Doors
Doors, gates: do they shut you out or invite you in? I can never see a beautiful door or gate without wanting to open it and find out what is on the other side but doors in themselves can be lovely things. I was so taken with some pictures of doors from Rachel at slow lane life that I wandered around looking again at our doors and I thought I would share them. Some are pretty ordinary; some much less so. Here is the front door. Like most farmhouse front doors it is never used. No one ever comes in through the front door but if you did and closed it behind you, you would find this. At the top is the latch, possibly made in the forge that used to belong to the farm and which is now part of the holiday cottage. Below that is the key, a good six inches long and nearly as big as my hand, and the lock into which it fits. They still work. Below them is a wooden bolt. There is another similar one upstairs and I th...