Homes

We were counting up the number of different dwellings in which we had lived during the 50+ years we have been married, and came up with eleven that we occupied for more than a few weeks. Our first home was the flat in Stone, Staffordshire, above, followed by....

....the bungalow at Bernard Mizeki College in Rhodesia, the ground-floor flat in Bristol, the small dormer-bungalow in Ludlow, bungalow number 1 at Excelsior College in Kingston, Jamaica, the Development Corporation house in Basildon, the house in Hockley, Essex....

....the lovely Victorian red-brick house in Maldon, Essex, the house attached to the Ferry Stores in Kilchoan, Matenderere in Kilchoan, and our present bungalow.

To this, I have to add, from the years before we were married, two houses in Dar-es-Salaam, four houses in Mombasa, including the beautiful beach-front Hoey house at Nyali, above, and three houses my parents had while I finished school and moved on to university in the UK.

I would like to think that we left the houses we've owned in better condition than when we entered them. Building our own house in Kilchoan was something I wouldn't have missed, particularly as, with the design done by our daughter and son-in-law, we managed to capitalise on the site's position, and we are certainly leaving our present little bungalow in a much better state than when we found it.