By Loretta Humble/Around the Town
A few of you have wanted to know where I’ve been the last couple of weeks. Well, my body has been at my house dealing with a bad cold that went rogue. (I’m better now, thank you.) The rest of me has been spending a lot of time in quaint English villages, where flowering vines cover most of the buildings, where there is almost always a festival going on, where old ladies in headscarves have a lot to say about whatever is going on. There are also quite a few murders, but usually the victims weren’t very likeable, and an eminently likeable past-middle-aged detective named Tom Barnaby and his young sergeant, currently named Ben, always find the culprits. I’ve come to know DCI Barnaby and his family quite well: his wife Joyce, a stay-at-home partner, a great homemaker, but not a very good cook, who works hard in all the worthwhile community events, and his daughter Culley, an aspiring actress, who recently married a rock musician. These folks have become my second family as I have been binge-watching till I’m half-way through the 20 seasons of Midsomer Murders on Netflix. (Actually I think the 20th season is on Amazon, not Netflix.)
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