That's terrific!

And I know it sounds silly but I'm just so enjoying doing things around the house. Getting down and dirty with that dishwasher! I love it.

How wonderful!

Makes one feel incredibly...connected. Grounded.

I bet.

So I do all the ironing now. You can't get me away from my ironing board! It's terribly, terribly therapeutic...

Well, MY new thing is to utterly REFUSE to buy cheap clothes any more. Ever. Don't you think quality not quantity? Very thrifty! Plus, it's so much greener.

Absolutely. That was exactly our thinking vis the house. With Maria gone, it's only the four of us, so there's no excuse, environmentally, to be heating such a whopping place.

Yes...

And then we thought - well, at that point why not try a whole new part of London?

How brilliant!

So it's goodbye Kensington. Hello...Acton. Which is wonderful because the little state schools are fabulous. And of course it's so close to the motorway...

HOW...LOVELY!...Lucky you! And free schools, too! The mind boggles!

Well, why don't you join us?

Mm?... Oh, if only...