Notes from the Underground with David Aaronovitch

Notes from the Underground with David Aaronovitch

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Our house was a very, very fine house

Our house was a very, very fine house

The five phases of home

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Detail from The Little Street by Johannes Vermeer, 1656. Rijksmuseum

For many of us – maybe not everybody - there will be five phases of home: the origin, the nomadic, the ladder, the settled and the whatever comes next. I’m in phase four. I’m not looking forward to phase five.  

The origin phase is where we were children and – for better or worse - conc…

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