We have a meeting with our architects this morning, and I’m a little nervous. Bits of our house keep falling off, in the form of rather heavy tiles that crash to the ground quite alarmingly.* It’s an old house, 90+ years, so it’s doing pretty well really, but we do feel that perhaps some ongoing maintenance may be in order to prevent us one day waking up in a pile of rubble.

I’m thinking something like a few nails and some superglue, but I know our architects have very high standards, and feel that no expense should be spared (ours) in keeping its strict character heritage intact. One of them even wrote us a letter about how he used to walk past our house as a poor architecture student, and admire the purity of its lines and the virginal simplicity of the terra-cotta tiling. He almost cried when I said I thought they were ugly.

Wish me luck.

*to any lawyers: these tiles fall to the ground in the most harmless fashion, with never any suggestion that anyone’s life or limbs could be at risk.