Andrea, I love looking at your possible houses! The second one is really lovely- sure, the fireplace in the bathroom is great, but do you get to keep the coat of armour???
Is the garden in the second one a bit smaller than the first? And sadly, yes, I would not only wonder about traffic vis a vis the chippie, but the smell...


SRS, I red the link you sent re milk in tea, and I'm putting my hands over my eyes and pretending I never saw it! I get such satisfaction and relaxation and pure pleasure with my 2-3 cups/day of strong black tea with milk and a spot of sugar- without milk, something in the tea goes straight to work on my stomach lining and it hurts!
So all this means is in addition to my daily fix of black tea and milk, I will continue to sip some good Chinese oolong with no milk or sugar, and get the benefits thereof!

Kat, sometime I will have to go back and study how you are handling all the books- it's about time we dealt with our overflow! And keep up the qi gong, as I get back into yoga via yoga dance- I'm loving it!

WYS- I'll be interested to hear more about that list-serve- sounds very fruitful (like your breakfast!).