Anyone got £400k to spare?

[rai]

And what I meant to say in reply was "and playing with the dollhouse". ;D

[ruthy]

Anyone notice the dolls' house appears to be a replica of the building? How lovely is that? Also, the airer in front of the range really made me ....look closely

[rugirl]

What a lovely house, my son would absolutely love running through it...as I'm sure Caspar and Ru did in their day. What a shame to be selling the house.

C'mon ladies, can't we have a bake sale or something and buy this lovely house to turn into a Ruf museum??

[ruthy]

I think Rufus grew up in Twickenham, from what I gather his mother bought this later on.

[catdishy]

What an idyllic place to spend some time. I think the piece above indicated his Mum bought it in 1980 after his father had died.

[ruthy]

Yes, I thought that was odd considering Rufus attended Orleans Park Secondary in Twickenham, then West Thames College in Hounslow and then worked for Hounslow Council. It probably started life as a holiday home.

[catdishy]

Ruthy, I've looked at the kitchen, the range, not sure what the airer is. Is that lingerie drying above the cooker(love that expression).

[ruthy]

Yep, looks to me like an item of ladies' underpinnings hoisted up there to dry I bet Rufe's Mum's a real free spirit, scatty but loveable. Wonder if Rufus dries his smalls in the kitchen?

[rai]

I found this bit from a 2000 interview with a Welsh newspaper when Rufus was doing Ali Baba:

Actor Rufus Sewell’s new role in the BBC’s new version of Arabian Nights brought back childhood memories of reading by firelight in his family’s Welsh cottage.

Sewell, 33, who was brought up in Twickenham but spent much of his childhood in Wales, stars alongside Alan Bates, Jane Lapotaire, Vanessa Mae, Dougray Scott and Alexei Sayle in the BBC’s May Bank Holiday mini-series.

He still has strong links with Wales, as his mother Jo moved to Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, 17 years ago when she married lorry driver Peter Davies, and now lives opposite Brown’s Hotel, the pub made famous by Dylan and Caitlin Thomas.

And he has revealed that when he landed the part of Ali Baba in the BBC mini-series he was reminded of the time he used to spend as a child in Wales.

“We used to spend about half our time in this cottage,” he said. “There was no electricity, the toilet was at the end of the garden and we had no running water.

“I remember that, by firelight, every night, we’d read and it was stories like One Thousand And One Nights and works by Edgar Allan Poe and H G Wells.”

[ruthy]

Sounds a bit like the "one artichoke between six of us" fable, the dreadful old ham.

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ruthy said:

Sounds a bit like the "one artichoke between six of us" fable, the dreadful old ham.

I was thinking more of the walking 5 miles uphill in a blizzard, hauling my baby brother in a backpack to get to school yarn.

[ruthy]

He's probably saving that little nugget for his Oscar acceptance speech. That and the one about living in a hole in the road and having one pair of shoes, which he had to share with his mother and his brother.

[GreenEyesToo]

Awwww...don't be so mean to the poor lad. Mind you, when he starts talking about having to bathe in a puddle, I'll give him the Inaugural Finney Prize for Hamminess.

[ruthy]

Bless his heart. That's why we love him.

[lassie]

If roof's mum is downsizing, I wonder if she will have a garage/yard/pavement sale?

I am sure she would have lots of obsessed Roofarians trying to get their hands on something Rufus has touched, drank out of, looked at even!! I will be camping out waiting for the sale to begin, or on second thoughts perhaps I'll be in the local B & B - it can be cold and wet in Wales!!