Buying a house is exciting. Doing the renovations that make the new house feel right is demanding and important and can go on for years. Indeed, after selling our big family house just before I retired and using the proceeds to buy two ‘replacements’- one, our current home in the suburbs of London and the other…
Benjamin and John Were Wrong
As a young adult, when friends stayed at our house for more than a few days it raised real difficulties. The problem was that houseguests obliged me not only to be polite and sociable, but also to forgo some of my everyday and precious routines. Accordingly, it suited me to follow an adage which was,…
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