous stories. It all started with a dream. Our modern age needs more dreamers. Dreamers with vision of new horizons and better worlds.
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It’s nearly Christmas. The snow has fallen and we are in a quaint little street in the centre of 18th century Gloucester. A lone figure leaves his shop and walks home through the snow. There are all the elements for a story here!
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Is traditional English country life vanishing today? We like to think some of the spirit of Old England still survives in our own village here.
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A Listening Heart 