Shimpling

Beware, O ye sons and daughters of Socrates that dwell in Norfolk, lest by some hapanimous a parson, farmer, or school manager complain behind your back about you to the gods of education assembled at the Shire Hall, and however aptly his complaint may be described as fiction, it be by the gods immediately dubbed friction, and whatever you may say or do to defend yourself against this falsehood, you be dismissed.

The chairman of the Education Committee himself, Mr. F.H. Millington, had at length in full committee proposed that Mr. and Mrs. Higden be offered the Burston and Shimpling Council School.

Let it not be forgotten that friction with managers, calling managers liars, etc., are written down falsely in the committee's books against Mrs. Higden, and woe betide her if ever breath of so-called friction reach the ears of the Norfolk Committee again.

And good Mr. Millington is not chairman of the committee now.

Yes, yes, my reverend chairman of council school managers.

Church, church, the teachers should go to church.

Now the rector had his wife with him for a school manager, also the rector of Shimpling, to say nothing of a churchwarden and a glebe tenant.

The rector of Burston had seen to this immediately after the parish council election.

And then there was Stelnetham Manor, which wasn't really a commune, but it sort of was.

And then places like Shimpling, great big old house that a lot of people lived in, but they kind of bought parts of it.

There was the Globs commune, although that folded in 75.

Yes.