Editorial
THUNDER, rumble, roar, whoooosh.. .what's this then? The M25? No! Our own Mill Hill at going-to-school time, with push-chairing Mums accompanying little kids on bikes having to wait ages before they can even think about crossing, let alone safely. Actually, forget safely, that'sright out.
So just how long can this go on? Until the unthinkable happens (as it very nearly did last month) and a pedestrian crossing can then be "prioritised"? But did it take any squelched High Street cyclists to buy that daft cycle-path paraphernalia at the start of the High Street? Come on Councillors, lay off school-parking Mums (who can blame them) and turn up on the Mill Hill school-route at 8.30 am where the real scandal's happening and you too can try your luck at compulsory chicken.
Yes, it's October and the Crier is back with lots of news and some old faces. Firstly, the venerable Allix dynasty - 200 years squires of the village. Many Priorites thought it vanished, but not so: it's just that the line continued through the daughters - read all about what happened and who the family is now in Michael Casenove's interesting communication to Letters.
Next, joy of joys, Geoffrey Woollard is back at the PC. Long-time readers will know that Geoffrey has strong views on quite a lot of things - just how we like it in these pages - and since he went, Our Reporter has been flicking paper-clips and sharpening pencils, only waiting for this moment to arise. Ah yes, and what more appropriate time for the Crier to start republishing a few archive extracts of previous encounters for background: next month perhaps!
Music correspondent Jim Henderson returns with a review of Ian de Massini's magnificent September Bach in St Cyriac's, which incidentally is going to get a make-over, including among other things a KITCHEN and UNDERFLOOR HEATING (the LOO is going in St Mary's, we hear) - so more concerts all year round, we hope, and the continentlychallenged need fear no more.
And TILLAGE: read all about this huge National event on Prior's doorstep as James Wilmot reveals all. See you Halloweening!