It’s the taking part that counts

The prizegiving of the Maldon Town Regatta is a bit like an episode of Midsomer Murders without the murders, the disappointing lack of which was raised in a recent very acrimonious parish council Zoom meeting, which had it been in person would have gone some way to redressing the woefully low body count that is a stain on Maldon’s reputation, not to say an embarrassment.

For some in our mystic marshy realm on the east coast margins of land and sea and plough