Country life: the joys of the rustic – archive, 10 February 1928

10 February 1928 In the country we contrive to manage our affairs with considerable comfort - townfolk are aghast to find that our newspaper is on the table before breakfast

Buried in the country? Not a bit of it!" The time of the singing of birds has come! The dullness of country life is often held up as one the chief drawbacks to a rural existence. Perhaps to some people it is more agreeable to wake in early dawn to the rhythmic sound of gate after gate clanging behind the postman, the milkman, with an accompaniment of clattering pails and hurrying feet. But how pleasant it is to open wide the window, the better to hear the first tuning-up in spring of the blackbird on the orchard bough and the throstle in the garden. A little while and the town-lover of sensitive ear would doubtless close the window because the concert begins too early and the music is fortissimo.

Related: Between town and country - Country diary, 18 November 1918