The "have a look at this!" thread II

lincroft1710

Misslayed wrote: »

https://www.onthemarket.com/details/5575704/

This comes with a title M'lud.

One of the bedrooms is bigger than my house!

PS spot the Tasmanian devil.

Insufficient car parking and garaging!

Dandie89

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b09vfy0z/escape-to-the-country-series-18-37-jurassic-coast
OK it's not the usual kind of post but it is property and you guys do seem to enjoy playing spot the cat so scoot along to 25:00 and enjoy

robatwork

Davesnave wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avX5VlU7MXM&list=RDavX5VlU7MXM&start_radio=1&t=129

Proper Richard Thompson FC?

Davesnave

robatwork wrote: »

Proper Richard Thompson FC?

Yes. I used to have .....err communally share....the album, back in the day when all property was theft.

Ocelot

For me proper FC was when Sandy Denny was there.

robatwork

We've gone a bit OT here - next up Ocelot tells us when he bought his first house (commune?) in Richmond for £700

Davesnave

Ocelot wrote: »

For me proper FC was when Sandy Denny was there.

The note below the graphic says "with Sandy Denny."

As for a Richmond commune.....nah. Ours was in Hampstead; actually West Hampstead, or if one were to be pedantically accurate, Kilburn.

robatwork

Davesnave wrote: »

The note below the graphic says "with Sandy Denny."

As for a Richmond commune.....nah. Ours was in Hampstead; actually West Hampstead, or if one were to be pedantically accurate, Kilburn.

I knew someone who bought a flat in W Hampstead years ago. The other side of the road counted as Kilburn. It made something like 50% difference in prices. London...

Possibly some of those walls were unhalfbricked.

Davesnave

robatwork wrote: »

I knew someone who bought a flat in W Hampstead years ago. The other side of the road counted as Kilburn. It made something like 50% difference in prices. London...

Possibly some of those walls were unhalfbricked.

Kilburn was very Irish then. Out of the 13 pubs then on or close to the High Road, only one was safe to enter wearing a kaftan.

We had Irish neighbours on both sides, but they were fine. On the subject of bricking, the ones on the right were building an extension, but we noticed they were laying the bricks in a unique manner and not staggering them. I remember discussing whether we should say something about the dangers of doing that, but my pals thought it would be very unwise.

Before they completed the structure, I moved to a new commune called 'university' and the humiliation of living in digs with an elderly couple, not unlike those on the cover of that album. They did indeed live in a half-bricked, inter-war, semi-dee and followed a strict weekly regime which never varied, so I always knew what was for dinner. After 9 months it began to grate when the conversation became totally predictable too. For example, on Wednesday evening Mr G would come in and declare, "Well, that's hump day over!"

It was only in the last few weeks of my time there that Mr & Mrs G revealed that a previous lodger that "gone beserk." Apparently, he'd run outside in the night, pulled-up all the cabbages and then, "went off and killed himself."

For those who haven't a clue what I'm talking about here is the album cover:



I took 'Unhalfbricking' to mean escape from dreary middle class life at home, which we fortunate, grammar-school educated children, did relatively easily in those days.

Dandie89

CarrieVS wrote: »

Actually, a cleaner in any size house would make me feel so awkward,

I don't see why it's a job which people either want or need.