Our bellringers have at last acquired a fifth bell, but not everyone is happy about it. Some think there is a problem. As the sound fades away there’s another sound that accompanies it, one that sounds like a scream.

When a villager who is known as a hoarder suddenly disappears, it sparks all sorts of rumour. When his house is put up for sale and all the contents are to be cleared surely he must be dead. When something is found in a piece of furniture the mystery is solved and a love story is revealed.

If, when the snow lays deep on the ground, a young woman calls to ask if you’ve seen her child, Mary, you would help her wouldn’t you? It would be natural. Would it also be natural for the woman to disappear and for there to be no foot prints?

Davina Dawson, who only ever answers to ‘Dave’, is a party person but when a dinner party gets out of hand and a bookcase is damaged there are consequences.

An unlucky tailor becomes a misanthropic recluse after being wrongly found guilty of arson. Only when some help is offered after a serious fall does he become reconciled to society and able to reclaim the respect and admiration that as a master tailor should have always been his.

Did the renown anthropologist Dr. Frobisher really witness what he claimed in the jungles of the Amazon? If he did it would revolutionise what we know of human development, but the proof he had was lost. The contents of a trunk found in a store room during a clear-out in the British museum could be the proof the world has been searching for, unless it's been thrown away.

What possible harm can there be in a dress? Especially a classic, and one that fits perfectly. Could it be a little tight round the neck? A little too tight? A charity shop purchase and you might buy more than you bargained for.

Around Christmas ‘Old Ethel’ a bag lady, makes a regular appearance at the bottom of Gold Hill, Shaftesbury at a time when such people were greeted with suspicion, but was Old Ethel a witch? A kind gesture from a child who knows no better is rewarded and the benefit doesn’t stop there.

To every thing there is a season and a time to every purpose, in other words nothing lasts forever and no one. Those who were masters have become servants, and those who were poor become less so. Everybody’s going through changes, and everybody changes places, but the world goes on the same.

It could lead you to believe that there is as many dead wandering the lanes and cottages as there are those that appear in good health.