The Watch House

One day, not soon necessarily, but one day I’m going to include this house in one of my stories… I don’t know what the story will be… it may not be for quite a little while… but at some point a house made from wood, which may or may not have been a watch house in its previous life, will feature.

I once stayed in a wooden house, and old wooden house made from pine, and it was totally different from being in a brick house,, it seemed to breathe somehow, I don’t’ mean in a spooky or creepy way, but maybe it was the way timbers give and yield, maybe it was the faint old scent of the wood, maybe it was just my imagination, but it just seemed very different. I have lived in brick-built houses, and I have stayed in stone built houses, but I have never at any other time than this short period of three weeks, lived in a wooden house.

I’m beginning to wonder now who might live in this house… the blue house and the watch tower are two separate buildings in reality… but wait a minute, I don’t think this is the watch tower… I think this is somewhere else, but in my story that wouldn’t matter! I had a sudden memory of the TV programme ‘Through the Keyhole” where viewers were shown the interior of a house owned by a celebrity and had to guess whose it was, the catch-line was ‘Who’d live in a house like this? David, it’s over to you!’ So I’m now wondering who would live in a house like this, a wooden house like this… and where does David figure in the story?