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July 28, 2005
Arthur Conan Doyle and property development (but not at the same time)
Did anyone see The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle on BBC2 last night? Absolutely brilliant, don’t want to go on about it too much in case anyone hasn’t seen it yet for whatever reason. If you ever get it in the US it’s well worth a watch.
Right now I’m trying to analyse quite why Homes Under the Hammer (Weekdays BBC1 10am) appeals to me so much. I think maybe it’s because I seem to have a surprising flair for armchair property development. I seem to be able to predict which houses are going to do well and if you get it right there is a hell of a lot of money in it. Only problem is you need the funds to buy the property in the first place, money breeds money it seems.
DIY quite appeals to me, I think possibly because it satisfies the creative and the practical sides of my soul. I can’t help feeling that it must be really rewarding to buy an empty shell of a house and leave your own mark on it AND have somewhere nice to live at the end of it.
Sadly I’ve not really had a chance to get stuck into many home improvements. This place doesn’t really feel permanent enough for us to spend too much money on anything that is going to get left behind when we move, so the best we have done here is a lick of paint and a couple of shelves here and there. I do rest assured that although I will possibly be a bit dangerous with a drill, a saw or a hammer (stand back everyone) but I couldn’t possibly be as bad at DIY as the people who lived here before us. We have wonky curtain rails and shelves (spirit level anyone?) an inch gap in the MIDDLE of the bathroom floor (surely everyone knows you start laying flooring from the middle, and besides the gap shouldn’t be that big, not if you use a measuring implement) and their piece de la resistance, a bathroom lock that they attempted to screw in OVER the door handle.
I think possibly all that I’ve written above is complete rubbish and the REAL reason I can’t stop watching Homes Under the Hammer is because I’m secretly rather impressed with the word play in the title. All houses in the programme are sold at auction, under the hammer, but also they need a lot of work presumably a lot of hammering GEDDIT?! *Groan* I hope to God they paid someone at the Beeb a hell of a lot of money for coming up with that one, I really do.
Can you tell my brain is in summer holiday mode? A couple of sentences about Sherlock Holmes and three paragraphs about daytime TV.
Back to my viewing.
Hmmm nice seventies avocado bathroom suite.
Posted by purple elephant at July 28, 2005 10:31 AM