I sold it.

Eighteen months in, for reasons that were half practical and half not, and we live now in a smaller place on the other side of town with a worse garden and a better kitchen, and it was the right decision and Nell chose her own room and painted one wall a color I would not have approved if I had been asked properly.

And the last item, which is the one I did not see coming and which I will put down here as plainly as I can.

I do not travel.