Mike Parker’s home is more akin to a scene from a period drama. Floor-to-ceiling bookshelves, a separate sitting room to the lounge and an unruly yet characterful kitchen and dining area, it’s a delightful hodgepodge of eccentricity and wouldn’t be out of place in a museum. “It’s funny you should say that, because the comedian Tudur Owen came and said it was like something from St Fagans,” Mike laughs proudly, while boiling water for tea on the stove in the cosy retreat in the countryside enough miles north of Machynlleth to render my mobile phone futile, reports WalesOnline.
“It needed lots of work when we took it on in terms of clearing a lot of stuff, but we deliberately haven’t really renovated it at all. Reg and George could have been considered hoarders I suppose. As you can see, we do have similar tendencies.
” Read more: Read more: The house - called Rhiw Goch, or Red Hill - was left to Mike and his partner Peredur (Preds) Tomos by friends Reg Mickisch and George Walton. With no close relatives, Reg and George left the four-bedroom old bed and breakfast and all its contents to Mike and Preds when they died weeks apart in 2011. Reg and George had met in 1949 in a London nightclub, got together in 1952 and were the first gay couple to receive a civil partnership in Powys in 2006, two months after such things became possible for gay people.
They’d moved to the area from Bournemouth in the early 70s having then lived most of their lives together somewha.
