Today’s new is tomorrow’s old
When I was a country mouse, I loved old things.
My favourite quote – almost a maxim for living – was that lovely line from Oliver Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer:
‘I love everything that’s old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.’
These wise words are spoken by the irascible country mouse Mr Hardcastle. He also complains that London ways are corrupting the countryside: ‘I wonder why London cannot keep its own fools at home! In my time, the
