MY HOUSE!

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MY HOUSE!

• By Matt Wragg.

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Introduction to MY HOUSE

• My house is indeed the quintessential 1970s
  style suburbs but in the country style house
  which were quickly erected in, aptly, the 1970s.
  
• It is made of bricks and morter, and has white,
  wooden panelling-trimming-decorative bordering
  around the top of it.

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• Due to its nature, my house looks very similar
  to the other houses around where it is, we live
  on an estate called Blackthorpe due to its
  close situation to the well known, in the region,
  Blackthorpe Barns.
• Each house, though, has their own quirky little
  individual quality, e.g. some have painted
  panelling, some extensions and some even solar
  panels and a small turbine.

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• Our unique quality was not designed or chosen
  by us as we have only lived here for 9 years.
• The changes that we have made to the house though
  are visible as we have replaced ALL the windows
  and doors and have re-organised/demolished parts
  of the garden to make way for patioing and open
  space for lounging around.

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HOUSEHOLD

• To stop this turning into the story of my house,
  which is frankly quite plain and Im sure would
  bore you all, I will now explain a little about
  my family (or atleast the family I live with/see
  on a daily basis).

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Mum

• The breadwinner and all-round AWESOMENESS
  (thats not a real word so dont quote it please)
  of the house. She supports and helps myself and
  my brother at all crucial points and is
  everything I could ask for in a mother, she even
  drives us everywhere ?.

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• Because of my parents divorce when myself and my
  brother were both quite young, my mum is very
  attached to Tim (thats my brother) and I. This
  is not a bad thing though as she is never
  restrictive of what we do and is a very friendly
  and loving person.
• And at the end of it all, she always has our best
  interests at heart cue awwww.

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Mum on holiday with her partner.
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TIM

• My little brother and the care-free young one of
  the household.
• He is in his 8th year of schooling and is about
  to make the move to upper-school (wish him
  luck!).
• What he lacks in common sense he makes up in his
  honesty and niceness (again, dont quote that
  non existent word please), even though many
  people will comment on mine and his lack of a,
  urm, brotherly (or fraternal for a fancy word D)
  relationship. Except that of a biological one.

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My little brother on holiday, with our dads dog,
looking suitable unimpressed.
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ME

• Im pretty sure you know who I am by now, and if
  you dont well then I wish we had talked more
  when you were over on the exchange (thats
  directed at the Belgians, if another school is
  looking at this, then hey waves).
• If you would like to know me though, ask anyone
  who was on the exchange and Im sure they will
  have one opinion or another, in which case ask
  around, I wouldnt want you to only think I was
  really nice or really horrid.

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Im wearing the beard (Y). Just to clarify, I do
not endorse Marxism, although it is interesting
to think about.
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OVERVIEW

• Although we are a tight knit family, we rarely
  spend time together because that is just the way
  things have developed.
• Nothing is wrong with how we live though and,
  although many people say we would prefer each
  others company of we did spend more time
  together, we enjoy each others company and this
  is what I call family.

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ROOMS

• Im not going to do every room in the house, as
  my mother and brother would hardly like everyone
  in their rooms, and no one really likes looking
  at other peoples bathrooms (and if you do then
  dont be nosey!).
• I shall, though, do the rooms which are most
  important to me. My room, the living room, the
  music room, and the loft.

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My Room

• My room is a cluttered collection of ticket
  stubs, posters, school work, rugbystuff and
  things normally associated with a teenage
  lifestyle.
• My room is where i tend to spend most of my time,
  that and running into the music room to play
  drums.
• I have in my possession in excess of 100 dvds and
  300 cds, I am unaware of how this happened, but
  it has, so I have found room, along with my
  miniature library of books and essays I have
  downloaded of the internet Nerd.
• I love my room, and it is my favourite room in
  the house because of what it is, it is a place of
  bliss and escapement from everything else. My own
  little haven.

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• I have a lot of posters as memories of things I
  have done, and the ticket stubs for the paces I
  have been, bands I have seen and through respect
  for friends I no longer see that I went to some
  of these places with.
• The general collage look of my bedroom is
  something I take pride in. Underneath this the
  walls are a bland creamy colour which is of no
  interest to anyone.
• The posters also reflect my general interests. I
  think one of the reasons I put so many up is
  because I like what I like, and I like to glance
  at something and think good film, or amazing
  band.
• Id also like to point out, I only like Enter
  Shikaris first album.
• I also LOVE Sin City and have GENUINE still shots
  from the original film reel D as well as all
  the novels again, NERD.
• I also have even more posters on the
  ceiling.its a bit of a joke.

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The Living Room

• This is where we tend to spend most of our time
  together as a family, talking, watching TV,
  generally socialising and spending time with the
  relatives.
• This said, we do not spend a lot of time in there
  together because we all prefer to do our own
  separate things.
• This is what you could call our family room. We
  spend christmas together here, which is always
  fun because of the television on around
  christmas, and were we spend birthdays.
• I guess my brother likes it because it has the
  big tv and my mum likes it because its were we
  spend time together.

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The Music Room

• OR the more appropritely named
  Room-with-all-the-instruments-in-but-only-Matt-can
  -actually-play-any-of-them.
• This is were I play/practice and generally do
  anything with the drums.
• Because they take up so much room we gave them
  their own little room so that I had enough room
  in my bedroom.
• This used to be my bedroom though, which is why
  the walls are so bad, because I had posters up in
  here, but it was too small so I moved rooms.
• I tend to spend a lot of time in here looking
  after my drums as much as I do playing them, it
  is better to care about then it is to wear out!
• Before you ask yes, that is toast on one of my
  drums.

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The Loft

• The loft is quiet and cool, which is why I like
  it. Its a good place to read, or listen to
  music, or write music and I have spent many times
  sat up here with friends writing songs on an
  acoustic guitar and plastic tub.
• This said, its gets very cold very quick, so
  trying to read a book isnt recommended as you
  will soon need to leave.
• It has had its series of bad incidents though.
  My mum fell out of the loft, and my little
  brother fell asleep up here and we thought we had
  lost him, and then I always lose things up here.
  So as good as it is, its a bit of a menace
  really.