One of the reasons why old people make so many journeys into the past is to satisfy themselves that it is still there.
Ronald Blythe Quotes
The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.
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| Birth: | 6th November, 1922 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Editor, Essayist, Writer |
About
Ronald Blythe is an English writer, essayist and editor, best known for his work Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village, an account of agricultural life in Suffolk from the turn of the century to the 1960s. He writes a long-running and considerably praised weekly column in the Church Times entitled Word from Wormingford.
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