Attics

[poliphilo]

When you stow something away in the attic there's a pretty good chance it's never coming down again. Leastways not in your lifetime.

There's a Tutankhamen quality about attics.

When we were down at my mother's she was clearing her attic out and we brought certain things away with us: a 1950s coffee table with an illustrated map of London behind its glass top, a nice wrought-iron fire screen.

I have a book by Father Martin D'Arcy I found in the attic of my old house in Cambridge. It's a ratty old wartime paperbook, totally without value. But I won't get rid of it . It has talismanic value. It's treasure trove.

Since last week we've had an attic of our own. The guy came and laid  flooring in the roof space and put in a trap door and ladder. It's the warmest room in the house.

Our attic is gradually filling up: two lamp standards, a couple of chests of drawers, lots of boxes full of all sorts.

I wonder who will get to bring them down.

Comments

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

I have fond memories of attics - when I was a teenager my parents let me move into the attic (always with the proviso that it would be finished off, which it never has been.) yes, VERY hot in the summer no matter what. Before the wallboard was put up, full of interesting shadows and noises. My folks' house was built in 1900, so it was 55+ when I moved up there.

Now, my brother sleeps in the attic. And I have access to the one here - where I stow all kinds of things I don't need. Or want.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Our attic has an atmosphere. And there's some very nifty brickwork. I've put a stool up there so, if I want to, I can go up there and sit and think.

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

Yes, my folks' does too. The people from whose estate my parents bought the house back in 1953 were lifelong residents of this area and left some interesting journals and recipe books in places all over the house. Mom still has them. The attic had one light bulb then. And the wife of the couple was taken away and committed - she went insane while she was living there, and tried to poison her husband.

Really.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Good gracious. Yes, I'd expect that sort of history to leave an atmosphere behind.