[ti:] [ar:] [al:] [by:] [00:03.63]A Beautiful Memory [00:05.44]Er...the loveliest house that I've ever lived in was one [00:11.06]that I lived in with my grandparents when I was a child. [00:13.90]And the name of the house was Crosslands. [00:17.01]And I have some very happy memories of Crosslands. [00:20.43]It was, it seemed, so huge to me as a child. [00:24.32]And it had a lovely living room with a piano in it [00:28.27]and a lovely sort of hall with lots of carpets [00:32.02]and chests and antiques and so on. And there was a mysterious room, [00:36.08]it was the drawing room, and we only used it on Sundays, [00:39.56]or when the vicar came for tea, [00:41.88]or Christmas Day or Easter Day, [00:44.07]and I was used to be amazed about this room [00:46.96]because it had the best furniture in it [00:49.23]but it was covered up with sheets- [00:51.90]it was as if all the furniture was wearing clothes- [00:55.08]and it seemed to me ridiculous [00:57.74]that we couldn't enjoy this beautiful furniture [00:59.78]all the week through really. [01:02.07]And probably my favorite room was the kitchen. [01:05.22]It had a lovely red flagstone floor, [01:08.35]which was always highly polished, and an Aga, [01:12.40]you know, one of those big cookers [01:14.89]that heats the whole room so it was always warm there, [01:18.25]and there was a kind of clothes horse above it [01:20.67]that we used to hang all our clothes on, [01:22.92]and it was just lovely. It was a very warm room [01:26.46]with baked bread and my grandmother used to make ice cream [01:29.97]and we'd eat it in there and... [01:31.72]there was a vegetable garden leading from there [01:34.28]so I spent a lot of time in the vegetable garden [01:37.28]picking peas and eating them—my grandmother used to [01:41.78]get really cross with me because I used to [01:43.70]pick all the vegetables and the fruit for our meals [01:46.22]and then I'd eat half of them, [01:47.98]because they tasted so delicious coming fresh from the garden. [01:51.52]Now, I went back to it a few years ago and it was a big mistake. [01:56.62]They've modernized it inside, [01:59.09]they've got rid of those lovely old fire-places... [02:01.86]have just gone. And they've knocked a wall down [02:05.45]so the drawing room and the living room have [02:08.38]become one big modern plastic kind of room. [02:10.53]But I think what upset me most about it was the feeling [02:14.71]that the house had shrunk, [02:16.31]it had become smaller and that my memory of [02:19.72]this lovely large warm comfortable house [02:22.75]had turned into an old house with modernized rooms inside it. [02:26.89]And it taught me a lesson really, [02:29.24]that you can't go back on the past and recapture it. [02:32.55]But there's a beautiful memory there.

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