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The time I couldn’t refuse the vicar

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You don’t always need to go far, for a meal you’ll remember the rest of your life. Sometimes it’s just a stroll down the lane.

Back in the day, I spent a year living in a farm cottage with a friend. Turn one way out of the cottage door and follow the lane, you’d come eventually — past the agitated curlew —…