19 a Charles Dickens novel when we first arrived. We’d only ever lived in a townhouse, and this house was three times its size. It was huge! When I walked through the front door the first time, I had the fright of my life. I stepped into a great big hallway with doors leading off to a living room and a dining room, and a kitchen at the back. Right there in the hall was a massive suit of armour leering at us with a big axe, guarding the stairs. Dad sold it online right away. I’ve already told you about the downstairs. The upstairs is also amazing. The big wide staircase at the side of the hall takes you up to the next floor. It’s got a big wooden banister we still like to slide down when we are in a hurry. At the top of the stairs, there is a landing, and if you go to the left, you reach the twins’ bedroom, the boys’ room, and the old library, where mum keeps all her books and we watch TV and do our homework and such. To the right of the landing, there are two more bedrooms and a bathroom, then more stairs to another floor that must have been added quite a long time after the house was built, because it looks as though someone bought a perfectly nice house and decided to superglue a tower on top. That’s where you’ll find our room and Mum and Dad’s room. When we first arrived, there was a massive cupboard between the two rooms, but Mum insisted on clearing it out and plonking a bathroom there, because she couldn’t bear the idea of living in a house with just one upstairs bathroom between all of us. There is one more door on the tower floor, and it leads out onto a little roof garden with walls around it like battlements and enough potted plants to rival Kew Gardens.
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