Stripping wallpaper is a boring job by anybody's measure, but over the last couple of weeks, I've uncovered some of the history of the house - old paper from an unspecified era, turquoise with little red flowers, carpenter's calculations, more woodworm holes, and today, my best find - a hidden doorway......! I always guessed there was one lurking in the alcove, so when the paper came off to show boards, I set to and ripped them down and found a big space where the door to the next house had been put in, in the days when my house was a café/bar, connected to the épicerie/hotel next door through that doorway.....don't know exactly when it was walled up again, but it's not getting boarded over again!
Deserved a long evening walk after all that! Heard and saw a woodpecker hunting for beetles and grubs - wonder if he'd like a job.....?
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