How We Live

Pondering the otherness of Aussie homes

Not actually a typical Aussie house | photo courtesy of the author

Rain patters and clatters in the metal gutter outside my study window.

There’s heavy rain forecast for the next 24 hours: 25–40 mm. It’s not beyond the realms of possibility that the roof will leak — again.

Our house in Oxford, a typical English terraced house of the 1980s, was small and sturdy. Weathertight against the worst…