![]() ![]() ![]() Her life story would-and did-make a riveting documentary, 2017’s The Ballad of Shirley Collins, and it’s far from over. Although I admit that it’s very strange.”īut she’s more than familiar with simple twists of fate, of one’s peacefully chugging existence suddenly hurtling off the rails at a moments’s notice, plunging into darkness, then resuming its sunlit course again at the least expected, eleventh-hour moment. So I don’t mind that I haven’t really been out since March, except in my garden and up and down the street. Because, on the other hand, “We’ve got a castle here, just around the corner from me-a great big Norman castle. “The foxes make the most horrendous noises out here, and it’s always deep in the middle of the night,” sighs the otherwise placidly content 85-year-old. A distinct down side? The country’s now-emboldened vulpine population finally getting even for all those centuries of the cruel Hunt. There are certain plusses and minuses to enduring our current post-pandemic lockdown in the idyllic British countryside, claims legendary folksinger Shirley Collins, from her cottage hideaway in the East Sussex hamlet of Lewes. ![]()
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