Property News · February 16, 2018

Let’s move to Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire


Imagine living life in tweed slacks and Boden quilted bodywarmersWhat’s going for it? A confession: sometimes I pretend to read the Daily Telegraph. It’s a bit like cosplay. I try to imagine living life in tweed slacks and Boden quilted bodywarmer, with a Plain English tongue-and-groove kitchen, polenta cake in the oven, pedigree labrador panting at the back door, several cases of vintage claret in the cellar. Perhaps like Jennifer off The Archers. Probably in Chipping Campden. It’s that kind of place: amazing, if you detach yourself from your entire world view. Gorgeous, rose-garnished 17th-century cottages lived in by Jemima Puddleducks, straight outta This England. Window frames freshly painted. No stained mattresses abandoned on the pavement. Framed photos of the Queen or St Jacob Rees-Mogg. Topiaried hedges. Quaint local customs (its Olimpick Games). Morris dancing (the horror). If there is a seamier side of closet Red Pepper subscribers, then my undercover research must have failed me.The case against… The rest of reality kept at bay. Morris dancing, etc. Tourists (though far fewer than Broadway and Moreton-in-Marsh). Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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