It has been a strange few days in this part of North Yorkshire. Winter arrived, long neglected fires were lit and my phone started to ring. I can't prove cause and effect, but my brushes have certainly been in great demand as the soot truck and I slipped and slid around North Yorkshire's mostly ungritted roads (After a near miss at Egton I got winter tyres fitted mid-week). Quite a few of my customers this week have been tenants and I was very surprised both by how many of