VILLAGE TALES - and other stories.

Terry and Jill discover more about Terry’s past sparked by what they saw on the film in Terry’s collection. Terry’s hobby has become a successful business. Would that alone have led eventually to a family reunion?

Terry Marshall is a keen collector of old family movies. While watching a street carnival with his girlfriend, Jill, Terry recognises his mother and himself in a pushchair. Jill points out the man with his arm around her and holding what she thinks must be his brother. Terry tells her he has no brother, but is he right?

A new development on the edge of the village becomes the focus of one person’s ire. Determined her dog walking routine would prevail, if only to annoy the newcomers, she could have had no idea how much that would benefit them.

The forthcoming village produce show is all that anyone talks about, but why is it so important for Bernard to keep winning the Longest Carrot? Was t a chance remark about his ‘manhood’? Surely not.

Most people are honest, aren’t they? When a so-called Major rents in the village and starts telling his stories and collecting a fan base it’s got to be suspicious, hasn’t it? Some people are not what they seem.

'Lucy’ from the Hall appears one night with a problem, and a cardboard box. By the sound of it not one I can fix, but I might know someone who can. Can it be fixed before it’s missed? Or will it be the start of a whole load of trouble?

Miller Westlake’s Westmill had been enjoyed as a ruin for many decades. When 'suits' were seen inspecting it people in the local village could not imagine anything good would come of it. But they were wrong.

An ageing local farmer decides to take a wife, but didn’t allow for what came with her. He hits upon a plan to ensure who gets the farm when he’s gone, will be those who deserve it.

Everything has its life story, what if it you could see it, feel it. What if you could pick up a rock and see what it has seen, what events you could witness, what mysteries could be unveiled. What power you might have. And what if you found a box that enabled you to do all that? Well, everything is possible, isn’t it?

Where did Milton find his ‘three pound coin’? Was it ever legal tender? Who are the mysterious callers? Could they have some thing to do with the coin? How many more questions can there be?