{"id":339,"date":"2003-04-04T20:35:00","date_gmt":"2003-04-04T20:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/?p=339"},"modified":"2003-04-04T20:35:00","modified_gmt":"2003-04-04T20:35:00","slug":"what-a-lovely-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2003-04\/339-what-a-lovely-house","title":{"rendered":"What a lovely house"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s Friday Five<\/i>, picked up from pinque<\/a> (and elexa<\/a>)…<\/p>\n

1. How many houses\/apartments have you lived in throughout your life?<\/b>
\nFour: Fyve Oakes<\/i>, into which I was born; Mrs. McTammany’s Home for Wayward Girls<\/i>, the “bachelor pad” I shared with my older brother; Chateau Peunrit<\/i>, where I moved when my brother got married; and Xoozland<\/i> where I am now. Yes, ALL<\/b> of the places I’ve lived have been given names.
\n[Five, if you count McLaughlin College when I lived on campus during university.]<\/p>\n

2. Which was your favorite and why?<\/b>
\nEither Fyve Oakes<\/i>, because of all the childhood memories, or Xoozland<\/i> because I’m doing so much work on it myself.<\/p>\n

3. Do you find moving house more exciting or stressful? Why?<\/b>
\nVery Stressful, because I have so much, ah-hem **stuff**<\/b>… collections and shit. I can’t seem to part with much of it, though I have<\/b> been learning to get rid of some of it!!<\/p>\n

4. What’s more important, location or price?<\/b>
\nLocation, location, location. As my best friend said at the time I bought Xoozland<\/i>, “you can change the house, but you can’t change the location!”<\/p>\n

5. What features does your dream house have (pool, spa bath, big yard, etc.)?<\/b>
\nIt’s a country house, probably an old Century Farm. It has lots<\/b> of land, lots of trees, lots of wildlife, away from neighbours and traffic and all the hustle and bustle of the city. And down the hill is a Big Pond with a little dock, where I can take Tippe<\/i> out for a paddle, or just sit there with a fishin’ pole, letting the world go by. As for the house, it’s a big sucker with lots of rooms, a big kitchen great for parties, and a huge wrap-around porch with a lovely porch swing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s Friday Five, picked up from pinque (and elexa)… 1. How many houses\/apartments have you lived in throughout your life? Four: Fyve Oakes, into which I was born; Mrs. McTammany’s Home for Wayward Girls, the “bachelor pad” I shared with … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}