ragdall
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Dec 16, 2018 12:28:40 GMT
Post by ragdall on Dec 16, 2018 12:28:40 GMT
Lovely that the elderly plant keeps blooming indoors for you, Sandra. Shame about your friend's side garden. Can it be rehabilitated?
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Dec 17, 2018 0:58:35 GMT
Post by sandrainsydney on Dec 17, 2018 0:58:35 GMT
it was replaced, after the building work was done & now looks perfect with hanging plants along the fence & the new wall & tubs on the ground. They spent $400 on new planter tubs as everything had been covered in cement & brick dust. The new owner had offered to pay for everything, but seems to have back peddled.
They live in a two storey inner city terrace & are joined to the 2 adjoining houses which was built in the 1890s by a rich father for his 3 daughters. She has a beautiful cottage garden in the front yard & more gardens in the back yard, including veggies & her tomatoes are delicious.
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ragdall
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Dec 23, 2018 0:37:35 GMT
Post by ragdall on Dec 23, 2018 0:37:35 GMT
Her gardens sound lovely, Sandra. It will be a shame if the neighbours who caused her loss don't pay for the damage they caused.
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Dec 23, 2018 23:09:23 GMT
Post by sandrainsydney on Dec 23, 2018 23:09:23 GMT
They had months of noise as the builders removed the whole house, apart from the facade, stairs & part of the front room & rebuilt everything in the same style (no modern rubbish behind a historical front as is often done) using bricks & old fashioned methods, & extended further into the yard.
The house was a perfect house, cost a fortune then was demolished!
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ragdall
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Dec 27, 2018 5:49:41 GMT
Post by ragdall on Dec 27, 2018 5:49:41 GMT
It doesn't make sense, does it?
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Dec 27, 2018 9:06:13 GMT
Post by sandrainsydney on Dec 27, 2018 9:06:13 GMT
some people have more money than sense. A few years back someone bought a lovely little double fronted cottage (mid to later 19th century) that had been renovated a few years before & removed everything except the facade. The house was a simpler version of this one & now it has a bit of a McMansion poking up above the lovely facade & covering most of the land. why didn't they buy a house in suburbia if they wanted something big, bulky & angular? sandra
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ragdall
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Jan 4, 2019 7:44:22 GMT
Post by ragdall on Jan 4, 2019 7:44:22 GMT
As you said, "some people have more money than sense." Cities are changing. In my town, small old houses are being replaced with big ones like that too.
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Jan 5, 2019 0:23:48 GMT
Post by sandrainsydney on Jan 5, 2019 0:23:48 GMT
and when they don't replace it they build up & create some interesting sights (as in beautiful but also "may you live in interesting times") Every week I go past an inter-war brick cottage with a huge wooden square built into the back of the roof & wonder why they did it in an area full of early to mid 20th century houses. ans. because they could! Attachments:
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Jan 6, 2019 10:31:23 GMT
Post by ragdall on Jan 6, 2019 10:31:23 GMT
More and more strange?
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Jan 6, 2019 22:57:22 GMT
Post by sandrainsydney on Jan 6, 2019 22:57:22 GMT
further proof that money & good taste are not natural companions
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