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Tony Walker

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The Classic Ghost Stories Podcast
My Adventure in Norfolk by A J Alan

So there was all sorts of rules and manners and it showed what class you belong to.

The Classic Ghost Stories Podcast
My Adventure in Norfolk by A J Alan

Or you could talk about you're going to have your dinner.

The Classic Ghost Stories Podcast
My Adventure in Norfolk by A J Alan

When you mean your lunch, because the working class have dinner at lunchtime because they were traditionally they were servants.

The Classic Ghost Stories Podcast
My Adventure in Norfolk by A J Alan

So the main meal of the day was at lunch because their masters would eat their main meal in the evening and have to serve on them.

The Classic Ghost Stories Podcast
My Adventure in Norfolk by A J Alan

So they couldn't have the main meal.

The Classic Ghost Stories Podcast
My Adventure in Norfolk by A J Alan

That's how I've heard it described anyway.

The Classic Ghost Stories Podcast
My Adventure in Norfolk by A J Alan

So it's all about class.

The Classic Ghost Stories Podcast
My Adventure in Norfolk by A J Alan

Yeah, she was working class.

The Classic Ghost Stories Podcast
My Adventure in Norfolk by A J Alan

And she's a criminal, of course, because as... This is a slight aside here, talking about the 1940s and intelligence work in the Foreign Office.

The Classic Ghost Stories Podcast
My Adventure in Norfolk by A J Alan

Of course, the great thing, there were the famous KGB spies, the Cambridge spies, Philby, Burgess, Maclean, Blunt, etc.

The Classic Ghost Stories Podcast
My Adventure in Norfolk by A J Alan

And they couldn't believe they would be spies because they were...

The Classic Ghost Stories Podcast
My Adventure in Norfolk by A J Alan

gentlemen.

The Classic Ghost Stories Podcast
My Adventure in Norfolk by A J Alan

So they were of the upper middle class.

The Classic Ghost Stories Podcast
My Adventure in Norfolk by A J Alan

So this idea that a working class person could be a criminal, of course, they would be, but one of us couldn't be.

The Classic Ghost Stories Podcast
My Adventure in Norfolk by A J Alan

So this is pointing there.

The Classic Ghost Stories Podcast
My Adventure in Norfolk by A J Alan

So we talked about a funeral, ablative absolute.

The Classic Ghost Stories Podcast
My Adventure in Norfolk by A J Alan

So if you went to an English public school, which is an English private school, you would be taught Latin.

The Classic Ghost Stories Podcast
My Adventure in Norfolk by A J Alan

So you would be taught about your ablative absolute.

The Classic Ghost Stories Podcast
My Adventure in Norfolk by A J Alan

And those people in his class that he's talking to, who would be listening to it, would know very much what he was talking about.

The Classic Ghost Stories Podcast
My Adventure in Norfolk by A J Alan

But he's a funny guy.