Into the first room off the kitchen – the first room in the downstairs of the main building.

Back when I remember it, this had been a dining-room or something like that, with a great big table in the middle, where we all spread round at mealtime. The old kitchen, maybe, before the newer kitchen here was added on? I suppose that somewhen long ago there must have been a stove or range in what’s now the fireplace here on the left, though it had already gone by the time we were here.

Quite a bit of difference now, though. The table’s not here any more, and there’s a bed in the corner instead, over there beneath the front window. Looks like she must have moved in here full-time after Uncle George died. Getting old, I guess – couldn’t manage the stairs any more. A small armchair now, a bedside-table, a footstool and other stuff, with a clothes-rack up against the back wall.

And the spinning-wheel. Oh yes, the spinning-wheel…