Williamson's Weekly Nature Notes
Norfolk and Devon have them too, but I'm here in Sussex now. Some years ago, I was sweating it out in Iraq and Afghanistan, and if you have not been to those places you would be surprised how much these sounds of home bubble through the grit and heat of the desert lands.
But there are country people who don't give a fig for the rook or the nightingale.
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Hide AdAs for church bells, they would repeat A E Housman's lines from Bredon Hill: 'Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come' when the story-teller spoke of the tolling funeral bell.
For full feature see West Sussex Gazette May 28