LJ Idol series 8, week 20. Open subject.

[jacq22]

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[alien_infinity]

The orchard seemed to me to be a living thing, closing around us as we slept, scratching its gnarled branches against the cobwebbed windows. Trying to reach me.

I liked this line. :)

[jacq22]

Thanks, but it was quite scary in the winter. Going out with a torch to the dark orchard (for the toilet) was even more scary.

[n3m3sis42]

It sounded scary to me!

[path124]

I love the photos you include with your stories....they make it all feel so complete.

Such a wonderful sounding place to live, to explore and to just have fun. It was an awesome looking house that your dad built. Very nice indeed. And the gypsie house is a sight to behold...so tiny in comparison to yours.

I think Cuckoo Lane would have been a lovely place to grow up in, and it's nice you have such fond memories from your time there.

Well done on getting to week 20 too! :)

[jacq22]

The Gypsys also had another little cabin, and another caravan. Henry slept in the pink one! (wasn't pink then) the girls slept in the other one; each of our properties were long blocks (1 acre) leading down to a stream.

[lachan]

Wonderfully written! Is the grey house on the photo the one you lived in?

[jacq22]

Yes, have another showing the front, but this was taken much later, the owners had already altered and built onto it.
I could find none of the house as Dad built it.
The side window opposite the gypsy waggon was my bedroom.

[den_lace]

I love how you made your childhood come to life, well done. I so enjoyed reading it and looking at the pics:)

[jacq22]

Thank you glad you enjoyed it.

[jacq22]

Just looked it up on Goggle and it is still so pretty... glad its not a block of flats, its still fields and hedges and cows... in Gloucestershire. Thanks for reading.