The Bluestocking - holding the line and losing the thread

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All women welcome, pull up a pygmy hog, the bargerbil will serve you a drink, the flying squirrels will bring you something to read and the goats will do...I'm not entirely sure.

There may be more than the usual amount of chaos as we transition to the new thread.

A magpie should have a ramshackle (but weatherproof) treehouse, I think. IRL I'm terrible with heights though, so maybe something firmly on the ground. Anyone remember the cruck-framed house from Grand Designs? I'll have something like that.

I think I'd like a small house, like one of those school buses that's been converted into a house but not a bus. Everything will have a place. Probably will have a stove for heating when it's cold but also underfloor heating for when I can't be arsed with the fire or I just need to take the chill off. Well planned so I've a proper bedroom, bathroom and stuff stored so i can get straight to it if i need it. Not storage behind other storage. Lots of house plants. A climbing, scented rose round the front door. Decent sized but not huge garden. A wee potting shed, with the woodpile leaning against it, and small greenhouse. Decent WiFi so I can order seeds to try to grow unusual plants that have caught my attention. Going to try tree tomatoes next year and have another go at luffas.

Cher
Ooh, or a small Victorian vicarage, only with double glazing and mod cons.
Did they ever come in 'Small'? All the ones I can think of are in size 'Massive' and no longer vicarages.

I'd like a house that is moderately cottagey, but with no head-clunking beams and lintels. Plenty of off-road parking for guests (and several spare bedrooms apart from my office), wood burners in at least 3 rooms, enough woodland to supply my own wood for said wood burners (continuing from the paddock, which continues from the garden), and a lovely big kitchen with lots of light. And a pantry. Also slightly tumbledown outbuildings, as they're always useful.

It would have nice big windows (discretely double-glazed) and about a foot of insulation in the loft. Lots of storage for craft supplies. And right on the outskirts of Badley Fukkit, as I can be quite antisocial - but with decent internet.

And Brains and Batshit would know to crap in one particular corner, not all over the bloody lawn.

Cher
Ooh, or a small Victorian vicarage, only with double glazing and mod cons.
Did they ever come in 'Small'? All the ones I can think of are in size 'Massive' and no longer vicarages.

This is Badley Fukkit. They come in any size you want. Rather like the drinks.

And perhaps I should have said "ex-vicarage". As I am not a vicar, nor likely to be.

Also there can be more than one, if any other current or future Stockinger shares my taste.

I really would quite like to live in Badley Fukkit.

@MarieDeGournay - Michael Flanders (of Flanders and Swann) did a version of that poem:

I must go down to the sea again,
To the lonely sea and sky.
I left my vest and trousers there
I wonder if they’re dry! 😂

I'd be in the castle on the hill. With a spiral staircase, a fireman's pole abd and a moat. For the Walrus, naturally.

You'd all be welcome though.

I’d like a large Art Deco bungalow (like an apartment but without other people), with lots of storage, a music room, a craft room, a utility room and a garden with lots of badgers living in it. And a kitchen that opens out onto the garden so that the badgers can come in to visit if they so wish.

Something cottagey would suit me fine. I'd want a room that I can use as a library, and maybe a bar to practice my mixology skills. And a wee garden with plenty of birds in it.

Do we think the gerbils are willing to help with the gardening?

Perhaps we could employ some moles to do the digging? Or rabbits, but with a strict ban on eating the flowers and vegetables.

I have since last night purchased an extra length of garden and had a fantastic swimming pond built complete with a deck island to lounge upon.

Of course you have to be careful what you plant in your garden

My garden would ideally be full of happy cats.

lol end of my garden are two new builds that i had to fight developer all the way over the boundary line, and attempting to kill my tree.

One of the houses was to be his new residence.

I know him from my local pub and told him over a pint that if he did not back off I would plant Russian vines on the boundary line, i said, “put that in your search engine and smoke it”

He backed off.

I've looked round, it's prefect.

Now if you could just do something about that row of strange women outside that would be great.

Blue dress for me please Boily

Yes. Yes. I know I'm a day behind!

Waves to the little people down below

Damn! Are we sharing this castle I'm living in? Thought the roaring was just the wind!

I hope Edith doesn't mind me keeping my woodpile stocked up with some of her fallen trees.

My place is handmade red bricks, stone sills and a slate roof. I think it was converted from a working building. You can see places in the brickwork where doors and windows (or perhaps an opening for a hatch) used to be. There's a driveway upto the front laid with cobbles. I think it might be older than the building. When the sun falls on it just right you can see the grooves left by decades of cart wheels.

A bit like this, Swash?

Will you marry Marie I’ve miniature things.

That's a very imposing residence you have there, Boily!

I mean i love

This is mine.

Oooh, I'm not particularly fussed about the house, actually the house I grew up in would do, especially if my mum were still around to make it lovely and cosy and have food and drink for anyone who wanders in at hand at all times, but I need a big garden and when I say big I mean huge. I need space for my veg beds, the orchard, the soft fruit area (with a cage), a meadow, a stream or a pond, space for chickens and maybe a few goats or sheep, some out buildings for a fermentarium, a mushroomery, a proper deep basement for storing stuff at low temperature (also for cider barrels) and dp would like a woodland.