In article , Kay Easton
writes

No,no,no! Never 'small'! The phrase is 'easily maintained', or, if no
more than a border in a small yard 'cottage garden style'.
Slightly less small is 'deceptively spacious'.


What I hate is terminology such as
'Views of paddocks' as if looking at someone else's land makes up for
the 80 foot you are reduced to in yours!

There may well be gardeners who are happy to have a small to medium
garden but I always look at the fact that you can change a house or
extend it but you can't do the same with a garden.

I often wonder how hills are measured, I mean id the base is say half an
acre do they measure that or count up to the top and down the other
side?

Why aren't there specialist estate agents for such things as land or
gardens, the nearest we came to was equine agents, reckoning I suppose
that if you are interested in horses you necessarily need the acreage.

Rural scene is a good web site for out of the way houses, however Tom
baulked at the one I found which had ten acres and was a snip with a 20
foot kitchen and a twenty foot bedroom and a twenty foot
lounge............ well okay, it was a one roomed undeveloped sort of
shack but it COULD have been nice if he'd had the imagination
.............. AND it was cheap

janet


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Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk