Think carefully before making a public statement

To start with: “Teachers”, a TV newsreader has just told us “are threatening to boycott government exams for 10-11-year-olds unless the government agrees to scrap them”.

In which case, presumably, the teachers would very sensibly agree to withdraw their non-existent boycott.

Secondly, I read in Bryant’s Norfolk Churches (1915) that in the parish church at Gissing “There is seating accommodation for 150 persons, some of them retaining their old carved poppy-heads”.

I have made many friends in the village since moving here three years ago, but none answering to this description. Much, of course, has changed in the past ninety years.