Cornwall’s holiday lets are packed – but to a cottage up the coast in Marazion).It’s been months since I squeezed everything I own into a storage unit in London and left with just a suitcase, naively optimistic that I’d soon be in my new house.
Perhaps this period of possessionlessness ought to have taught me a lesson in ‘authentic’ living (like Harry and Meghan), but in truth I miss having stuff.My friend Rob used to complain I’d mistaken my small flat in London, ‘the cupboard’, for Downton Abbey because it was so crammed with things: candelabra, antique tea chests, bad art made by ex-boyfriends, vintage typewriters, broken record players, cushions of Frida Kahlo paintings, framed photographs, books and books and books – lining walls and.
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