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’Tis the silly season

HEN I wrote last month about Old Testament rain (), little did I know it was turning into one of those years that, before the technical miracles of modern agriculture, would have led to harvest failure, famine and a superstitious hunt for the parish witches who might have been responsible. Not to mention lines of emaciated people making their way to the estate’s jetty, which still pokes out of the mud in Carsethorn, to

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