I am at last catching up on my recordings, and heard a musical duo playing in Cranford, outside the shop where there was a display about the railway. A very twiddly version of Cosher Bailey.

Lark Rise actually made a point that the folk songs of Flora's childhood had been lost, so I suppose the best people could do was find something as near as possible. For that and Cranford.

I comer to the conclusion that I have a very odd attitude to anachronism. I have, in fact, used it quite deliberately in school drama in the past, having fairies in about 1066 (Edric Wilde's story) dancing to Scott Joplin. But some things rankle. I was alerted to churchy things ages ago by a friend who pointed out that a version of Jane Eyre had church altar furniture that simply wouldn't have been used at the time. It's to do with ideas, and how people thought. I knew people who were alive when Lark Rise was set. They didn't think like that.

But I also object to Werther's Originals claiming that English grandads would have had their product as children. A German sweet, during rationing. I daresay they were a bit thin on the ground in their home country at the time. And Trebor Bassett tried it with claiming that a fruit sweet introduced in the last couple of decades had been enjoyed in the 50s at Saturday Matinees.

Penny