Hints and tips:
...There is the squeak of a hinge, the creak of a pew, a suppressed cough, an echo of footsteps (often my own)....
...On my left sat one of Britain’s greatest and most respected novelists and on my right an esteemed historian and warden of an Oxford college....
...If anyone can steer you within range of the elusive badger, or Meles meles, it is Natural England warden David Thurlow....
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