Returning to Worksop in March to carry out the bulk of the renovation, we found ourselves suddenly incapacitated by a nasty car crash.

The allure of the auction struck me for the first time earlier this year when faced with furnishing a newly acquired house

Buying and renovating an old house in Nottinghamshire

Hórreos...granite fortresses protecting grain from battalions of rodents.

When we bought our traditional Asturian house, another building was thrown in.

Three weeks of focused toil has achieved the desired result - now the little house in Asturias is cleaned up but preserved

Virgil and Relu were two hapless Transylvanians dropped off at our property by their boss, Marian, whom we seldom saw without her...

'Visitación is a splendid old house. Six bedrooms, a library and a superb view of the saints around the dome of Jerez Cathedral.'

Seeking some respite from the hot summers of Jerez, we concluded that a cottage in Northern Spain would be a useful bolt hole. We were...

When I was a child I liked to mooch through the drawers and cabinets of our fitted kitchen finding all manner of forgotten things....

Making a garden from a heap of rubble!

As editor of www.memoirist.org I occasionally write the weekly post. This week's piece recalls a bucket list style trip I embarked on...

Remembering this day nearly ten years ago with me in absurd sunglasses like a glamorous reporter. The situation wasn't glamorous and...