Dibley Lives

With the Vicar of Dibley sitcom no longer on our TV screens the next best like entertainment is provided by the annual meeting of the village parish council at which residents can (and do) make comments and ask questions of the Chair and Clerk; tonight’s topics ranged from the sublime (“why are we paying to repair the church tower clock when the Church of England is the richest landowner in the country”), through the mundane (lack of bus service, dog fouling, speeding cars and inconsiderate parking – which to be fair does reduce the speeding cars), to the ridiculous suggestion of a village event to mark the Queen’s 90^th birthday, not when it happened a month ago but on her “official” birthday next month which will be her 64^th such – hardly a ‘biggy’ that one.