Sitting in the Shade with Jeremiah Rust
by Simon Ciappara “I was Sexton here for sixty years, seen eleven vicars out. It don’t tell that on the tablet they put over my bones. Just ‘Jeremiah Rust aged 80’. Nothing poetic or sentimental not even ‘Sexton of this Parish’. They don’t rightly know if I was 80 when they planted me. Don’t even know…