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On Books and Trains Stations

I didn’t want to say anything about Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, but I will say that I deeply approve of the use of the train station. Train stations are magical places: journeys begin and end there. When they were first built, lives ended and began there. Train stations are intersections of everyone’s world: your world with all [...]

Is Something Burning?

We suspect this singe:

On this cat:

Was caused by one of these lights:

Trendy though they may be, it seems that if you have a brain the size of a peanut and a love for heat, heat, glorious heat, halogen lights set at floor level are a little too attractive on a cold winter’s morning.

If they hadn’t attached themselves to [...]

Where-house?

These were taken in January, after we picked up the keys but before our stuff had been moved in. By now I figure that those of you who can make it here to see our new home have, so these photos are for the rest of you.

The building is a converted warehouse from the late 1890’s. Until (I think) [...]