Two weeks ago we received a letter out of the blue from a lady who used to live in Pippin Cottage 40 years ago. She asked did we want some old papers that she had for the house and could we send her a photograph of it. Yesterday we collected her and brought her round for afternoon tea. She and her husband lived here for eight years and she could remember all the details of the old parts of the house, before it was extended. When they first came here (1969) one of the windows was still bricked up from the days when Window Tax was payable in England (1696 to 1851) and her husband opened it up again. They installed the first upstairs bathroom and built the first garage here. She was a nurse who later trained as a hypnotist and she treated her hypnotherapy patients in one of the rooms of the house. She told us lots of interesting stories and had us laughing all afternoon - we had a lovely day.
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