Freddie-the-Beeb boxes clever with founding cast of Cressroads
Blogstones for milestones, Blogsbody’s Continuing Story of Cressroads, a microcosm of small town UK at the start of the 21st century - although more than a handful of its haves as well as have-nots would argue otherwise - has posted a trail of 40 blogs to mark out the territory for its developing cast of 500 with a claim to a place in a series of BBC films featuring British eccentricity.
They are the inhabitants of the watercress capital of the world, a Georgian market town called Alresford, population 5,000 and attracting twice its number to their annual May festival celebrating what remains of the crop, after scores of swans munch through hundreds of thousands of squids worth of their green, green cress of home at every start to every year.
