Home alone

YOU can’t just throw it all in a skip, Mum!” Bryony’s voice was muffled by a dust mask as she crouched in the loft space, carefully avoiding bumping her head on the beams. She examined a battered trun

Apart from the For Sale board, the house didn’t look any different from the last time I was here. Six months ago now. The day of my father’s funeral. A memory of how fragile my mother appeared that da

TURN right at the end of the road,” the satnav said to the two women seated in the little green van. “Ooh, almost there. We always said we’d live together, didn’t we?” Tilly said. “That’s true. I sort

When Mandy and David Ashcroft found themselves craving space during lockdown, they didn’t imagine the search would lead to a new-build. They’d always gravitated towards older properties and their 1920

It’s not often that buyers fall in love with a house because of external factors. But, for Zoe and Lisa Hyland-Buckeridge, it was the large expanse of parking for their two family cars that won the co

Sylvia was bored to tears. She almost wished she’d gone with the others to the garden centre. But she’d had it with garden centres, and what was the point when the gardens here were looked after by pr