On the basis that I might need a new boiler soon, I thought I had better sell the London flat and move to the Cotswolds.
Fine, so it wasn’t just the gurgling noise coming from the Potterton Performa. I had been pondering my place in the world, which is never a good thing for a person of my nervous disposition to do.
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