During the recent property slowdown, many Britons with small children will have identified with the plotline of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s children’s storybook A Squash and a Squeeze, in which a little old lady complains that her house is unbearably small. As your family gets bigger, but you can’t afford to upsize, you may be tripping over one another in your postage-stamp kitchen — your baby throwing omelette on the floor, your five-year-old running in and tripping over it, and you banishing everyone from the room in a screaming fury. Unlike the old lady in the book, you aren’t able to appeal to a wise old man for guidance. You can, however, exploit options that were unavailable to her — namely, tearing down the Victorian…

Source: The Times March 08, 2019 00:02 UTC