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the_jubjub_bird ([personal profile] the_jubjub_bird) wrote2021-09-19 07:33 pm
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Hog Barbecue last Sunday a week ago



Our retired friends invited us to their gated community for a hog barbecue. They are living there in their static homes.
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[identity profile] shopa-golic.livejournal.com 2021-09-20 05:31 am (UTC)(link)
whole hog bbq

[identity profile] stary-kresowiak.livejournal.com 2021-10-27 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
Your friends live in STATIC homes. I wonder what DYNAMIC homes could be. Are they caravans?

[identity profile] the-jubjub-bird.livejournal.com 2021-10-27 09:06 am (UTC)(link)
No, these are not caravans as there are no wheels. These are wooden homes with all kitchen furniture and white goods already in place and the bathroom and toilet already installed. You can pre-order one with all the interiors made to your taste. They are delivered by lorries and installed on a concrete basement and connected to all the mains (gas, water, electricity, sewage). As these are not permanent the inhabitants do not have to pay council tax, but have to pay fees to the managing company. Usually they are installed in gated communities and the inhabitants are OAPs. In Poland these are called "domki holenderskie".

[identity profile] stary-kresowiak.livejournal.com 2021-10-27 01:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Interesting, thanks. During my eleven years in Britain, I have never come across with such housing. Static home is a new bit of vocabulary I have just learnt. Incidentally, in my years, people would not say OAPs, they would say just pensioners. Yet, I do know that British people love to abbreviate whatever they can, even more so than Americans do.
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