As a child, he saw a picture in an encyclopaedia titled «An Everyday
Village Scene», with thatched cottages, a duck pond, a cricket match on the village green: John Major's rural
Village Scene», with thatched cottages, a
duck pond, a cricket match on the
village green: John Major's rural
village green: John Major's rural idyll.
A few water buffalo were plodding home, only stopping when they came to their favorite place, the
village pond, where they drank,
ducks and geese swam, children bathed, women washed their clothes, and men asked one another about their day.