🗣 'They will have all gone now along with the sliding doors but I can still picture every transformation from cut mouchette to dralon suite, brocade to velvet curtains.'
We very rarely put the big light on unless we were reading and then it was so as not to ‘strain’ our eyes. On all other days we lived in the living room with table and chairs and the piano and a small portable tv which by today’s standards still looks as big as a house with the sliding doors shut and perhaps a table lamp glowing through the ripples of the glass just to make it seem inviting.
Over those years those sliding doors were repurposed. They shut off what became dad’s study room when he was working towards his police exams on the fold away green baize card table when we were told to shush because dad was revising. Mum meanwhile huffed and puffed that they couldn’t invite anyone around because his ‘stuff’ was all over that table but of course she was immensely proud when he passed with flying colours. At Christmas Susan filled the place with once-a-year treats and placed them on the nest of coffee tables. Out came the Blue Tac and the sliding doors were used to display the 100 or so Christmas cards they received every year, a ritual that remained until she died.
In that room dad’s chair was still there, reserved for the man of the house, and quickly vacated as soon as he came in to sit down right next to the fire which metamorphosed from open to teak surround to decorative stone throughout the decades.
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