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A Goose For Christmas is a heartwarming story from 1950s rural Oxfordshire as a family prepares for Christmas with more than a little trepidation. Based on real events, and recalling a bygone, pre-television age and a childhood that will be familiar to the post-War generation. The Adventures of the Carson Gang relates life as children, learning and exploring the world around them, making their own entertainment out of fantasies and the opportunities that the village presented to them.

For rural England, the 1950s and 1960s was a time of dramatic transition and change as we moved from wartime austerity with the radio and the local cinema as our entertainment, into the age of TV and the motor car. Social changes and changes in attitudes to sex, religion and the class system were also to have a major impact on rural life. This book attempts to capture this time of change as it affected the small hamlet of Fawler in North Oxfordshire, and to record for posterity a way of life now largely lost. It deals, sometime frankly, but sensitively with life as experience by the author ...

An illustrated version of In The Blink of an Eye. An account of growing up in the small North Oxfordshire hamlet of Fawler during the late 1950's and early 1960's as post-war Britain headed towards the age of television and the motor car anf a rulral way of life that had been substantially unchanged since the Middle Ages was on the point of disapearing. With contributions by the author's sister, and illustrations by Catherine Webber-Hounslow