Christmas 2020 thread

safrane

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Wanderer said:
I had a house in Scotland that was dead old, Grade B listed I think. Anyway we couldn't change the windows that wet not in best of condition, draughty, freeze in winter on the inside. Found a couple of old pic featuring my old Alfa 164 3 ltr. Lusso. These pics about 2003, car let me down on A75, then I've no memory, must have given it away. No tax since Dec. 2004. No idea who's the red hatch was.

The older part of the house (1837) was to the right extended with the black and white bit and then later with the far left gable. Kids wouldn't sleep down there and there was an eeriness to it looking down the corridor. Despite it's apparent huge size was only four bedrooms.

In the Scots nation al records I once found some pics of the inside (it was previous a sort of famous Victorian artists house) of Victorian kids sat on the window seat in what became my son's bedroom - hard to think those kids be dead now.
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Looks similar to Black Clauchrie House that featured on one of those country house rescues.
 
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Gazcw said:
Just an observation as you may not have noticed. I think you have been robbed and most of your furniture has gone!
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Ha ha... TV, Sofa, coffee tables etc behind the photographer... its a converted barn so the living room is "as big as a barn" and reminds me of living in our converted warehouse in Shad Thames many moons ago.
 
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Gazcw said:
Always take a picture. No idea why, but you always spot things staring you in the face!
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Sold that back in 2008 and sadly the new owner had to cope with the fact that some bellend in an Impreza crashed into it when it was parked and wrote it off. Scratch under headlight something of a minor issue.

ps that’s enough advice thanks Gaz!
 
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Hurricane52 said:
Apparently it’s now the law in Wales to have at least one sheep on your Christmas Tree.
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Had it not been for the shenanigans on a couple of threads recently, I would have been really tempted to reply with “are you sure you don’t you mean family tree”. But for fear of being called prejudiced or antagonistic towards any particular nationality, I won’t. Even though both myself and my wife are Welsh. Where has the sense of humour gone.
 
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Saigon said:
Had it not been for the shenanigans on a couple of threads recently, I would have been really tempted to reply with “are you sure you don’t you mean family tree”. But for fear of being called prejudiced or antagonistic towards any particular nationality, I won’t. Even though both myself and my wife are Welsh. Where has the sense of humour gone.
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It died along with people’s ability to disagree without insulting each other and to make a point once and then assume anyone interested had read it. For the record, I chuckled
 
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Zep said:
It died along with people’s ability to disagree without insulting each other and to make a point once and then assume anyone interested had read it. For the record, I chuckled
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Me too. Chip on both shoulders sadly missing here, along with hospitality.
 
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