This collection of humorous columns for a rural parish magazine reflects life all year round in a small English village in the beautiful Cotswolds countryside where the author has lived since 1991.  Easy to dip into, this light-hearted volume provides entertaining reading for anyone interested in community life in rural Gloucestershire and the real-life equivalent of the fictional village of Wendlebury Barrow, the parish that is the setting for Debbie Young's fiction books. It is the sequel to All Part of the Charm, a collection of nostalgic essays and parish magazine columns. Debbie Young also writes warm, witty novels set in the Cotswolds: the Sophie Sayers Village Mysteries, starting with Best Murder in Show, and the Staffroom at St Bride's series, starting with Secrets at St Bride's, set in a quirky English girls' boarding school in the same parish. Her quick read Tales from Wendlebury Barrow series, including The Clutch of Eggs and The Natter of Knitters, also provides an entertaining window into the joys of English village life.

"The Jewel in the Crown of the Tetbury Advertiser." Debbie Young's warm, witty columns have been entertaining the readers of the multiple-award-winning Tetbury Advertiser for over ten years. In this second volume of her collected columns, spanning from 2016 to 2020, her reflections on world events from her quiet corner of the beautiful English Cotswolds put  positive and humorous spin on rural life when the rest of the world seems to have gone crazy. Against a truly historica backdrop that includes the rise and fall of President Trump, the interminable Brexit process, and the emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic, Debbie's columns remains upbeat and optimistiic, carrying the reader along with her to a place of safety and comfort. This non-fiction collection bears the hallmark of the gentle English humour from her many fiction books, which are inspired by her love of country life.  By the author of the Sophie Sayers Village Mysteries, the Tales from Wendlebury Barrow, and the St Bride's School mystery series.