The Guardian Weekend magazine has a bit called Snooping around every Saturday and this week it was about homes in need of renovation. They weren’t kidding about that! Have a look at the photo below which is one of the featured homes.

As you can see it’s basically a shell, but it does have a great view, on a sunny day anyway. It’s the price which is the real shocker though as this shell of a house is on the market at £80,000 which translates to 123,104 US dollars. The shell is eight miles away from the nearest village shop too, so obviously it’s in a very remote area and I suspect that that means there is no mains water so no loo, definitely no electricity, in fact it was what is known as a but and ben in Scotland, which is a two roomed rural house with one room for the family and the other one for the animals.

I don’t think there are many such buildings still standing today, but I always had a hankering for one, In fact when we weren’t able to move back to my beloved west of Scotland (Argyll for preference) after Jack retired recently, due to there being no suitable houses for sale when we got our place sold, I did hope that I might stumble across a teeny wee cottage somewhere in Argyll which we could buy to use as a holiday place. I’m really not in favour of people owning two homes when there are so many people who don’t even have one, but a very basic place which couldn’t be used as a family home wouldn’t make me feel guilty about it.

Anyway as you can see, it’s not a problem I’m ever going to have if wrecks like the one above cost so much! Another dream bites the dust!