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Figure in a landscape

The writer Ronald Blythe, celebrated for his observations on literature, the Church, and the countryside, is 90 next week. He talks about his life and times to Malcolm Doney

BOTTENGOMS FARM looks like a fairy-tale cottage. Or that is how it seems in the pen-and-ink drawing at the top of Ronald Blythe's regular column, "Word from Wormingford", on the back page of the Church Times.

There is a similar sense of mystery when you drive up the track, and find the house (it is not a cottage) nestling in a fold of land, wreathed by dense vegetation.

You almost expect the door to be opened by someone Grimm or hobbit-like. But, instead, its ...

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