Comments on: The downside of old English cottages https://englandspuzzle.com/the-downside-of-old-english-cottages/ Sat, 31 May 2025 14:04:12 +0000 hourly 1 By: Gizella https://englandspuzzle.com/the-downside-of-old-english-cottages/#comment-57 Tue, 03 Nov 2020 22:22:23 +0000 https://englandspuzzle.com/?p=6227#comment-57 In reply to Flo.

Dear Flo,

thank you for your lovely feedback and I am glad you enjoyed reading my blog. Please do not get me wrong: I absolutely love old cottages and I prefer staying at a typical cottage whilst on holiday. I am just not sure I could live in one for a long time. But maybe I could! I definitely would love to live in a preiod property, but perhaps in an Edwardian or Georgian house. I suppose it is down to personal taste.

As for social media, I think I just simply have to learn how it works. Because I am not ‘playing the game’, meaning I do not do follow-to-follow and I am not able to flatter influencers by constantly commenting on their posts, I have a huge disadvantage. 🙂 But that’s me, my values and moral – I just simply cannot play these games… Spending less time on social media definitely helps.

Best wishes,
Gizella

]]> By: Flo https://englandspuzzle.com/the-downside-of-old-english-cottages/#comment-55 Sun, 01 Nov 2020 18:06:09 +0000 https://englandspuzzle.com/?p=6227#comment-55 Aww. I’m commenting because I’ve recently returned from a stay in an old quarrymans’ cottage in Wales (pre-lockdown); and also lived in a Suffolk fishermans’ cottage.
I found both charming, and the impracticalities around space you mentioned part of the charm. Succumbing my 21st century self to their quirks was a kind of release. Perhaps I’m odd in that I find solace in the simplicity and ‘just enough-ness’ of the past and am often bewildered by the commotion and excess of today. Despite being built centuries ago, and for shorter and more hardy folk (and their animals probably) both cottages were comfortable (heating-wise) and sufficient. I agree on the problem of an upstairs loo – but it’s doable to put one in in one of the upstairs rooms. Having said, I do of course respect your opinion on them.
I also read your post on frustrations of social media. Upkeeping these accounts just hoover up time and energy. So how bloody annoying when someone less authentic but with XX,XXX followers finds it ok to rip off your original material. That plus the vagaries of algorhythms mean their post gets seen and yours doesn’t even if you have done all the work. Like you, I hope that approaching things authentically and being consistent (while somehow fitting in ‘real life’) will bring eventual reward. I’ve enjoyed reading your blog. All the best.

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