Wow, that there internet is strange.

[flick]

I've just, through random clicking, discovered an entire strata (stratum, I suspect, but it sounds wrong) of blogs by British yummy-mummy-foodies-with-summer-houses-in-France. It's fascinating. ("I found these darling patterned hot chocolate bowls in the local supermarket here in Breton, only one Euro each! They're five pounds in Joseph Conran! Does anyone want me to bring some back to Richmond for them?")

Unrelatedly, I've been rightmove-hopping and found a lovely house that puzzles me: it's recently refurbished, and has two close-by, fully kitted out kitchens. It's not been reconverted from two properties. I'm vaguely assuming observant-Jewish, but if so then I'm puzzled by the lack of obvious space for two washing machines, and (possibly wrongly) by the spa-pool-and-sauna combo that leads straight off the house and into the garage, which would seem fraught with potential risks.

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[damerell]

Two washing machines? There's a piece of doctrine here I don't know, isn't there?

[flick]

My memory is hazy, but I think it's an extension of the no-contact-when-menstruating rule: one for the men of the house and one for the women.

[thalinoviel.livejournal.com]

Don't need 2 washing machines, unless you mean dishwashers?

[flickgc.livejournal.com]

I thought two washing machines (male and female) was a thing as well? This is, however, based on vague memories from things school friends said.

[ang-grrr.livejournal.com]

Kitchen for the nanny?

Edit to add: have you the link for the house-nosey?

[flickgc.livejournal.com]

No sign of a nanny annex. My first thought was that it was an annex, which is a big no for us (granny flat risk!), but not that I could see.

Link: Um. Didn't save it, sorry. It was somewhere near King's Lynn, iirc....

[grytpype-thynne.livejournal.com]

I have visions of whoever buys it driving home one night in a filthy temper, going into the garage too fast and then having to make an insurance claim for a collision with a jacuzzi. No, actually I was visualizing people in the jacuzzi when it happened.

[flickgc.livejournal.com]

[laughs]

It would be a little awkward, wouldn't it? Or, indeed, the carrying-bags-of-shopping-into-the-house-and-slipping-on-the-wet-floor problem!

[discodoris.livejournal.com]

There's a vague possibility of strict vegetarian and omnivore cohabiting wanting separate kitchen facilities. I know I've been to some parties where there have been separate rooms for buffet and some stress put on preparation done in completely meat free environs...

[flickgc.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's a possibility.... Or maybe someone with a gluten problem?