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Why Sodom and south Devon are a million miles apart

28 September 2019

9:00 AM

28 September 2019

9:00 AM

We gathered around in the sunshine and watched the coffin being lowered into the freshly dug trench. Stratifications visible on the interior sides of the excavation showed that she was being laid to rest in shallet (compacted broken slate) and I felt sorry for whoever it was who had volunteered to dig it by hand.

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