{"id":62254,"date":"2017-07-30T16:00:15","date_gmt":"2017-07-30T09:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/why-i-revisited-every-place-ive-ever-lived\/"},"modified":"2017-07-30T16:10:02","modified_gmt":"2017-07-30T09:10:02","slug":"why-i-revisited-every-place-ive-ever-lived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/why-i-revisited-every-place-ive-ever-lived\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I revisited every place I\u2019ve ever lived"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nFrom Swansea semi to London bedsit, Jude Rogers has called many places home. For a new radio series, she decided to \u2018time\u2011travel\u2019 through them all \u2013 a journey that stirred both memories and emotionsWhen I was 18, just before I left home, I used to repeat a peculiar, magical ritual. I\u2019d borrow my mum\u2019s car, set off from the house where we\u2019d lived since I was five and drive to another house two miles up the road. I\u2019d turn the corner into the cul-de-sac, see the pairs of similarly constructed, semi-detached houses, all pebbledash and beige bricks, and as I\u2019d get to the end, I\u2019d be holding my breath.There it was on the left: my childhood home. I\u2019d crawl in first gear, literally trying to slow down my past. I\u2019d try to peek past the curtains, imagining how another family could be within these walls, living different lives. It was an incredibly intense experience, like I was trying to summon up ghosts, catching myself as a baby in the window, a phantom toddling through the grass. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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