Tony Walker

James uses also East Anglia, mainly Suffolk and Cambridgeshire, rather than Norfolk, which Norfolk, the North folk, Suffolk, the South folk.

So, you know, Norfolk is north of Suffolk.

So it's a really good desk.

I think Christmas Eve spent in the Haunted Hulk is also another story, not by him, but is also set in Norfolk in this landscape.

And of course, further down in the Thames estuary, Essex and the Kent part, then Dickens uses that marshy flat area.

But Norfolk is really flat.

And it's also a popular summer holiday area for boating, which is why the bungalow has a boathouse and why the contrast with the February snowstorm is so effective.

And A.J.

Allen kept a second home at Potterham, exactly where the story set.

for sailing on the Norfolk Broads.

So he knew this area really well.

Also we should say the East of England is much colder and snowier than the West because the weather blows in from the North European plain and ultimately Siberia.

So it can be cold and it's dry in the summer and cold and snowy in the winter.

Okay, other things to explain.

If you were renting or hiring or whatever the word would be, renting a cottage, a holiday cottage, they would say if it came with plate and linen.

So the bungalow in this case comes with cutlery, crockery, this is the plate, and bed linen, towels and tablecloths so you don't have to bring your own.

So it signals a reasonably well-appointed let rather than a bare shelf.

so this is um so the the old lady come in and oblige me so i just wondered oh dear we're gonna have any titters at that um what it means is charring a charwoman or domestic service done as a favor rather than as a formal employment so she's coming in he pays her for it but it's that phrase a black to oblige me is to to to clean up

and do the domestic work.

So Mrs. Selston isn't a servant.