They put up a parking lot

Listening on the radio to a conversation about Joni Mitchell, aged 80 and still performing from time to time, led to this prompt. Somehow, I managed to get side-tracked into fairy princesses again. Maybe it was the ice cream castles in the air. Sorry!

The reason they moved here was because it was a great place to raise kids. The village was small, old, with a church dating back to the Normans, and a school considerably younger but not in its first youth by any means. The heart was the grandl...