by Huguenot Jo | Mar 13, 2023 | Bedfordshire, Memoir, Puritanism
Why they called me Joy I don’t know. When the midwife asked my mother for my name, she thought she heard the reply “Joey”. If only. They needed a boy, to inherit the family butcher business. I was the last …by Huguenot Jo | Nov 27, 2022 | Bedfordshire, Puritanism
Bedfordshire, where I grew up, is a dull county of no note in the middle of England. It probably does deserve its own day to give it a boost, especially since Northamptonshire – another dull county in the middle …