Time was when a person had a bathtub in the living room because they didn’t have a bathroom in the house – who, after all, wants to sit shivering in a tub in the yard when there’s plenty of room for it in front of the fireplace?
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These days, however, a [...]

This morning, I got woken up, not by the familiar sound of my alarm, but by a series of thumps on my front door.  Not knocks: thumps.
By the time I’d recovered from leaping out of bed at high speed, scrambled for my dressing gown, and stumbled down the stairs, two workmen were emerging through the [...]