For my delectation

I move a little closer

By the glass door

Every day I walk down the hill and pass this wall.
I'd nod in passing to the elderly gentleman who would spend hours tending his landscaped garden and the rose beds at the front.

Then one day, about six years ago he informed us that he had sold up and was moving to retire in Cornwall.
We heard that property developers had bought the property at substantial cost and right enough, in time, an application to develop the site and knock the bungalow down in order to build seven luxury homes was submitted...and rejected.
It was rented out for about a year but since then it has been uninhabited.
I took a walk down the drive the other day in order to take photos for the dereliction challenge, not really knowing what was up there as you can only see the roof-top from the road.

The gardens have been left to to seed, that much I did know!

..and I could see that the roof has had some of its tiles removed

I walked around the back and it confirmed my suspicion that it had not been visited in a long while. The tiles on the roof have been missing for the best part of a year but there they were stacked in the back garden!

The garden furniture has not been used last summer that much one can see.