At lost confirmation of what French people hide in their houses and gardens http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-28737021 Have you found anything that wasn't yours in your house or garden?
Only thing I found was a pair of shoes which the previous owner's daughter was very pleased to get back. We also found a surprising number of champagne bottles, empty of course, buried in the garden along with a folding chair in perfect condition (just a bit dirty!). Oh, and yes, there is one shoe sticking out from between two very large rocks in the garden. Who knows what's attached to that. And no way I'm going to look!
The son who lived here in the 60s left his signature carved in the stone window sill. He is now in his mid 50s and was surprised when I showed it to him as he'd forgotten about it.
The goat, being a Scot I tried but sadly... ;-)
We have plenty of floor to strip when we do the attic, one wonders?
Funnily enough a local French guy here said he found some English semi porno hidden in his house and said would I like them. I sold them within half a day on Anglo Info! In the UK I found an enormous trunk full of stuff which the previous owner when contacted said he knew nothing about. So we trousered that lot! The house had been in bedsits and we found some very unpleasant things indeed under floorboards in one room. These were disposed of but we were contacted by an English tabloid investigating the previous tenant who apparently had Jimmy Savile type form. I did liberate a rather nice oil painting from a skip once and my wine racks were all sourced at Wandsworth municipal dump.
how much did you get for the goat Brian? Sadly or possibly fortunately we didn't find anything of interest in our void spare room when we took out the cuve...just a load of old cobwebs. I wonder if we'll find anything when we demolish the upstairs?
I've said it before but here goes again. When we broke down the wall in a blocked bit of our cellar there was a mummified goat carcass hanging from a beam and in the ground we found a metal box with several 19th century porno books (bloomers mainly but bare arms a lot and some boobs - shock horror!) which an antiquarian book seller took off us immediately for a good price. At least, a good price for people who found them in a cellar.
More recently I found a key in the pointing between stones, very old but barely rusting. The previous owner was as surprised as us. The most recent was a bag of women's clothes under floor boards we are stripping off. The man who was here told us his aunt had lost them whilst on a visit in about 1956 but can't return them because she has no longer any need of clothes since 1988. RIP. How they got under the floorboards received shrugs but he thinks his father might have been having a bit of fun 'under the alfluence of incohol', as one might say slur, and forgot where they were when he sobered up.