If you ever find yourself stranded at a tiny, backwater station somewhere outside Oxford in the middle of a snowstorm, it turns out there is no one better to have on speed dial than Wendy Veale, proprietor of the Old School Bed and Breakfast.

She will cluck sympathetically about the state of the railways before jumping in the car and making the hour-long round trip from Little Compton to come and pick you up, no questions asked.

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