We’ve had the windows at the front of the house replaced – they were single-glazed, with rotting wooden frames and cracked glass in places. Katy took the children out for the day yesterday to a local park (not the neat flowerbeds kind, more the trees and long grass kind) with a couple of other families, and off to London to do a couple of museums today.
When the downstairs windows were removed the fitters discovered a scrap of newspaper stuck in the frame. It was from Farmer and Stock-breeder, Christmas 1958! (Unfortunately it’s unlikely to appear as the guest publication on Have I Got News For You? as it isn’t in print any more.) I asked them if they’d mind putting a fresh bit in with the new windows and as I didn’t have a paper they put in a bit of theirs – front page of yesterday’s Daily Mirror, featuring Richard Hammond’s first interview since his accident. Not sure what future owners will make of that!
Upstairs they discovered the weights and other bits from the sash windows that were in before the windows they were replacing. As the previous windows’ fitters hadn’t removed the sash windows properly there was some wood rotten enough to push your thumb through…
