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Beth
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Books, brutalism and (gluten free) biscuits
📍 Nottingham
If you haven't seen it, the follow up documentary about Delia Balmer is well worth watching - she's an amazing woman
January 4, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Interesting. I'd say this has been brewing for a very long time.
January 2, 2025 at 4:04 PM
This has 'Netflix documentary' written all over it...
September 11, 2024 at 7:34 AM
* former housing manager in recovery here. I could go on. And on. And on ......
September 5, 2024 at 11:55 PM
See also lockable medicine cabinets in bathrooms but no mirror, towel rail or hook for your dressing gown behind the door. And paving slab path across lawn to rotary drier space (but no rotary drier provided)* 🤦🏻‍♀️
September 5, 2024 at 11:54 PM
It might be on Channel 4 on demand? Well worth catching up if you can track it down!
August 29, 2024 at 3:15 PM
Thanks - that's my listening in the office tomorrow sorted!

Here's one I can't get enough of right now 👑
youtu.be/c80mYF6dR7s?...
Prince - Take Me With U (Live 1985) [Official Video]
YouTube video by Prince
youtu.be
August 28, 2024 at 11:18 PM
8.
However, when a nun who HAD A DREAM gives you a charm you cannot EVER throw it away because it's is absolutely definitely 100% cursed or blessed or something.

And so it is still in my jewellery box, still looking absolutely brand new and untarnished almost 30 years later...... 🩶😳
August 12, 2024 at 8:12 PM
7.
And then that's it. Long story short, she doesn't get the house.

I think they let a business use it for some years, and now apparently it's being done up to be used as a holiday let.
August 12, 2024 at 8:09 PM
6.
The nun goes in every room of the house and prays. She leaves a small silver charm in each room to leave her mark so that she might return. Some are under wooden panels, down the side of window frames or inside fireplaces.
She gives me a charm too, in hope I will help her get the house.
August 12, 2024 at 8:08 PM
5.
And so I, the trainee, am sent to meet a nun WHO HAD A DREAM and show that nun around the most sinister house imaginable. No power, musty, cold and very, very dark. Every floorboard and door creaks like a horror movie cliche.

The nun loves the house. IT IS JUST LIKE IT WAS IN HER DREAM.... 💀
August 12, 2024 at 8:06 PM
4.
Then out of the blue, a nun contacts the council.

She says she experienced a dream in which she lived in this house.

A NUN HAD A DREAM 😳
August 12, 2024 at 8:05 PM
3.
There are loads of people waiting for houses, but this one - no functioning kitchen, bare wooden floors, original 16th century winding stairs, no ceiling lights or heating - is unlikely to be what they need. The council must think carefully about who could take care of a unique place like this.
August 12, 2024 at 8:04 PM
2.
It's been occupied for years by someone who has taken the role of guardian, keeping safe a building of national historic significance. However the house becomes empty.

No-one is sure what to do with a house like this.
August 12, 2024 at 8:03 PM
And no obvious advertising in the stadium at all!

Although I was there this week and Coca Cola have a stranglehold on all refreshments, and Visa have an exclusive deal as the only payment method in any venue🤷‍♀️
August 10, 2024 at 6:40 PM