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poliphiloWell, it seems like I just agreed to move to the other side of the country.
My sister has a house she wants to sell in Faversham and we've said we want to buy it. Faversham is one of my favourite places. When I was an undergrad in the early 70s I discovered it on one of my Larkinesque church-crawls out of Canterbury and decided it was where I'd like to retire. I saw myself taking long crepuscular walks along the tow path by the reedy, rushy river, stick in hand, labrador at side, making my peace with the universe. Who'd have thought it, but perhaps that's what I'm really going to end up doing.
But without the labrador. I'm not trading bunny for a dog.
Back in the 70s Faversham was an undiscovered country of perfect Georgian houses (recently spared from the wrecking ball) and Shakespearian associations (Arden of Faversham- groovy little film noir of an Elizabethan tragedy is one of the worthier items in the Shakespeare apocrypha). Now the yuppies have found it and they've built nice apartments (out of our price range) along the tow path by the reedy, rushy river and Umbrian entrepreneurs are selling exotic, garlicky foodstuffs in the street market. Never mind, it's still next door to Heaven.
And now things are going to start getting intense.
My sister has a house she wants to sell in Faversham and we've said we want to buy it. Faversham is one of my favourite places. When I was an undergrad in the early 70s I discovered it on one of my Larkinesque church-crawls out of Canterbury and decided it was where I'd like to retire. I saw myself taking long crepuscular walks along the tow path by the reedy, rushy river, stick in hand, labrador at side, making my peace with the universe. Who'd have thought it, but perhaps that's what I'm really going to end up doing.
But without the labrador. I'm not trading bunny for a dog.
Back in the 70s Faversham was an undiscovered country of perfect Georgian houses (recently spared from the wrecking ball) and Shakespearian associations (Arden of Faversham- groovy little film noir of an Elizabethan tragedy is one of the worthier items in the Shakespeare apocrypha). Now the yuppies have found it and they've built nice apartments (out of our price range) along the tow path by the reedy, rushy river and Umbrian entrepreneurs are selling exotic, garlicky foodstuffs in the street market. Never mind, it's still next door to Heaven.
And now things are going to start getting intense.
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Date: 2006-05-17 10:14 am (UTC)I'm just delighted for you.
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Date: 2006-05-17 12:54 pm (UTC)There's a chance, an outside chance, that he and Sara might want to buy this house from us.
But, no, we can't afford to move without having the money from the sale in the bank.
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Date: 2006-05-17 01:05 pm (UTC)Even so, it's a lovely house, and very sellable, I imagine.
Somehow I have a good feeling about this, that it will turn out well.
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Date: 2006-05-17 01:17 pm (UTC)Houses sell quickly in this part of town. Muslims snap them up, because they're big and roomy and well-suited to their large, extended families.
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Date: 2006-05-17 01:30 pm (UTC)Are you taking (I hope so) your little villages and Kinderpeople?
And don't forget the Wooden Woman, who is in for another journey, it seems.
Wonderful! I look forward to much good reading in the weeks to come.
My best to Ailz!
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Date: 2006-05-17 01:44 pm (UTC)Ailz says "Yo!"