My house isn't like that, it was built in 1960 on the lines of traditional Suffolk cottages that were meant to have flat rooves, but it is in a beautiful village full of flint cottages and thatched cottages. So it is a white cottage built in the same shape as the older ones, with the same steeply pitched roof, only we newer ones dotted all over the village all have the wavy roof tiles that are everywhere in this area, as they used to be in Roman times. I suppose we all look like Suffolk cottages that have had their thatch removed. However the little flinty market town is only four miles away, and I do look out on to a beautiful old cottage over the road. We had to buy this one as DBH is a teacher and we had to buy in a hurry, at the time it was the only one with a big garden left on the books in the area. We certainly did look at plenty of older ones, but even though we originally wanted an older one, I was beginning to realise eight years ago that as chief painter and decorator, wooden window frames were going to be hard to maintain and most of this village is heavily conserved. Even down to people who build extensions having to put fake chimney pots on their roof.