East, West, Brenchley's Best

[desperance]

Idly doing blogsearches while I wait for a competent friend to turn up with a box of tools and a pair of daughters, to try and fix my door while amusing Barry, I find that Siegfried Sassoon grew up in Brenchley (a rather lovely & very English village in Kent). I am touched by this - and reduced to giggles by the webpage, which consents to admit that he "became a very famous war-poet" in that single throwaway phrase, in the midst of a long, long post about all the men he may or may not have slept with, darling. La.