The "have a look at this!" thread II

Davesnave

Anyone else see a penguin doing the splits in Pic 15?

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-64697357.html

smallholdingsister

I wonder what you see when you look at ink blots?!

Are you selling up, Dave? I think your house might suit us.

Davesnave

smallholdingsister wrote: »

I wonder what you see when you look at ink blots?!

Are you selling up, Dave? I think your house might suit us.

Ah yes, the good old Rorschach Test. It was always naked women, I'm afraid. They let me out in the end, just for being consistent. :A

No, not selling-up. We haven't finished this one yet, and being a bungalow, it'll do me into my dotage.

Might sell the barn and some land one day. I'm fairly sure planning could be wangled.

Cakeguts

Davesnave wrote: »

Anyone else see a penguin doing the splits in Pic 15?

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-64697357.html

It is because it is constipated.

Davesnave

Cakeguts wrote: »

It is because it is constipated.

Quite possibly, or being electrocuted; those lights don't look like they'd be IP44 rated...

smallholdingsister

Davesnave wrote: »

Ah yes, the good old Rorschach Test. It was always naked women, I'm afraid. They let me out in the end, just for being consistent. :A

No, not selling-up. We haven't finished this one yet, and being a bungalow, it'll do me into my dotage.

Might sell the barn and some land one day. I'm fairly sure planning could be wangled.

Over 4 acres and I'm in. Though converting a barn isn't for the faint hearted!

Running_Horse

Room to swing a cat?

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-58037959.html

Bidding war starts at £600,000.

StumpyPumpy

EssexGirl wrote: »

I was searching for a house that I've seen frequently on tv. I found it, it's 4 Princelet Street if you're interested. Anyway I found this place. Almost untouched: http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-63523358.html

Fascinating story attached to that house:
http://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/11/06/joginder-singh-shoe-maker/

My dad came to this country in 1949 from Nangal Kalan Hashiarpur in the Punjab. He came to Princelet St in Spitalfields and we’ve lived there ever since. He couldn’t read or write. He was a shoe shine at Liverpool St Station for twenty-one years and then he became labourer until he dropped dead in 1986 at fifty-six.
...
My dad was not selfish, he was good to everybody. He brought lots of people over, nephews and cousins, and he’d pick people up in the street and bring them home. The Environment Health tried to close our house down because we had fifty people living in it. The Council said, ‘We’ll close this place, it’s full of bedbugs and fleas and you p*** in a bucket. How can you live like this? It’s a slum.’ I was born in Mile End Hospital and I had TB at the age of ten because of the number of people that lived in our house. It’s a four storey house and, eventually, he bought it for two grand and I still live there today.

SP

vansboy

Spot the dog....

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-64692770.html

VB

Lazarus_Blackstar

bouicca21 wrote: »

Sheila maid? Is that the thingummy that my mil called a maiden?

When I was a young nipper oop here in Yorkshire, my dear Granny used to have one, we called it a "creel". I can always remember her putting newspaper over the wooden latts then putting her damp washing on top. Made a rather loud squeaky noise when she pulled at the rope to move it back up the the ceiling! Lordy lord, I can still hear it ringing in my ears now!