World cup!
Well it starts today… I think! And I know that Engerland’s first game is tomorrow. I expect I’ll try and watch a bit of it, but I’m not really a football fan. No doubt if we win a few games and move through a few stages, then my enthusiasm may increase.
Over the years we’ve sold a few stone fireplaces to well know footballers, though perhaps that’s not a great advert! In fact the two that spring to mind were very unlike the stereotype footballer. They both had lovely families, and both lived in old houses that they were restoring very sympathetically. None of the stuff like you see in that Hello mag.
Mind you it’s a few years ago now, and neither player are in the current England team.
We’re just working on another rustic style stone fireplace to be fitted in a new-build oak framed house. The house is being built in green oak, and is too a very traditional and very beautiful design. It is on a lovely plot near Melton Mowbray, and the site used to have a similar dwelling on it, but it was demolished in the ’50s. The owners have fought very hard for years to get planning permission to build the new replacement house.