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January is finally gone and always seems to arrive with instructions. Strip things back. Turn off the lights. Get on with it. But historically, winter was never something to simply endure. It was long, dark and uncertain. Warmth mattered. Ritual mattered. Beauty mattered. They were not indulgences. They were survival. So no, our Christmas lights were not still glowing into the early part of February because we were slow to take them down. They stayed because we loved the sof

The tile pattern of black, white and one olive green tile and the burgundy red surface is very typical of late Victorian and early Edwardian encaustic and geometric tiled floors, most commonly dating from the 1880s to the early 1900s. This tile pattern is inset into pigmented cement or concrete flooring, often referred to historically as granolithic or cementitious floor with oxide pigment. This deep red colour was extremely popular in hotels, shops, institutions and grand ho