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Cotswolds Diary

Naturalised flowers scatter the ground around two large stone tombs that lie side by side in our village churchyard. The tombs are the most opulent of all within the churchyard, each embellished with a low iron railing.

Passing the graves almost daily for decades, I’ve never taken much notice of this pair. Yet, last week, I did something a little extraordinary, and went

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