Living in Fiction

[drplokta]

From Little, Big by John Crowley:

It was a county map or something, much more detailed than Smoky's; he found the constellation of towns he knew of, neatly outlined, but nothing for Edgewood. "It should be somewhere around these." Jeff found the stub of a pencil, and with a "hmmm" and a "let's see," connected the centers of the five towns with a five-pointed star. The pentagon enclosed by the lines of the star he tapped with the pencil, and raised his sandy eyebrows at Smoky. An old map-reader's trick, Smoky surmised.

Also, James Bond grew up in Pett Bottom in the next valley to the north-west of us, and Diana Villiers (from Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin books) moved to Barham Down to raise horses, just to the north-east of us.

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[maeve-the-red.livejournal.com]

I grew up in the 'Midsomer', i.e. the Chilterns, which is where TV crews came, and still do, for 'rural setting'. The houses in the nearest village had their TV aerials on pulleys, so they could winch them down during filming, I've lost count of the number of times the church D and I got married in has appeared in Agatha Christie mysteries.