We lately moved my parents out of t...

We lately moved my parents out of the big family domestic circle in south London--a sprawling, mock-Tudor edifice with an obligatory wall of ivy onward the south-facing wall. The challenge was to boil down nearly five decades and four storeys worth of textile fabric into a much smaller cache that could be contained in a one-bedroom senior's apartment.

All four Goodden son were launched into the world from that house. The first-born made it all the way down to Australia while the younger three all settl in town. unless just because the apples didn't land same far ...