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This is the 2,390th post offered in the tenure of the Wakefield Doctrine since being asked to be a co-host. (Who said that? Excellent idea. We shall post, as Grat Number 5 the first Doctrine TToT post.)
Shall we proceed?
1) Phyllis
2) Una
3) the Wakefield Doctrine
4) technology cum work-required photation: the Grat about this photo of an attic in one of my properties? Glad you asked! We did a ‘scary’ Six this week, hoping to produce the appropriate emotional response, i.e. scary house. It was actually a number of years ago, when I a had a number of old, vacant houses to inspect every week, that the concept of scary old house came up. We are brought up as children to have a respect, if not fear haunted houses. Mostly because, in theory, they might be home to ghosts and/or other inimical beings. So I would have fun (on these inspections with a ‘What if there’s a spirit or monster in this property?’ Alas, the innocence of childhood. The true horror to be encountered in a putative haunted house, for an adult (and, we include ourselfs, for the purpose of the narrative) is far worse than banshees and werewolves, it is so mundane. Approaching the stairs in the photo, hearing a sound and catching our toe on the insulation (white stuff)… that is the scary thing. To lie paralyzed at the bottom of the stairs in a vacant house, real horror.
This is a Grat on this week’s list because: a) we enjoyed writing about childhood and 2) We didn’t trip on the insulation
5) putative first post by the Doctrine to this here bloghop here. June 7 1913
6) Return of a wandering hostinae, Readers surely took note of Kristi’s return at the beginning of the week this week. Welcome Back. (New Readers: she is one of the original Hostinae chosen by Hallowed-be-The-Founderina’s-Name…) back in, the records are… imprecise, lets call it 1967 just to err on the side of caution.
7) the Six Sentence Story blohop.
8) the Unicorn Challenge Picked’ ‘corn of the week:
9) something, something
10) Secret Rule 1.3
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I’m also very thankful you didn’t end up at the bottom of those stairs, and thankful I have not so ended up at Ms. GA’s house. Mr. BA built a staircase which is more like a ladder…
yeah… and it’s not that I’m gonna stay home, but staying aware how I probably should crank up the pay-attention to what I do is not unreasonable… and it totally helps to have others identify with the similar situation
I am thankful that my house has more insulation in the loft than that haunted house of yours, not to mention the dry rot in the floorboards.
yeah… not so old (by local standards) only like 1920(ish) but having a walk-up attic was not uncommon for the time.. the cool feature that doesn’t show is the second, ‘back staircase’ (for the help, don’cha know)
Now that is cool; it adds to the history of the house.
tru dat
Glad you didn’t trip! Thanks for the shout out. It’s good to be back!
you gots to have mad photos… very cool on choices of visitationing
Thank you for you… and Bob!
yw
2,390. And it feels like yesterday. And not.
#4 funny how “what if” begins to sidle into our thoughts in choice situations.
Such a pleasant surprise to “see” Kristi. It’s been a long time!
yeah, like 16 years or so