This Quirky house is for sale at a cool one million dollars (£795,000:00)
It is in a village called Hertford apparently one of the most desirable and expensive place to live in the UK. It is said to be a Quaint Victorian Water Tower.
My next Q stands for Daniel Quilp who is an evil little dwarf in Charles Dickens' 'The Old Curiosity Shop'.
Quilp lends money to Nell's grandfather, who has a gambling habit .
Nell is the main protagonist in the story and lives in the shop with her grandfather, who is struggling to raise her after her parents died.
The reason why grandfather is gambling is so that he can leave Nell enough money to keep her after he's gone.
Unfortunately he gambles all the money away and can't repay Quilp.
So, he and Nell go on the run to escape the dwarf.
Quilp attempts to find them but thankfully, is unsuccessful!
Later, Quilp is pursued by the Police, but he gets lost in the fog and drowns in the River Thames.
This a brief synopsis of one of Charles Dickens most popular stories.
If you haven't read the story I hope you can get a copy, it's a real good read with lot's more Quirky Dickensian characters.
My sincere thanks to the QUITE lovely, QUINTESSENTIALLY, Yorkshire lass DENISE for devising ABCW and also to ROGER who QUIETLY, goes about the QUANTUM task of administrating this QUIRKY and interesting blog site..
Also not forgetting the team of tireless bloggers who help out with the visits!
Best wishes,
Di.
ABCW team.
and also to the
Hi Di - a really quirky post this week! Things are "quiet" here now as daughter & SIL are home and things are back to normal. Unfortunately, though, I've picked up a head and chest cold...so even I am quiet as I can't talk. *le sigh*
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abcw team
Oh poor you Leslie,
ReplyDeleteI bet the gran babes shared a few of their
germs with you, they're natural carriers, nearly every
time I see ours I catch something.
Hope you feel better soon,
love Di.
ABCW team.
If i would be that rich (in money-wise) i would have a second home in your country...
ReplyDeleteBut as long as i am without that money i'll keep on dreaming ;-)
Have a nice abc-day/-week
♫ M e l ☺ d y ♫ (abc-w-team)
I love the words Quirky and Quaint. They have a musical touch to them.
ReplyDeleteWonderful variety of Q words and intriguing photos ~
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artmusedog and carol
Thank you for telling this book. I saw the movie and enjoyed watching it.'the Old Curiosity Shop" is one of the few books by Dickens I didn't read.I like his books and I am a true fan of his.
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Wil, ABCW Team.
So when are you moving into the QUIRKY house?
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I love the Q words, and you have chosen some really special ones.
ReplyDeleteThere's a very similar one in Rye, Trubes. Very old and similar shape too!
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Thanks for your comment.I know that Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings are not to everybody's taste, but I liked them and read all those books. For my English examination I had to read many books among them were books I really didn't like!
ReplyDeleteQuirky indeed. I wonder who bought it.
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excellent.
ReplyDeletehas to be quirky to buy that house for one million pounds.
ReplyDeleteThat must be strange to live in a round house, I just try to imagine how to put my furniture !
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure I could live in a round house without feeling dizzy.
ReplyDeleteQuite the unique home.
ReplyDeleteKinda hared to hang family photos!
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It would be fun to live in a water tower reading stories like the "Curiousity Shop". I'm going to see if there are photos of the inside to see what makes it worth $1 million besides the address.
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top photo my adult ESOL students were queuing to visit an icecream factory.
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Here's a book I haven't read. Thanks for that synopsis. As I grow older I find I don't have the patience for Dickens and his long drawn out works. That's rather sad considering I read a lot of him when I was in college.
ReplyDeleteThanks yet again to all for the lovely comments, I'm not able to reply individually at present, but all comments are most appreciated.
ReplyDeleteBest wishes,
Di,
ABCW team.
Thank goodness you weren't moved to recount the death scene of little Nell.
ReplyDeleteEven Dickens nods...
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