Its not home for me until it's uncluttered and in order. It's really important to me! I try to make Thursday evening my cleaning and tidying session, just so it's in order for the weekend. Can't relax if there are chores to do!
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Its not home for me until it's uncluttered and in order. It's really important to me! I try to make Thursday evening my cleaning and tidying session, just so it's in order for the weekend. Can't relax if there are chores to do!
Shambles
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I'm more or less precisely the opposite of that. I can't do chores if there's relaxing to do :D
mydrugbuddy
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Pics were taken after cleaning or dusting etc. My gaff isnt usually as neat and clean looking as that, though i have a new hoover now so that i can keep it a bit better maintained cleanliness wise. It even makes the air in the rooms feel better, being a 'next generation' hoover nd all its meant to clean the air as well as the carpets. 
I liked the Jack Dee auto biog, especially the tale of how he almost accidentally came up with his onstage persona, as he has dumbstuck with stage fright iirc, and everyone thought itr was a hilarious part of the act. I dont think im remembering it quite right, but it was something along those lines. Autobiographies are my main reading interest atm really. Like yourself i feel a bit self comscious reading anything too pretentious looking in public, like Jean Paul Satre's Existential Crisis or something. Not that its a bad book, ive never read it to know one way or the other, but im sure you get my gist.
I liked the Jack Dee auto biog, especially the tale of how he almost accidentally came up with his onstage persona, as he has dumbstuck with stage fright iirc, and everyone thought itr was a hilarious part of the act. I dont think im remembering it quite right, but it was something along those lines. Autobiographies are my main reading interest atm really. Like yourself i feel a bit self comscious reading anything too pretentious looking in public, like Jean Paul Satre's Existential Crisis or something. Not that its a bad book, ive never read it to know one way or the other, but im sure you get my gist.
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Shambles
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I think you misread my post, MDB. I was saying I feel a bit self-conscious not reading pretentious books in public. Although I wouldn't call them pretentious as I read such things out of genuine interest and preference for something a bit more cerebral than sleb autobiographies. He did write it himself though which is not exactly a given when it comes to "auto"biographies these days. I wonder if Trading Standards would uphold a complaint against about half the average celebrity autobiography section in most bookshops?
It's funny you should mention Sartre as an example of pretentious reading cos I do recall going out of my way to let people know I was reading Nausea many years ago. I think I've grown out of most of the associated behaviours but there's still a certain level of embarrassment being caught reading trash so definitely still a strong whiff of pretension about me even if I do read such books out of genuine desire to read them rather than genuine desire to be seen reading them these days.
It's funny you should mention Sartre as an example of pretentious reading cos I do recall going out of my way to let people know I was reading Nausea many years ago. I think I've grown out of most of the associated behaviours but there's still a certain level of embarrassment being caught reading trash so definitely still a strong whiff of pretension about me even if I do read such books out of genuine desire to read them rather than genuine desire to be seen reading them these days.
mydrugbuddy
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Yeah not really with it today, but i cant see Wayne Rooney or Jordan having written their own auto biographies. Ghost writers must make quite a good living out of this type of work. I suscpect that most of them are done by Ghost Writrers, with the probable notable exception of Stephen Fry, who im sure didnt need a ghost writer.
mydrugbuddy
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This is more typical of how my kitchen used to look before the piles of washing up increased by about 5 times. The room is now much more under control since i cleaned and put way a lot of uneccasry surplus stuff into storage, it prevents future huge build ups, limiting to just a a couple of plates and bowls etc. It can all be done in about 15 minutes now even if evrything needs washing. One rare pragmatic and practical idea that did go according to plan.
Shambles
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I've only read the first of Stephen Fry's autobiographies (as well as a few of his novels) and is definitely not ghosted. It's also one of the few sleb autobios I have no embarrassment reading publicly. He is as good a writer as you'd expect and manges to make a fine reading experience from the first 18 years of his life alone. He doesn't even do anything especially unusual or exciting but still only squeezes in the first 18y of life into his first autobio. Would like to read the others sometime but it appears whoever the local Stephen Fry fan was moved away or stopped giving books to the charity shop so will have to cast my net further.
parttime crackhead
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Cleaned and tidied the house this morning so here's some photos of the rest of it now it's not mocket.
Living room:
My room:
Kitchen:
Bog:
Close-up of the bookcase, not quite as high brow as some in this thread
There you go, clean pad. Getting scooped the night though so it'll probably be a riot by Monday.
Living room:
My room:
Kitchen:
Bog:
Close-up of the bookcase, not quite as high brow as some in this thread
There you go, clean pad. Getting scooped the night though so it'll probably be a riot by Monday.
^ lovely lounge PTCH, awesome stone. Book collection isn't so great. "porno/how to DJ/gangster squad/Pele"8(
ha. My bookshelf actually is filled with quite complex theological/psychological books. Problem is I never get round to reading them. I end up spending considerable time on the same page then giving up.
Still, guests don't know that. Makes me look more educated than I am.
MyDrugBuddy said:
ha. My bookshelf actually is filled with quite complex theological/psychological books. Problem is I never get round to reading them. I end up spending considerable time on the same page then giving up.
Still, guests don't know that. Makes me look more educated than I am.
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mydrugbuddy
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Yeah i did notice that your stacks of several Sartre and Martin Amis books looked brand new, and didnt have the look of being read at all. 
Ive kind of learnt my limits, though there's nothing wrong with attempting ambitious books.
Some very attractive woman from the council came round to assess my house for various environmental insulation grants and stuff, she took a very long time standing by my bed, looking at and 'assessing' the book shelf next to it, i dont know what that had to do with insulation. :D I think it might have impressed her though i dont buy books in order to impress people, i buy them thinking theres at least some chance i will be interested enough in them to read them. Some women seem to like men that read books. I wish Id have known what was going through her head, glad i wasnt on mephedrone or something or i might have jumped on her lol.
Ive kind of learnt my limits, though there's nothing wrong with attempting ambitious books. Some very attractive woman from the council came round to assess my house for various environmental insulation grants and stuff, she took a very long time standing by my bed, looking at and 'assessing' the book shelf next to it, i dont know what that had to do with insulation. :D I think it might have impressed her though i dont buy books in order to impress people, i buy them thinking theres at least some chance i will be interested enough in them to read them. Some women seem to like men that read books. I wish Id have known what was going through her head, glad i wasnt on mephedrone or something or i might have jumped on her lol.
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mydrugbuddy
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Thats a very tidy looking gaff PTCH, and is what i would call an honest bookshelf. I could fill my shelves with Shakespeare and stuff like that, but i know id never read it and it would more likely put anyone off, if i was 'out to impress' those people that judge people by their book collections.
Chatative
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^ Very nice PTCH.
I'd like to get my place tidied up & looking sharp like yours. I've already got a nice painting I wrangled my Mum into giving me but it's yet to go up in place of that poorly positioned crap one ... also meaning to get some greenery on top of the bookcase either side of the lantern you can see & some nice matching cushions for sofa... just anything I can do without spending too much money.
Perhaps I could move my books into my bookcase above the Hi-Fi... I used to have them there a long time ago. I could be a real tosser & put all my Law Textbooks from Uni there just to look good. Or, equally I could put my Harry Potter books there.
I seem to be caring less & less about my anonymity these days. So, here is the view from my sofa - my 'set up'.
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I'd like to get my place tidied up & looking sharp like yours. I've already got a nice painting I wrangled my Mum into giving me but it's yet to go up in place of that poorly positioned crap one ... also meaning to get some greenery on top of the bookcase either side of the lantern you can see & some nice matching cushions for sofa... just anything I can do without spending too much money.
Perhaps I could move my books into my bookcase above the Hi-Fi... I used to have them there a long time ago. I could be a real tosser & put all my Law Textbooks from Uni there just to look good. Or, equally I could put my Harry Potter books there.
I seem to be caring less & less about my anonymity these days. So, here is the view from my sofa - my 'set up'.
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One Thousand Words
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I love the large brick fireplace ptch. Oh the filthy things I could do in front of that.
Two of my favourite things in my apartment, limited edition Gorillaz print and ducted air conditioning.
Two of my favourite things in my apartment, limited edition Gorillaz print and ducted air conditioning.
Uncle Robert
Bluelighter
Is the red border part of the print or the framework?
parttime crackhead
Bluelighter
I know what you mean. I shat in front of it a few hours ago. Filthy.
One Thousand Words
Bluelighter
I just leave a pile of used tissues and I'm too lazy to toss them in the fire