Oh dear - nothing like temptation.

[Bayliss]

Ah, that's very useful, thanks for that. Picture 3 is just the kind of thing I am going to try to achieve with mine - are those pamments? If so, that's very useful to see how that looks - pamments, huge brick inglenook, exposed beams, limewashed walls.

The flooring in the kitchen / dining area looks like modern floor tiles, if I purchased this place that would be the first thing to be ripped out and replaced with a floor of pamments. Also the kitchen units are hideous and would have to go in favour of free standing old furniture.

No no. I meant in the living room. I agree the kitchen/dining room floor is modern tiles and not nice. I meant picture 3, the one with the big inglenook and the sofa. Do you think those are pamments?

(I also agree that I don't like the black beams, and mine will be staying their natural colour!)

It looks like the flooring in the living room are modern flooring bricks, whatever not particularly nice. So thats both ground floors to be sorted :roll:

 

[d49xc]

Last October, during an idyllic ten days in San Francisco (sigh.....) we went to a jazz concert in Oaklands.
After the concert we were standing outside on the pavement when the most enormous freight train trundled past us, slowly and majestically, down the middle of the street.
A regular occurrence, apparently.

Very common out there
lots on Youtube,this is just one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Eghk7W0sq0

This is a bit better - the telephone lens does make the distances between the train and the cars appear smaller than it really is!
(wait for 2:24 in the video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=gn47JnrS2QQ

 

[Moo]

Oh, thank you so much for those links - especially the first one; it really captures the majesty and interminable length of those trains.

 

[Penners]

the telephone lens

That sounds like a handy multi-functional device. I must get one for my camera/dishwasher.