Whatever's Been Going on at Mumblseby?

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One of Flaxborough’s best known and respected senior citizens passed away peacefully this week in the person of Mr Richard Daspard Loughbury. His death took place on Monday at Flaxborough General Hospital after a short illness at Mr Loughbury’s country home, the Manor House, Mumblesby.

       “Christ! Guess who’s kicked the bucket.”

       Mr Loughbury, for many years a solicitor in regular practice in the town, was a noted bowls votary, a Freemason, and at one time a member of Flaxborough Town Council, to whose deliberations he brought wisdom and legal acumen, not unmixed with that brand of humour for which he will be long remembered by local “cognoscentes” of the “bon mot”. He was predeceased by his wife five years ago.

       “I said guess who’s kicked the bucket.”

       Thus Mr Brian Lewcock, auctioneer’s clerk and not much respected junior citizen, addressed from behind Flaxborough’s weekly newspaper the wife who, despite his occasional urging of her to that course, showed no inclination to predecease him.

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