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« Reply #15 on: July 07, 2016, 09:17:39 »

I have to say, if there was a steady stream of people taking pictures outside/near my home I might be tempted to ask them why myself rather than waiting for the media to tell me.  But then I am a journalist by training....

I might also set up a ticket desk and offer light refreshment at an outrageous price. But then I was a Civil Servant by training.
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« Reply #16 on: July 07, 2016, 21:44:32 »

Well according to the report that was just on Sky News, one resident managed to ask one of the few English speaking tourists, and it was nothing more than them wanting to see a typical English village to see what types of houses etc we live in. They were quite fascinated with the wheelie bins too apparently  Grin
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« Reply #17 on: July 07, 2016, 21:47:54 »

The Times reports that one rezzie is knocking out cream teas at a pre-Brexit price of eight quid a pop. I live in a fairly typical house with a wheelie bin. Ni Hao, people! 你好
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« Reply #18 on: July 07, 2016, 21:50:25 »

I live in a two wheelie bin house....
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« Reply #19 on: July 07, 2016, 21:51:15 »

I live in a two wheelie bin house....

Somewhat bin laden, then...
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« Reply #20 on: July 07, 2016, 22:01:39 »

I live in a two wheelie bin house....

I've just realise I have 3. 1 for garden, and 1 for rubbish and 1 for recycling.
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« Reply #21 on: July 07, 2016, 22:32:45 »

3 here as well. For rubbish, recycling, and food waste. Many of my neighbours have a fourth for garden waste.
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« Reply #22 on: July 08, 2016, 05:16:57 »

I might also set up a ticket desk and offer light refreshment at an outrageous price. But then I was a Civil Servant by training.

Perhaps it's "Househenge" or some sort of 20th century mystery.  Things in geometric lines - the median point of this estate in Kidlington lines up with one of a similar age in Bath, and another in Exeter. And also with one in Sheffield and one in Leeds.   On Kid Ling Ton's birthday, if standing on the manhole in the middle of the road, the sun rises directly about the roof ridge line of no. 42, and late on 24th December 2006 Santa Claus was spotted walking up Benmead from the Black Horse with his arms full of presents and a worried look on his face.

The old Stonehenge did indeed boast a ticket office and light refreshments ... and somewhat limited other facilities!
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« Reply #23 on: July 08, 2016, 08:20:40 »

The origins may indeed be shrouded in mystery already - the origins of Stonehenge have only just been revealed, following the discovery of a pictographic record of a conversation between a chief delivery man and a clerk of works at the site of the construction of a prehistoric public convenience near Salisbury.

Delivery man: "Where do you want these stones?"
Clerk of Works: "Not again! We need pipes - we've got enough stones. What's wrong with our ordering office?"
DM (Dilton Marsh): "Well, we're not taking 'em back. We've carried them all the way from Wales, and they weigh a ton. Actually, several tons. They're paid for, so it's your problem, pal! Where do you want them?"
CoW: "OK, put them over there for now while I sort something out. Don't just dump them, though - make them look pretty."
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« Reply #24 on: July 08, 2016, 09:29:15 »

Or the Flanders and Swann account in Built Up Area:

"I don't know where you get that stone from anyway - that's not local stone; I can tell. You get it from where? The Preseli Mountains? In Wales? I know it's in Wales - I've been abroad. Why d'yer want to bring it all that way... You're bringing it the wrong way anyway: you want to bring it round the Chanctonbury Ring road, avoiding the earthworks at Avebury."
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« Reply #25 on: July 08, 2016, 18:03:37 »

This even got a brief feature on BBC» (British Broadcasting Corporation - home page) Breakfast this morning but no real reason given.
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