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one version of Yorkshire sheep counting lingo, one to twenty - which I learned from being in a children's opera about a bitter old potter who falls down into caves, meets the four elements, meets the sleeping knights, and then resolves his old pain about not being able to marry his belovèd bilberry queen because she was from a posh family and he wasn't
I was both a rock and a sleeping knight. We were on telly doing this. Gordon Crosse wrote the music. Alan Garner wrote the words. I had a weird but at times enriching childhood










