LANDLADY ISHBEL
LONG HOLIDAY TO CONVALESCE
Daily visits of a doctor at the Plow Inn, Speen, and the attendance of a nurse gave rise last week to village rumours of a pending interesting event in the lives of Mi’ and Mrs Norman (Tinker) Ridgley. Mrs Ridgley, formerly Miss Ishbel MacDonald, eldest daughter of the late Mr Ramsay MacDonald, rumour said, was expecting a baby. But village rumour was wrong. Mrs Ridgley was very ill with a bad attack of quinsies. And new Mr and Mrs Ridgley have gone on a long motoring holiday— Mrs Ridgley to recuperate, Mr Ridgley, fit, well, and exceedingly happy as mine host of the Plow Inn, to act as nurse, companion, and driver of their car.
“We don’t even know where they have gone,” a servant at the inn told a Sunday Referee correspondent. The gardens and oak-beamed rooms of the picturesque old inn in the Buckinghamshire hills were yesterday crowded with motorists and holidaymakers, many anxiously inquiring foi’ Landlady Ishbel.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 48, Issue 2818, 5 October 1938, Page 2
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