The cottage of dreams
The front:
Through the front door:
the kitchen:
and the route home (along the towpath, over a bridge, up the lane,over a train track, through a field of cows and up another lane)
So, I saw the cottage. I have endless ideas, thoughts and dreams, but I just can't see how I can live them out. Thankfully there are many dreams in this world, and many moments to live out. I just love the look of this place, and I will always love a ruin. I always have. Indeed, there was a beautiful cottage not far from Bicester that I fell in love with. The oven was a stone fire, and the bathroom was a bath in the garden that filled with rain water. Like this cottage it was boarded up. I enquired about a mortgage, and all was going well but then I learnt that the owners were going to embark upon a dutch auction. I pulled out. There would probably have been more frogs there than I would have been happy with.
I love this place, I don't know why, I just do. Whoever ends up with it will have a faulous time making it habitable and exploring its potential. What will be a complete loss, is if a developer buys it, or someone wanting to make some money. This place needs to be cherished, looked after and fulfilled. Sadly that requires a healthy income, and academics like me can only dream!
Dont get me wrong, I am VERY thankful for what I do have!
Through the front door:
the kitchen:
and the route home (along the towpath, over a bridge, up the lane,over a train track, through a field of cows and up another lane)
So, I saw the cottage. I have endless ideas, thoughts and dreams, but I just can't see how I can live them out. Thankfully there are many dreams in this world, and many moments to live out. I just love the look of this place, and I will always love a ruin. I always have. Indeed, there was a beautiful cottage not far from Bicester that I fell in love with. The oven was a stone fire, and the bathroom was a bath in the garden that filled with rain water. Like this cottage it was boarded up. I enquired about a mortgage, and all was going well but then I learnt that the owners were going to embark upon a dutch auction. I pulled out. There would probably have been more frogs there than I would have been happy with.
I love this place, I don't know why, I just do. Whoever ends up with it will have a faulous time making it habitable and exploring its potential. What will be a complete loss, is if a developer buys it, or someone wanting to make some money. This place needs to be cherished, looked after and fulfilled. Sadly that requires a healthy income, and academics like me can only dream!
Dont get me wrong, I am VERY thankful for what I do have!
posted by MortimerBones at
9:26 PM
8 Comments:
Dreams are good!
Wouldn't it make the most beautiful-est home? Let's all chip in and buy it together and take turns living in it.
When looking at it did you not feel a book coming on? There must be an inspired publisher who would give a generous advance.
People have done madder things. I think the crucial question is whether you can actually make something of it from which you can actually recoup (most of) what you might spend on it!
Mukiwa - that sounds fabulous, do you know one?!
No. However I do know an author so I'll ask him what he would suggest.
Valonia - don't tempt me!
i would be more than happy to write a book about any subject, however I suspect in todays climate it is pretty difficult getting a publisher....
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