Has anyone else seen this one?

[Moo]

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/876223...co-home-in-just-four-months-using-basic-tools

and here's another:

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/a...ts-30ft-wide-quarters-mile-long--340-000.html

 

[Feltwell]

I'm sure I heard somewhere that British Rail (as was) were the second largest landowner in the UK (the Crown being the largest) but that a sizeable chunk of their land was almost worthless, being in long thin strips.

 

[Zebra]

I love the hobbit house. First thing I thought though, is I wonder what sort of damp proof course they've got.

 

[Lime]

I like the long garden.
I'd have miniature train running the length of it.
something like this:

 

[Flyfisher]

The hobbit house is interesting; I would have liked to read about how they handled any planning issues but then I noticed the link on the same page to the story about a "Russian woman keeps 'alien corpse' chilling in fridge for two years" and realised that expecting in-depth reporting was probably a little optimistic for that particular publication.

 

[JohnB]

The hobbit house is interesting; I would have liked to read about how they handled any planning issues

I don't think they did! They now live in a low-impact house with planning permission at Lammas. The One Planet Development part of TAN6 allows low-impact development in Wales. The details are still being worked on, and a lot of people are serious about making it happen. I helped form one of the groups who are working on it, but I'm not part of it.

 

[Gareth Hughes]

I'm afraid I do despair of anyone (well, the average Daily Mail reader) taking ecologically-friendly homes - as we need to - seriously as long as they always seem to look like that. They really don't need to - why is that aesthetic so popular among Dark Greens?

 

[MdB]

I'd have miniature train running the length of it.

You should have bought our neighbours house. Their neighbours are the local miniature railway club!
Every other Sunday or so, we can hear them tearing around the track at high speed with the odd toot.

 

[JohnB]

I'm afraid I do despair of anyone (well, the average Daily Mail reader) taking ecologically-friendly homes - as we need to - seriously as long as they always seem to look like that. They really don't need to - why is that aesthetic so popular among Dark Greens?

They don't always look like that, but the media seem to pick up on the ones that do look like that!

 

[Lime]

I'm afraid I do despair of anyone (well, the average Daily Mail reader) taking ecologically-friendly homes - as we need to - seriously as long as they always seem to look like that. They really don't need to - why is that aesthetic so popular among Dark Greens?

Well, yeah man! 8)
My experience of being Secretary to the local Green Party in the 1980s tells me that most Dark Greens liked to sit in the dirt and play their bongos (hyperthetically speaking), smoke, talk about war / CND and usually wore an ensemble of dusty brown and almost mandatory head or neck scarf plus small child.
Either that or green wellies and Barber.
I've still got my Barber, I'm told that they are valuable now as collectors items.

 

[Penners]

I've still got my Barber

Me too, although he doesn't have much to do, nowadays.

But my Barbour is as busy as ever, in the winter!

:wink:

 

[Lime]

I've still got my Barber

Me too, although he doesn't have much to do, nowadays.

But my Barbour is as busy as ever, in the winter!

:wink:

I think that demonstrates how long ago I last wore it.

But, thinking about it, the last time i visited a hairdressers was in 1968!