They cancelled the onions.

Newent used to hold an Onion Fayre where people ate raw onions for fun. That was the highlight, and they stopped it. Now it's a nice little market town with a timber Market House, a lake and wild daffodils, and absolutely nothing to do. New houses keep going up and nobody knows what the people in them will do either.

Heavy rain brings sewage up out of the manholes, which is about the most that happens. There are hardly any buses after 7pm, so you can't even leave to look for something better.

The editor, who brought his own onion