I never really understood why anyone would call their house “Dunroamin” but as the years roll by and my age starts to creep up on me, I kinda get it now.
I’ll choose something even more Nautical for my next place as I foresee me moving down the beach closer to my sailing club in a couple of years..
My dad’s bought a house that’s a big for just him, but it does a good job of looking smaller.
He toyed with the idea of calling it Monster Cottage, but settled for Park View It over looks a park – boring, but you can’t argue with it. I prefer Monster Cottage, though.
When the postie’s used to his name, I might start writing to him at Monster Cottage.
When I was a paperboy I used to deliver to a really modern house with different ‘pods’ connected via glass corridors secretly hidden away behind trees called ‘Moonraker’. You could easily imagine Hugo Drax hiding away there. As a 14 yr old it was the coolest house ever!
I also know someone who called his marital home ‘Tranquility Base’ (he was a huge fan of the American space programme). Sadly it wasn’t an appropriate name
We viewed a house called ‘The Quiet Woman’ recently.
How strange,was just about to give that as an example before I read through. We pass one regularly in these parts, and have only seen that one. My wife and I joke that it’s so named because the houseowner’s once very vocal wife is buried somewhere in the garden 😯
I used to work with a chap with the surname ‘Crook’ his house is called ‘Crooklands’ – we works in finance, so….
Years ago I worked in a Call Centre, I had a call from a young couple who insisted we changed their address on file from 11 Acacia Avenue (or something like that) to Mos Eisley.
The water company seem convinced that my house is called ‘High Ash’, never seen any other reference to this. Nice enough to use if I knew why it’s called that.
The water company seem convinced that my house is called ‘High Ash’, never seen any other reference to this. Nice enough to use if I knew why it’s called that.
My parents built their house on a spare plot of land on behind a police station. 90% of the other houses on the road were local authority owned and were lived in by the police officers. As they didn’t want to be house 5a they decided to name it ‘The Coppers’.
Not the best name I know, but one day the local paper had an even slower news day a decided to do a feature on the why the house was call ‘The Coppers’, and they also took a photograph of him next to the house sign. Much to my mum’s horror and my brother’s and my amusement he didn’t realise his flies were open when they took the photo.