‘What is this, please?’ I said to the estate agent, as he showed me into the building site he was calling a house.
‘This,’ he said beaming, ‘is the kitchen and breakfast room area.’ I picked my way over the rubble and stood in the dark, pokey room with its walls of hideous grey breezeblock.
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