Summary
Ere's a Christmassy scenario I bet has been re-enacted all over the Westcountry during the past few days. It's that old Country Mouse versus Town Mouse conundrum, and it goes something like this:
The guest down from town lifts a glass of expensive booze that most definitely wasn't a Tesco half-price offer and makes a toast of praise: "Here's to the hosts. The cottage looks so wonderfully quaint in all its Christmas finery - indeed, the entire village is quaint, as is the whole bloomin' valley. We envy your no-stress, wonderful, country lives. One day, perhaps, we'd like to come and live like this."See the full content of this document
Extract
Of Town and Country Mice
To which the country host thinks: "Yeah, right. When you've made enough dosh to buy the manor house up the road. Why would you give up a couple of hundred grand a year or more to come and live like this?"
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