Sarah – you’ll never blow your own trumpet – so permit me to express our admiration. Forty-three years together allows me to say authoritatively that Sarah has a remarkable talent for creative improvisation. In her hands cheese wax is transformed into demons, socks into hobby-horses, miscellaneous left-overs into wonderful meals. Camouflaged radiators & power-points appear [...]
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Decorated by a cunning woman
Posted in art, furniture, house on May 20, 2007 | 6 Comments »
Dracula’s knocker
Posted in dracula, furniture, house on May 15, 2007 | 6 Comments »
Who on earth would have been brave enough to knock off this knocker from the tradesman’s entrance to Castle Dracula? Why is it on our front door?
The Thunder-box
Posted in furniture, house, plumbing on May 15, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The former cross passage at Knowle Farm was converted into a splendid Victorian ‘gentlemen’s convenience’ comprising an Italianate marble washbasin and separate throne room, with blue floral pan again set in mahogany: all this & brass trimmings too. In the sale preceding ours, in 1923, the particulars dismissed this splendid apparatus as a “W.C. with [...]
