I haven't posted much about my new village, the sweet little hamlet of Woods Hole. I was traveling a lot in the fall and with the shorter days the town seemed to go into a winter hibernation mode. A summer tourist draw, each restaurant in town gradually shut-down between October and January and now only the Capt. Kidd is still open. The still beating heart of the village is Pie In the Sky bakery where I get my coffee every morning. Today I was chatting with owner Eric about the pros and cons of Aga stoves, a connoisseur's ultimate "comfort stove", and remembered my pics from a showroom I stumbled across in London a while ago.
Behold the beauteous AGA!
Okay, the polka-dots are bit much but how about that mint one!?! And a truly fascinating short history of the AGA, including the story behind its invention by a Nobel Prize winner, can be found here on wikipedia.
I also popped into Smallbone nearby, purveyors of bespoke kitchens that have inspired past renovations of my own. Here is a detail of a beautiful wood countertop. For a lot less money you can call up your favorite carpenter and go to Lumber Liquidators--the unfinished cherry butcher block countertops are waiting for you to arrive. Here's a link to another post about my home-made wooden countertops.
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