{"id":29682,"date":"2025-01-04T09:45:46","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T09:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/04\/losing-my-haunted-mouldy-flat-was-awful-i-swore-id-get-it-back-and-i-did-claire-jackson\/"},"modified":"2025-01-04T09:45:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T09:45:46","slug":"losing-my-haunted-mouldy-flat-was-awful-i-swore-id-get-it-back-and-i-did-claire-jackson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/04\/losing-my-haunted-mouldy-flat-was-awful-i-swore-id-get-it-back-and-i-did-claire-jackson\/","title":{"rendered":"Losing my \u2018haunted\u2019, mouldy flat was awful. I swore I\u2019d get it back \u2013\u00a0and I did | Claire Jackson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some people long for a storybook house, but I found sanctuary in a home in the woods, where saucepans were said to move by themselves<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/viewer.gutools.co.uk\/commentisfree\/series\/what-home-means-to-me\">In our end of year series, writers and public figures remember the place or time when they felt most at home<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We\u2019re playing with a Playmobil house. Well, my friend\u2019s son is playing with it. I\u2019m moving my plastic familiar unsurely around what is, proportionately speaking, a cavernous room, awaiting his next instruction. The child scoops up a selection of miniature white goods. \u201cThis is an incredibly unrealistic portrayal of the type of house most people live in,\u201d I tell him. He jabbers happily, picking up a tiny kitchen utensil.<\/p>\n<p>Toy houses \u2013 with their big square facades, nice big front doors, smoking chimneys, lots of windows, grass on either side \u2013 bear little resemblance to most living arrangements. We\u2019ve got (slightly) better at acknowledging the mother doesn\u2019t need to go in the kitchen while the father is out (with the boat?), but these products still hook us into the capitalist, home-owning dream. Among myriad accessories, Playmobil offers a Victorian Dollhouse Fence Extension, a claw-foot bathtub and garden terrace furniture.<\/p>\n<p>Claire Jackson is a journalist who writes about classical music, art and animals<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/jan\/04\/haunted-flat-storybook-house-sanctuary\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people long for a storybook house, but I found sanctuary in a home in the woods, where saucepans were said to move by themselves In our end of year series, writers and public figures remember the place or time when they felt most at home We\u2019re playing with a Playmobil house. Well, my friend\u2019s &#8230; <a title=\"Losing my \u2018haunted\u2019, mouldy flat was awful. I swore I\u2019d get it back \u2013\u00a0and I did | Claire Jackson\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/04\/losing-my-haunted-mouldy-flat-was-awful-i-swore-id-get-it-back-and-i-did-claire-jackson\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Losing my \u2018haunted\u2019, mouldy flat was awful. I swore I\u2019d get it back \u2013\u00a0and I did | Claire Jackson\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}