Avid readers will remember vividly my groundbreaking article featuring Eeyore's House List....... 788-the-house-at-pooh-corner.html And after a barrage of requests for more of "that sort of thing" I have prepared a few more ... starting, of course, with Piglet's friend WOL. Here's Wol's tree-house ... note the unusual bell-pull .... more on that later .. As far as house-listing goes, so far so good. Generally speaking, being high up should boost your list... but not too high of course. So he's probably OK with that. But ...being in a wood, which looks likely in Wol's case, can be a bit restricting. You haven't got your broad vistas, your views of high-overhead scarce migrants and the like. But, as it happens, owls have very acute hearing and would be able to pick them up on call. But .. what about windows ... where's those vital window-based look-out points? Aha ! There they are ... a bit on the small side, but then , so is Wol. Are there any round the back? There's no mention of any. So ...what about the interior ... that might give us a clue ... Good signs would be big picture windows, well-organised shelves of the best bird books available, maybe a scope set up by the best viewpoint , no visitors to distract from the main task of house-listing .... Hmmm... it all looks a bit pokey to me .... and no sign of organisation/bird books/ telescopes, binoculars, framed photographs of Bill Oddie ..to be honest, it looks more like a tip full of layabouts. But ... on the plus side, he does appear to have a barometer. .... Oh dear ! O Weh O Weh ! What has given rise to this shambolic scene? But we must try to be positive ... it's quite possible that they've just been celebrating getting Hoopoe on Wol's house list ..which brings him up to 47. Our only hope is, he might eventually find a Mrs Wol, who will get that shameful shambles shipshape shortly. So he's messed things up a bit.... don't we all, but with my advice maybe he can stop making the same mistakes .. ..and now, here's some earlier " Celebrity House Lists" ...
778-whats-their-house-list-no-1.html 780-whats-their-house-list-2.html and, for those with lapses of memory ... 788-the-house-at-pooh-corner.html 908-celebrity-house-lists-wol.html I've just thought ... there's an obvious question I haven't asked .. or answered. Here it is ... can he count himself on his house list ? And here's another thing ... my House Mammal List is incredibly small... .... can I tick myself ? ... and if you haven't read that book, even in German like wot I 'ave, here's a spoiler alert .. S P O I L E R ..... that Bell-Pull is Eeyore's tail ! ..... but that's another story. and my German blog should be find-able at ... https://therockyroadtogerman.weebly.com/
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