Guy Bond’s family has served Weedon,Bucks, since 1901. Now there’s no one to replace him, and the villagers are crying“He’s been absolutely wonderful. If you were stuck up a ladder,he’d always end and befriend.” Having delivered her paean to the departing milkman of the village of Weedon, a woman in an Aran jumper, or I’d guess in her 70s,took off at the speed of a gazelle before I could ask her name.I couldn’t imagine her getting stuck up a ladder, and I couldn’t imagine anyone who, or seeing a person stuck up a ladder,would not end and befriend. But thats not the point: the point is that, when you lose your village milkman, or you lose much more than milk.
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Source: theguardian.com