Musings from the Merse
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
From Huttonian to Dinger?
First step in a possible exit strategy from Hutton occur ed this morning when a surveyor called to value the Old Manse (Highly Desirable; inspection recommended; unrepeatable offer; hurry) Actually no hurry as we have yet to find somewhere to lay our head elsewhere; elsewhere being limited to Duns(Where they do have mains gas,a Sheriff, cable, shops, pubs,people in the streets,golf course,parks, a castle, tennis courts piscie church and possibly even beautiful Polish plumbers)
The life of a pond rather than of a puddle.All the things which are good about Hutton are less desirable as time goes one. Too big a house, too big a garden,too small a village, too remote an isolation.
So if anyone knows a nice smaller house going in Duns be sure to let us know-no Bungalows please by wifely diktat.
Huttonian will of course live on Weblog wise.
But we have to work 'Dinger' in somewhere
Comments:
Whilst I applaud your anticipated move to Duns (whose people have done much to make this incomer of 15 years feel at home) I have to take issue with your wife's bias against bungalows. We moved somewhat unwillingly 3 years ago from a listed 19th century stone cottage to this rather less picturesque mid-1980s bungalow. It took some adjusting - I still find myself saying that I'm 'going up to bed'- but now I'm totally sold on one floor living (and I'm not even 50 yet). A study a couple of years ago found (how?) that bungalow dwellers are happier than all other homeowners ...
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Farmer C has e-mailed as follows:
Good Morning, Sir. I was recently reading your blog, and I thought...one notes with surprise that you intend to flee this " financially unsustainable, quasi-child-free, socially depived, geriatric enclave" not because the tranquil idyll is being infinged by the conversion of some derelict farmsteads, the addition of a few more houses and some road improvements around the outlying settlements, but because Hutton is "TOO SMALL A VILLAGE, TOO REMOTE AN ISOLATION"! Talk about the road to Damascus - it has obviously nothing on the B6461!!!!"
No actually it is the Traffic through Hutton which is getting us down Bypass and some infill Mansions Please.
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Good Morning, Sir. I was recently reading your blog, and I thought...one notes with surprise that you intend to flee this " financially unsustainable, quasi-child-free, socially depived, geriatric enclave" not because the tranquil idyll is being infinged by the conversion of some derelict farmsteads, the addition of a few more houses and some road improvements around the outlying settlements, but because Hutton is "TOO SMALL A VILLAGE, TOO REMOTE AN ISOLATION"! Talk about the road to Damascus - it has obviously nothing on the B6461!!!!"
No actually it is the Traffic through Hutton which is getting us down Bypass and some infill Mansions Please.
