But Really I'm Not Terribly Interested In

People Always Assume That Bachelors Are Single By Choice And Spinsters Because Nobody Asked Them. It Never Enters Their Heads That Poor Bachelors Might Have Worn The Knees Of Their Trousers Out Proposing To Girls Who Rejected Them Or That A Girl Might Deliberately Stay Unmarried.

It's A Good Idea To Wait A Few Months Before Joining Anything When You Arrive At A Village. A Bookseller Friend Who Retired To Nearby Oxfordshire, And Was Worried He Might Be Bored, Got Himself On To Every Village Committee In The First Six Months, And Spent The Next Ten Years Extricating Himself.

In A Village You Can't Sack Or Fight With Someone, As You'll Find Yourself Stuck Beside Them In The Hairdresser's Next Morning.

For Sheer Sexiness, A Man Must Be Beautiful. Funny. Yes. Clever, No.

Leo, Sadly, Has Parkinsons, But He Used To Cook All Sorts Of Dazzling Things.