Memes an' stuff.

[wraithwitch]

Piked off of slavelabour...

"Comment and I will give you a colour and then you pick ten things you like in that colour..."

Comments

[spacedmonkey]

Rather wish my grandmother's home smelt of Lye soap instead of bowels.

[wraithwitch]

... =(

A bunch of neurons were quite serious about solving the smell, working out what a building could be made of and how it could be furnished so it was aesthetic, practical, cleanable and wouldn't smell of pee. They decided that tile floors or flagstones instead of carpets were a good start. There was much debate about floorboards and how much pee they had to soak up before they smelt of it and also what lye or carbolic did to the wood. (These never having been experiments I've attempted nor am likely to, neurons remain uncertain of the correct conclusion...)

[spacedmonkey]

I used to work in a hospital in Putney that was formerly an asylum and the quickest way between the buildings was through the tunnels down in the basement since it as a direct route from one wing to the other and it was always empty because people didn't like it down there. I rather did since it was a proper throw back with flagstones and old gaslight fittings and still had cells, with wooden signs on the doors saying "Cell One" and so on and occasionally "Mr Wingham" in faded ink or the name of some other inmate. It still smelt of lye and carbolic down there.

[wraithwitch]

*is greatly jealous*
that is so very very shiny =)

[spacedmonkey]

It really was. The first time I went down there, after several weeks of "You don't want to go down the tunnels" I did wonder if I'd imagined it.