Last week we met up with some of our old neighbours, including Ronald & Mirren who used to live next door to us for years and years. In fact, they were there when we moved in, which reminded me that it was exactly 40 years ago this month. Kara was only nine months old at the time and it wasn't just cold that Fenruary: it was snowing! The house was huge and empty. There was no cooker in the kitchen and the sink was rotting.. You could fill the upstairs bath OK but the water refused to leave when you pulled the plug. There were no carpets or curtains anywhere. To go to bed we had to get undressed in the hall, switch the lights off and crawl into the mattress on the floor of the front bedroom.
We lay there the first night listening to the sound of melting snow dripping through all the leaks in the roof, remembering our warm comfy flat in Peel Street and thought "What have we done???"
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