"I first saw the house on a sunny November day and I knew instantly that it was mine. There was no heating, no hot water, the whole place was drenched in damp and stank of incontinent sheep and I ...
The only inhabitant was a frail old man and he begged me to stay and help him. I jumped at the opportunity. I had to shack up in a leaking old caravan alongside the barn. The old man died within a ...