"Now I loved that film, Gordon. Full of tragedy and romance and set in beautiful Dorset. Casterbridge was in fact Dorchester. There was a famous poem that Thomas Hardy wrote - 'In a Eweleaze near Weatherbury'. A eweleaze is a meadow Gordon, mainly used for grazing sheep. Thomas Hardy blended real and imaginary landscapes in his fiction and poetry. In his semi-imaginary Wessex, "Weatherbury" is the Dorset town of Puddletown."
Did Mum just say Wattlebury? Where on earth does she get these ideas from? Gordon xxx