Gossip from Thrush Green

I always include major spoilers (hidden), to help with my memory  issues. Read them at your peril! 

More cosy doings in Thrush Green, a beautiful village in the Cotswolds. 
The Hursts are away in America, and the people that let their house are young, rowdy and unsuitable 
The vicar and his wife go away for a holiday and whilst they are gone the vicarage burns down. Eventually, Charles is given the amalgamated parishes of Thrush Green & Lulling, and the beautiful Lulling vicarage 
Dotty Harmer has not been caring for herself and has a spell in the cottage hospital, followed by a stay with Winnie Bailey, and then her niece moves in with her when she returns to her cottage.
The school mistresses are planning to retire and look for a house to buy together by the sea 
The miserly snobby trio of sisters are robbed of much of their silver  
Albert piggot is getting too old to “care for” the church & grounds. He enjoys caring for Dotty's goat, and takes on more jobs with small animals 
Molly & Ben Curdle have a daughter,  name Anne after her grandmother  

 Very enjoyable cosy read.