Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

Pyxis

And it's got cubby-holes! :T :T

Pobby

Hi everyone again. Hope you are all well. Houses, and original features. Before the internet took off we had a cottage on West Looe Hill, West Looe. Pretty basic when we boughtit but little by little we did it up. First surprise. There was bed room carpet on the kitchen floor. When we removed it , the floor was made of Delabole slate. Bit of cleaning up and it was lovely. There was a fire place hidden in the kitchen. Ripped out the rather unpleasant one in the living room and fitted that but more to the point the old living room fireplace covered up some rather nice Victorian tiles. It gets better. Pine effect wall paper in the kitchen. Yes it was covering real pine.

The down side was when we sold it after a struggle in about 1999. Not eneb allowing for the whole lot of work we had put into it, we sold for 2 thousand less what we paid for it. Ha ha.

Doozergirl

Hello Pobby :wave:

One of the dogs just ate my favourite leather sandals. Or one of them.

zagubov

Pyxis wrote: »

I love cubby holes in unexpected places!

So often these are ripped out when a place is modernised!

Does your enormous garden have a vegetable patch?
My current house only has a small garden, so I've only been able to grow veg in pots or in small amounts. My previous house had a ready made veg plot, not overly large, but enough for me to cut my gardening teeth on!

Talking of post-war prefabs, though, they have an incredible place in history. I'm glad some have been listed.
As a child, I lived on the outskirts of London, and I can remember nearby estates of prefabs. When I went back years later, they had all been replaced by brick council houses, and I did feel a bit of a pang.
The documentary I mentioned before interviewed a long-standing occupier of a prefab. She said that they had previously lived cheek by jowl in a couple of rooms with a shared loo, no bathroom and a tap on the landing. When she saw the prefab she had been allocated, she felt she had gone to heaven! Her own bathroom, with a geyser for hot water over the bath and her own kitchen! And a garden! And her own front door.

Some of the older council houses are wonderful, too! My first job was with the government, and involved property, and I was involved in the first right-to-buy schemes. Some of the older council houses had incredible features, and would have been a gold mine for an astute council tenant!
The best ones I saw were in a very desirable part of London, overlooking a leafy part of the Thames! Can you believe it? Nothing between these semidetached council houses and the river except grass verges! Plus they had large front gardens and even larger back gardens. I remember thinking that the tenants that bought these houses, and at a discount, were incredibly fortunate!

talking of pre-war prefabs, my mum's cousin lived in one and we discussed a while back how good they were.


Still people's expectations rise all the time. When people moved out of city slums into high-rises the rewards were central heating and internal toilets.

vivatifosi

Greetings Pobby! Good to see you. Hope all is going well in your world.

chris_m

zagubov wrote: »

Still people's expectations rise all the time. When people moved out of city slums into high-rises the rewards were central heating and internal toilets.

Well, thinking about it, a loo at the end of the yard would be very inconvenient if one was put on the 35th floor, especially when the lifts broke down

ivyleaf

Just thinking it will seem quite odd not to have any Olympics on TV tonight!

michaels

ivyleaf wrote: »

Just thinking it will seem quite odd not to have any Olympics on TV tonight!

There is always catchup for all the events you missed the first time around.....

ivyleaf

michaels wrote: »

There is always catchup for all the events you missed the first time around.....

Nah, I think I'll pass Just seems slightly strange to be going back to "ordinary" programming!

ukmaggie45

I'm really glad it's all over. I hate all sport, and the way it just always takes priority over other programs on TV. Good riddance I say!