Their postie (an Elvis fan) tried to engage her in conversation about the king of rock and roll. Until she pointed out that their surname is Grace and played dumb about knowing that there was another house in Tennessee with the same name.
There are two identical bungalows next to each other up the road from us – one is called “Simla” and the other “Nexdor”
As a Yorkshireman might say “There’s nowt as queer as folk”.
My in-laws had a neighbour who named his house ‘Llamedos’. It was a not very subtle dig at the locals who all objected to his planning application for a spanish style villa in the Kent greenbelt.
My surname is Andrews, my house is called St Andrews House. Fairly annoying. Mind you my childhood address was: Emerald Hollow, Badgers lane, Nr Paradise…!
Theres a few too many ‘Shepards Croft’ or Orchard Mews’ type new places round here for my liking.
Same as the girl at work who left a note on some guideance documents which said, in block capitals, “THOUGH YOU MIGHT LIKE A QUICK FLICK BEFORE WE GO OUT”.
After moving up to Keswick in September and seeing as every other house is called How(e) Cottage/Crag/View, I was very tempted, as a Yorkshireman and fan of a certain 80’s hardcore band, to call ours How(e) Dü…..
IGMC.
A quiet colleague of mine, not given to frivolity, has a house called “Nine Trees”. I asked if it has nine trees; “No, it’s number 27”.
He inherited it, apparently.
I work on a business park. It’s called Buckingway Business Park. The locals have been busy recently with tape to change Buckingway into something else.
With me being a big fan of the late 80s / early 90s rave scene, I’ve been trying to convince my wife that we should call our home ‘Acid House’.
Anything has got to be better than the terminally dull ‘Greystones’ that we inherited, surely?
I might just get a piece of slate engraved with a made-up rude word, swap the sign and see how long it takes her to realise. ‘Bifkin’ or ‘Jizzbolt’ might do.