Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    AU34/21/7/16/16
  • Title
    Letter from R P S Waddy
  • Date free text
    25 May 1976
  • Production date
    From: 1976 To: 1976
  • Scope and Content
    A handwritten letter from R P S Waddy (former Rector of St Andrew's, Ampthill) on headed paper from St. Fursey, in Ditchingham, Bungay to Honora Grimmer: "My dear Nora, I have just listened to the replay of Down Your Way, and it was excellent - the right beginning and the right end, and Jim Nottingham as the ham in the sandwich (I have just written to him, but please congratulate Andrew.) I learnt, or re-learnt, a lot: I am more interested in the battle of Sole Bay since we came nearer to Southwold, and I have been reading up James II lately. And I never hear the story of how Jim lost his leg, or who paid for his wedding. Nor indeed the story of the The Dog That Walked! But it is a long time now - 24 years since we left the rectory. Christopher has just flown off to Athens with his family for four months - a shipping job - so we shall miss our adorable grandaughter Drusilla, now 2 1/2 and full of intelligent conversation. Judy comes back from Seattle in July, and we hope to see lots of Havana, now and electrifying damsel of 4, who sang a whole tape recording for us. They may well go back to the U.S.A. for another year, while England settles its problems with the pound. I hope for a locum tenancy in Dorset in July and August, but otherwise we shall stay put in windy Norfolk (unless we slip off to Athens for a week! Last year's cruise has given us more of a taste for adventure.) I went to a deanery synod last night: and we discussed a motion warning the Bishop 'that this deanery is unviable.' It reminded me of Humpty Dumpty in Alice - 'when I use a word, it means what I want it to mean.' Anyway, Ampthill sounds viable still! All good wishes - and thanks for 'Church and State' (or Town and Gown?). It is always newsy. Yours sincerely, Pat Stacy Waddy"
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