This YouTube series about an old British house is the one thing keeping me going.

Online Duncombe Dreams An old British house brings me comfort like no other in these terrible times. Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Getty Images Plus.  Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Like a lot of people these days, I open my eyes each morning to a quandary: check my notifications and be drenched in a deluge of bad news about the crumbling state of the American experiment, or make my coffee wondering what new constitutional crisis awaits. Either way, though, I’ve finally found the place where I can soothe my impotent distress after I learn of the latest wanton havoc: a former Victorian estate manager’s house in the Staffordshire countryside. In the words of owner Jack—who with his partner, Jazzy, is faithfully restoring this Neo-Georgian-style four-bedroom known as Duncombe House—the place is “a captivating little money pit.” It is also a complete and utter slice of heaven. Every month, Jack posts a new video to the YouTube channel Duncombe House Diaries, in which, to a soundtrack that recalls Jane Austen movie adaptations, he chronicles the pair’s latest efforts to make that 200-year-old money pit habitable. When they bought
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