Thursday 27 December 2018

Doppelganger No 3¾




A row of charming 'shipping container' holiday chalets in beautiful sunny Périgord, S W France. 

                               

A row of old garages back in England.


39 comments:

  1. How awful! Are they not even going to bury them?

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    1. They will have the tops covered with earth, but the delightful 'front doors' will remain as they are; although burying them too might be a better idea!

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  2. If you were homeless you would not ask that question.

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    1. I recently suggested that the homeless could be given the use of very cheap, kitted-out, and insulated, garden Summer houses.... I got nothing but criticism.

      What question were you referring to?

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    2. Ah! In fact when permission was given for these awful holiday homes, it was stated that they had to be 'semi-buried'. He has translated that as 'semi-covered'; not at all the same thing.

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  3. The picture captions are the wrong way round.

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    1. hahaha...the garages look marginally better I think... but only just!

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    2. Lady Magnon just said she'd rather live in the garages!

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  4. In reply to your answer to me Cro, yes. I don't understand.

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    1. You need to be a reader of Private Eye. Old style British humour; they always title their 'Dopplegangers' the wrong way round!

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    2. If they landscape with the heap of mould they will look alright. If you ever move back to the UK you have a lot to look forward to.

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    3. I have a travellers site less than 500 yards from my back yard with consists of caravans and dogs roaming and mud and rubbish and travellers who work at night. I live within 5 miles of numerous other travellers sites. They all look roughly the same. There is no landscaping. The EU directive to provide travellers sites was embraced 100% in the UK although not in other EU countries, France notably being one who have not embraced it.

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    4. I can't say I blame them. If they'd keep their sites rubbish free, and reasonably noise free, no-one would complain. I've seen some total horrors.

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    5. France have a policy of giving them free passage to England.

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    6. No, nobody would complain about the robberies.

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  5. Beach huts at Studland Bay sell for Hundreds of thousands - if they ever come up for sale - and you are not allowed to sleep in them.

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    1. We had one like that in Worthing; but I did sleep in it.

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    1. That's the comment I've been waiting for. Thank you J.

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  7. That's fairly awful, Cro. What the hell are those folks thinking?!

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    1. I imagine they're dreaming of €€€€€'s, but I think they're more likely to wake to a nightmare!

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  9. My dad kept his Morris Oxford in one. I had to help bleed the brakes. Not easy for boy to reach the brake pedal from the bench seat. I believe they still have some in India as taxis.

    Earthquake victims in Italy used to get a blue tent to live in. When they complained Silvio B told them to "Think of it as a camping holiday."

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    1. I think I'd prefer to spend a holiday in a blue tent, than one of these containers.

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  10. I think they are horrible. Who would visit France to stay in one of those? It is a shame that after so many years this is parked on your doorstep. I went to a friends house for lunch this week and what used to be fields is a housing development. You never know what will be built around you.

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    1. And this area is known for its beautiful 'Fairytale' stone-built, vernacular architecture. That's partly why people come here; as well as for our gastronomy.

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  11. On a purely practical level - where are the windows?

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    1. Erm.... not sure. They'll need floodlighting inside!

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    2. I was going to ask where are the windows ? If I visited your area I would want windows open to see your beautiful views not dark rusty metal !

      cheers, parsnip

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    3. The only view from the one's I illustrated, is a bank of earth covering the one's in front. Dreadful.

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  12. Shipping container homes can be quite nice. See, for example,
    https://www.honomobo.com/oooo/

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    1. I'm perfectly aware of such wonderful disguisements of old containers. I don't think one could confuse the two examples. But why would anyone want to build such a holiday village right in the middle of an ancient rural hamlet, when they could have chosen any number of alternatives?

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    2. Agreed there Cro..and so many beautiful buildings could be saved.but that wouldn't be a fast buck

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    3. But a better investment in the long term.

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  13. No light. No windows. Who would want to vacation in a coffin?

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    1. That's what we've been saying all along. Every alternative is so much better.

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