Twins, Sisters, Cousins...? Does it really matter?
What a pleasant surprise to receive the first of many responses to the first-ever bulletin of The Budleigh Chronicle on 20 January. Especially as it had come from thousands of miles away in cyberspace. Well actually it had come in a short hop from Cape Cod on the other side of the Pond, so not really that far at all in this age of instant communication - when the internet works of course. Pioneering transatlantic communication: the stained glass window in All Saints' Church, East Budleigh, commemorating former Budleigh resident George William Preedy Admiral Preedy, the brave captain of HMS Agamemnon who played such an important part in laying that first successful telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean , and who came to live in retirement at Park House in Knowle on the outskirts of Budleigh, would have been thrilled. I was certainly pleased. The friendship link between Budleigh Salterton and Brewster , MA ...