A Month in Ambridge

World events don't chime, but there's a ding-dong over the bells

- Charlotte Higgins

Miasma hangs over Ambridge; an enchantment of sorts. Its inhabitants seem bizarrely foggy about events in the outside world. For example, the word Palestine cannot be spoken in the village. The Malik family have been saying a few prayers during iftar, among which "Let it stop soon" is the nearest anyone has come to mentioning The Situation. They have moved back to their house on the recently sewage-engulfed Beechwood estate - departing their temporary accommodation at the Ambridge Hall B&B perhaps just before the well-meaning joining-in-with-Ramadan by Lynda Snell (MBE) got oppressive. The Snells, on the other hand, are missing the Maliks so much that Constanza upped and died (she's a llama).