Home and Garden Chatter

Most expensive plot of land in the world!!

Last year Forbes in US created a list of the most expensive properties in the world. One can only dream of living in a house like one of these. Brand new homes can be so expensive where ever you go these days but these houses are really in a class of their own. A new home like this would cost more money than many people would see throughout their entire life! Only the richest of the rich have the priveledge of living in one of these new amazing looking houses!

Check this first one out…

This house lies in the upmarket area of beverly hills, US. The house is worth in excess of $106M.

This next one is a castle in Broslav, Romania. It lies on 20 acres of land and was once inhabited by the infamous Vlad the Impaler!

Updown Court, Windlesham Surrey, UK. This extravagant home is larger than the famous Buckingham Palace and is worth a grand total of £138M.

Check Those Fuses

I love my home and garden a lot, more than most in fact, as it has taken me a long time to get settled in a home and garden that I’m happy with. One thing that I didn’t take into consideration when moving into my home though, was the state of the fuse box.

I moved in to my new house, and everything was great - home, nice garden, nice garage, and the dog seemed happy with his surroundings - so it was an all round success.

Then about a week after I moved in, the problems with the lights started. Every couple of days I would switch on the living room lights (which are spotlight bulbs along one of those bendy tubes), and a bulb would blow, along with the rest of the lights in the house. The one bulb blowing out tripped the fuse box every time.

The fuse box is in the garage, and the garage can only be accessed from outside, which makes it even more tricky when I’m upstairs with the lights off and I need to find my way downstairs, out the door, find the key, unlock the garage, get into the garage, find the fusebox, and fix the fuse, in the pitch dark!

Anyway, after this happening 6 times, I got pretty sick of it, so I had an electrician come round to take a look at my dodgy lighting that was causing all these problems. He took one look at the lighting strip and told me that there was nothing wrong with it, which surprised me a good deal. He then took one look at my fuses and told me that was where my problem lay.

Turns out my fuses were old, and dodgy as a hooker with one leg.

The one thing I didnt take into consideration of course was what turned out the be the problem, the fuses were old and decrepid, which was causing my bulbs to blow when turning on and off the electricity to them!

Moral of the story?

Check those fuses!

Careful in The Garden

Recently a poor 48yr old woman in Torquey was pegging some washing on the line in her garden, only to become impaled upon a 15cm rusty nail.

Nice.

X-rays revealed that the nail had actually penetrated the woman’s foot by 7.5cm, and then bent once inside making it even more difficult for the doctors to remove it without performing minor surgery.

The woman was naturally rather shocked by the large object protruding fromjust below her big toe, but resisted the urge to pull it out thankfully as this would certainly have done more harm than good.

Torquay isn’t usually such a dangerous place, indeed it actually boasts a wealth of gorgeous Torquay hotels, but on this occasion the person in question was rather unfortunate to experience the rusty end of the nail.