Gone Rustic: Cecil Roberts

But for the remark of an old lady in Florida and a puncture while motoring to Oxford, this book would never have been written. Events drove Roberts into the discovery, and finally the purchase of an Elizabethan cottage. After that he "went rustic." This is the actual story of the cottage itself, how it was found, how it was renovated and how Roberts learns a lot at the price of gardening back-ache. Trails led him into many cottages, to the chimney where Dick Turpin hid, to the fireside of the old village blacksmith and to friends who, in their nineties, remember the "hungry forties." It's Roberts' personal adventure among birds and bulbs in a Chilterns valley to find the cottage of his dreams. Followed by Gone Rambling, Gone Afield and Gone Sunwards. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/gone-rambling-cecil-roberts/