Continuing Story of Cressroads

“Cressroads!

“Sounds a perfect name for a rustic soap. And you do so want to tune into next week’s gripping installment. When Jed goes for DNA testing, learns his wife is also his sister and their rich Uncle Toby discovers another strange growth,’” muses Tichborne bard Charlie Ottley.

Tripping his light fantastic between piano and Primmer bar of the Hampshire Hamlet of Tichborne Arms - an inn with a thatched history since the 1423 Battle of Horic witnessed the Taborites trash the Ultraquists - and ever encouraged to star by the likes of visiting Nick-the-Footlight.

A member of Cambridge University ADC, who seeks to follow oh-so-talently in the satirical footsteps of the likes of 66-year-old Graeme Goodie Garden.

A physician as well as comedy writer and performer, who numbers among three celebrity godparents of Arms’ ex-manager Keogh Irving at the time of absentee Landlord and Lady Day, now rising-29 and gone to South Wales to prop up the human resources department of a busted bank.

Rather it be the bank’s Cardiff office tower, some say, than the mediaeval bar of Hampshire’s ever more popular country pub run by Nicky and Patrick Roper.

A good life couple looking to celebrate the first anniversary of their successful tenancy of the Tichborne Arms this coming St Patrick’s Day (and why the Continuing Story of Cressroads website is next hit by an Irish priest promoted Bishop of Northampton).

Bishop Peter Doyle, once parish priest of St Gregory’s RC Church, Cressroads, looking to come back for more, after hearing Blogsbody’s ‘last’ confession.

As long ago as a decade, when Love-a-Duck salesman Michael French was to witness the former Fleet Street investigative reporter receive absolution with a cigarette in his one hand, a large glass of wine in his other, between fingering the buffet at Winchester’s Royal Hotel for the wake of Old Wykehamist Simon Rothman.

So please forgive me, Father Peter Doyle, ordained 12th Bishop of Northampton almost four years ago, and who is asked to grace St Patrick’s Day in Tichborne and name the charity to benefit most from Blogsbody’s cast of hundreds for the Continuing Story of Cressroads.