Taking Gilt Off
“It was the custom of our old rector of the little church on Sudeley Castle Estate on Evensong Sundays to take two boys to his home for tea. This Was a mixed blessing, for just as one went for his housekeeper’s rock cakes (and they would have taken some beating) he would ask, ‘What do you remember of my sermon this afternoon?’ or *What is the Collect for the day?’ Odd, isn’t it how adults have the knack of taking the gilt off golden moments?”—Albert Butler in a 8.8. C. broadcast about his childhood at Sudeley Castle
at Winchcoinbe in Gloucester, where he trained as a gardener.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31345, 15 April 1967, Page 5
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