Back to Basics

Noi and I were watching a programme this evening about various rather fancy houses that people with a fair amount of cash were intending to buy, or already owned. It says much for our shared perspectives on these matters that when she asked, with regard to one particularly opulent Georgian pile being shown off by its owner, Do you mean people actually live there? and How do they keep it clean? she was, with uncanny accuracy, echoing my very thoughts.