Stairway to Haven - how to convert a loft in no easy stages |
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| A change on the Home Front" creating some defensible space. | ||
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Moving-in We finally moved house in the first week of December 2000. After nearly two years in stately surroundings, the urge to throw paint at the walls had become too strong. A small but stable pile of bricks has been selected
in the old Malting town of Ware, Hertfordshire. In celebration ( relief) of the event Andre has compiled some quotations for your
amusement below...(its better than packing boxes which is what he is supposed to be doing)
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| “Home” is any four walls that enclose the right person.(1) | ||
| “Estate agents. You can’t live with them, you can’t live without them. The first sign of these nasty purulent sores appeared round about 1894. With their jangling keys, nasty suits, revolting beards, moustaches and tinted spectacles, estate agents roam the land causing perturbation and despair. If you try and kill them, you’re put in prison: if you try and talk to them, you vomit. There’s only one thing worse than an estate agent but at least that can be safely lanced, drained and surgically dressed. Estate agents. Love them or loathe them, you’d be mad not to loathe them “ (2) | ||
| Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.(4) | ||
| A house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting children and men in so as to restrict their waywardness and distract them from the longing for adventure and escape they’ve had since time began”.(3) | ||
| (1) Helen Rowland (1875–1950), U.S.
journalist. Reflections of a Bachelor Girl (1903), p. 9. (2) Stephen Fry (b. 1957), British comic actor, author. Stephen, in A Bit of Fry & Laurie, “Lavatories” (1990). (3) Marguerite Duras (b. 1914), French author, filmmaker. Practicalities, “House and Home” (1987; tr. 1990). (4) Norman Douglas (1868–1952), British author. Mr. Keith, in South Wind, ch. 24 (1917). |
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