Tower and Town, June 2022

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Editorial: You're not from around here, are you!

‘We will, by an unavoidable error, bring ourselves along to every destination we’d ever wanted to enjoy.’

How to Travel – The School of Life

For this June edition of Tower and Town, I invited my contributors to use the phrase, ‘You’re not from around here, are you’, thinking eventually I would find a more appropriate title. After acquiring the first couple of pieces, I realised it was perfect. It’s what people say, almost word for word.

I invited the following contributors to use the title and a list of questions to help them talk about their thoughts on being originally from somewhere else and settling here in Marlborough.

Many of the people who took part, shared similar thoughts about living here including:

• The people of Marlborough are friendly,

• They don’t [don’t make me] feel like a foreigner here,

• The high street is unusual,

• The town feels like home,

• And a wish for more basic less expensive shops.

Thank you to all those who found a moment to contribute to this edition and thank you to the Tower and Town magazine committee for providing us with an opportunity to sing the town’s praises.

April Nobes