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Category Archives: house-buying
Homes
I’ve just heard from a friend who’s been made temporarily homeless for absurd legal reasons in England. Which makes Jesus’ General’s typically acerbic take on the McCain housing problem all the more pertinent, albeit obliquely. You can read it here.
The house above the cork forest (5)
I admit it. I’ve been putting this off. At the end of my last post about the house, Joost wanted closure. We all did. When it came, or appeared to have come–when finally, after more than a year of delays … Continue reading →
The house above the cork forest (4)
Things go from bad to worse. It turns out that the land attached to the house is surrounded by common land, the boundaries of which are time-honoured but undefined. There seems to be a goat path running along the north-eastern … Continue reading →
The house above the cork forest (3)
It should have been so easy. Of course house-buying is more complicated in Italy than elsewhere, by which I suppose I mean northern Europe, as Joost, our Dutch friend, certainly did. But we’d been through it ourselves, twice, friends had … Continue reading →
The house above the cork forest (2)
We had a phone call from Joost, our friend’s friend/colleague, who’d seen photographs of the house and wanted to know more. He’s Dutch, a director of photography; he’s done scores of TV ads and even features. He’d been in touch … Continue reading →
The house above the cork forest
Four houses really, each one a three floored tower attached on two sides to the rest of the building, so that cut across the house would look like a slice of that neapolitan ice cream you used to be able … Continue reading →
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