yup the thatcher repairing the roof next to Joy's farmhouse has definitely finished.

Not allowed to use Norfolk (and good) reed - because we live a long way from marshland and the broads. Has to be wheat straw which doesn't last as long. And this is a ruling from a council that allowed a business down the road to start a factory salvaging blue asbestos and built a stable block (that never existed) into an office.
Money must have talked there - no doubt about it. Corruption? Not a bit of it - quite a lot - all over the district jurisdiction.