tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post2827416716925275502..comments2024-03-13T07:34:24.149+00:00Comments on The Age of Uncertainty: RestlessSteerforthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07627936539372313828noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-13072383253719205522015-09-29T12:28:28.033+00:002015-09-29T12:28:28.033+00:00Personally I loathe en-suites. Butchers of bedroom...Personally I loathe en-suites. Butchers of bedrooms and slayers of romance. There is a reason that bathrooms should always be separate. And at least you have sons, so the queue for it in the morning shouldn't be too bad.The Poet Laura-eatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07779308486569849157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-16229346153694477922015-09-20T20:43:39.965+00:002015-09-20T20:43:39.965+00:00Brett - Better that way than cluttered.
Lucy - Is...Brett - Better that way than cluttered.<br /><br />Lucy - Is it like 'Rising Damp'?<br /><br />Zoe - It's a quirky, interesting house. Everyone loves it, but...<br /><br />S&S - Very true. I did swear I'd never do it again after our last move.Steerforthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07627936539372313828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-69505348058169634722015-09-20T14:08:49.145+00:002015-09-20T14:08:49.145+00:00It might just be better to remember how ghastly mo...It might just be better to remember how ghastly moving house really is ! <br />SmitoniusAndSonatahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11210817141287881808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-56111670637811015802015-09-18T16:51:35.457+00:002015-09-18T16:51:35.457+00:00a) That Hamilton extract is v funny
b) It may be s...a) That Hamilton extract is v funny<br />b) It may be small but at least it's Victorian rather than post 1960zmkchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-87625846992578201092015-09-17T17:51:54.012+00:002015-09-17T17:51:54.012+00:00Listen to the gnomes! I know someone who lives in ...Listen to the gnomes! I know someone who lives in Lewes in one of those pebble-dash houses. I'm now living at the top of a Victorian house that hasn't been done up for years. I didn't know I had a secret 70s bedsit fantasy... Very happy. Lovely views.Lucy R. Fisherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08632983296994349550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-43402557394619430052015-09-17T03:51:37.467+00:002015-09-17T03:51:37.467+00:00Great post. Keep looking. I was lucky to marry s...Great post. Keep looking. I was lucky to marry someone with a nose for interesting spaces. When we finally bought a modest house in our '40's, the furniture from our tiny apartment looked pitiful in it.Bretthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09389916070547430075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-44621357708724483102015-09-16T12:20:37.729+00:002015-09-16T12:20:37.729+00:00Wow, thanks for adding the clip. It gave me chill...Wow, thanks for adding the clip. It gave me chills!joan.kylerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17015342608992682333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-59065126760998393542015-09-14T13:16:01.095+00:002015-09-14T13:16:01.095+00:00Joan - I've added a very short clip.
It's...Joan - I've added a very short clip.<br /><br />It's a huge pity that such a historic city as Philadelphia has ended up the way it has. From what you say, I can't help feeling that if you don't see much of the family anyway, you should just move somewhere that's right for you. If it's a nice town in New England, I'd imagine that other people would be happy making the journey to come and see you.Steerforthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07627936539372313828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-25362639095681382402015-09-14T12:26:51.050+00:002015-09-14T12:26:51.050+00:00The candlelight event at St. Pancras looks beautif...The candlelight event at St. Pancras looks beautiful. I wish I could have heard the singing.<br /><br />Does anyone live in the perfect place? I think you know I hate Philadelphia, but it's close to the family I hardly ever see anyway. I've thought about moving back to my beloved New England, but then my family would be 6 to 8 hours by car. Now they're all within 2 hours. But the city is noisy and dirty and violent and has no public transportation except buses. I live in a nice neighborhood, and by that I mean that most of the people are nice, but a young man at a concert was shot to death about four blocks from us. This happens on average about every other year in my neighborhood. But it's mostly the lack of efficiency and culture and appreciation of the unique that drives me mad.<br /><br />I hope you find an affordable house that meets all your criteria.joan.kylerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17015342608992682333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-18277119902252254062015-09-14T09:10:48.030+00:002015-09-14T09:10:48.030+00:00Dale - Yes, it's a real problem and I think th...Dale - Yes, it's a real problem and I think the postwar houses compare very unfavourably with their Victorian predecessors. Why, in the age of radio and television, were builders allowed to get away with paper thin walls? The answer, I think is a narrow but spacious three-four storey Georgian-style terrace, with additional insulation against heat loss and noise. <br /><br />Doing up a wreck appeals in some ways, but even they cost an arm and a leg around here.<br /><br />As far as prayers to St Pancras are concerned, I wish that I could believe in these things. Sometimes I agree with the religious figure who said that Hell wasn't fire and brimstone, but simply an absence of faith. <br /><br />Kid - I suppose that even though the house remains the same, everything else is in flux, including yourself. Steerforthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07627936539372313828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-32099022306429619242015-09-14T03:04:14.278+00:002015-09-14T03:04:14.278+00:00Thing is, I've lived in 7 houses in my lifetim...Thing is, I've lived in 7 houses in my lifetime (if you count the one in which I've lived twice as two), so I know what it's like to live 'somewhere else'. It's not so much that I WANT to live elsewhere, it's just that - sometimes - the old place just doesn't seem the same anymore. Although, if I DID move, I know I'd miss the house and regret having abandoned it. (And yet - and yet...)Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-40886698711791095732015-09-14T01:33:16.866+00:002015-09-14T01:33:16.866+00:00Wasn't there some research done last year whic...Wasn't there some research done last year which concluded that the British live in the smallest houses in Europe? (No wonder they spend so much of their income on exiting to pubs and holidays.)<br /><br />It is sometimes possible to find a reasonablypriced larger house in a desirable location if it is very much in need of a reno. But as you don't like builders' noise or disruption, I dare say that's not a solution for the Steerforths either.<br /><br />You sent me off wondering what St Pancras actually did, so Wikipedia was my friend and it was quite saddening. A bolshy "you're not the boss of me" teenage boy who refused to do as emperor Diocletian asked and got terminally shortened as a punishment. <br /><br />However, he is now "popularly venerated as the patron saint of children, jobs and health. His name is also invoked against cramps, false witnesses, headaches and perjury." As you are living in a cramped situation, with children, and worry about your job, St Pancras sounds just the champion for you. Hope any prayers you sent up at his candle event will be answered!Dalenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-85614965407581647232015-09-13T23:00:06.963+00:002015-09-13T23:00:06.963+00:00Kid - It can feel a little like "Damned if yo...Kid - It can feel a little like "Damned if you do, damned if you don't". But what you're doing is simply living the way most people lived in the past, before the phrases 'property ladder' and 'lifestyle' entered the vocabulary. When I was a young boy, most of my neighbours had lived in our street since the 1930s. <br /><br />However, if you're curious about the experience living somewhere else, I suppose house-sitting could be a good way of exploring that.<br /><br />I just want to find somewhere quieter, where I don't have to keep half of my possessions in boxes in the loft. If I ever found that place, I'd stay put. But if I had to stay here, it wouldn't be the end of the world. Steerforthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07627936539372313828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-26878479754101105382015-09-13T22:22:54.411+00:002015-09-13T22:22:54.411+00:00I first moved into my present house 43 years ago. ...I first moved into my present house 43 years ago. I say 'first' because after 11 years we moved away, only to return 4 years later. I've now been back here 28 years and would probably find it difficult to settle anywhere else due to the fact that I need the familiar around me. However, at times I feel I only continue to live here because it's a link to my youth, and think about what it would be like to move. Then I sort of panic at the idea of living in a house in which I have no history and shudder at the thought. (And yet - and yet...)Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.com