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There’s a large chalk cross upon an incline (or decline, depending on which way you’re heading) of a Chiltern hill. It’s called Whiteleaf Cross.

Januarys are always a bit slow. A couple of scribbles on his calendar reminded him when to put the brown bin out, and of a visit to the dentist on the fourteenth. And in February the brown bin routinely moved to and fro.

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep*. And to summarize, He created light, sky, land, sea, vegetation, day, night and then creatures, respectively.

It could have been anywhere in the nineteenth or twentieth century. Or there abouts. Nothing really helped you determine anything more precise. And, it could have been anywhere in the country. But, the country was definitely England. . . .