The warm weather brings more than hallelujahs to The Small Street. It also brings all manner of tradesmen, scaffolding, and the constant whirring of power tools as our neighbours too work on their dream houses. The winds of gentrification are sweeping over the Small Street with a gale force, but it is the original residents that give it its character.There is an old stone Pentacostal church on the corner that still boasts a very...
Friday, 29 May 2009
Wednesday, 27 May 2009
Christmas in June
Like the Christmases of our childhood, June 1st looms large on our calendar as the most magical of days. Our plan for that first evening is to have a picnic supper in what will eventually be our new kitchen. We are counting on the fact that the kids will doubtfully be able to stay still for very long. And with any luck within a very short time their squeals of delight as they chase each other around the empty rooms will fill the...
Friday, 15 May 2009
Aromatherapy
The Tall House is full of surprises. Beside the ruin that we rather euphemistically refer to as our front staircase is an incredibly hideous weekend-handyman-special of a flower container. This box is so ugly that we have had to restrain ourselves more than once from impetuously hacking away at it. But for about 10 days out of the year this eyesore is the most beautiful part of the house. For during the first few weeks of May...
