The Friday Five on a Sunday

[nanila]

1. What is the oldest object in the room with you?
Probably the walls. This is an 18th century house.

2. What is the newest?
A book I was recently gifted.

3. What is your favorite object in the room with you?
At the moment, the Christmas tree.

4. What is the most valuable object?
Humuhumu's electric guitar would be up there. The television probably was when we bought it, but it's a few years old now.

5. What is the ugliest object?
Me, I've got a cold and am all drippy. Bleh.

Comments

[cmcmck]

In our lobby there are some heart urchin fossils (shepherds' crowns) that I found on the downs as a kid and they're 40 million years old!

[nanila]

Ooh, exciting! All the fossils in our house are in the kids' rooms.

[maellenkleth]

Our small collection of fossils lives on the kitchen windowsill:

Metasequoia wood (late Cretaceous, probably early Campanian), from a colliery heap; and

Buchia crassicolis shell-fossil (Triassic?) from the northern shore of Holberg Inlet.

[coffeetime]

Like any American living in a typical American home (my condo was built in 2001), the idea of an 18th century building is just bananas to me. In a good way, I mean. There are a few homes older than 100 years in my local area but...nothing I could afford to retrofit. Though I had romantically considered the idea of buying an older home here, the reality is foundation cracks/problems/leaks, inadequate windows and insulation, bats/mice/termites/carpenter ants, dangerous wiring and so on. Nearly nothing here was built to continue usefulness into future centuries.

You have been unlucky with upper respiratory ick this year, hope next year treats you better.

[nanila]

Yep, the American attitude towards housing is very different. This isn't a particularly old house in this area, either. It's not a listed building.

I was better this year than last year in Semester 1, but the year as a whole has had far too many lurgies in it. Thanks for the good wishes!

[shirebound]

This is an 18th century house.

I didn't know that!

I have a cold too. Bleh.

[nanila]

Yep, the original farm labourers' cottage was just two rooms, one of which I was in when I answered this questionnaire.

Sympathies on the lurgy! 🤧