26-10-2023, 06:21 PM
(26-10-2023, 03:02 PM)Jez Wrote: I recall a time when from his front door to his back door several rooms away you had to walk sideways through a tight "corridor" between all this gear!...Ah yes, and much of the floor carpeted with upturned CRTs... more than once he said to me "What this place needs is a woman's touch... but without the woman!"
Novelist Hugh Walpole, a "confirmed bachelor" as they used to say, adopted an adult son to inherit his estate: maybe we should start looking out for a person or persons significantly younger than us who might welcome a legacy of 300+ radios and/or 4000 books. Whatever happens to them eventually, in the meantime we get to live with them.
Paul
