I had to go down through the village to have a look at a manhole cover, that's another story. While I was coming back I thought this entry to a close was worth a capture.
I called it a close because that's it's name, Orchard Close but it's also a Cul-de-sac which has an interesting meaning and where it comes from. The word means: A route or road leading nowhere and comes from the French word meaning "End of the Sack", which of course is closed one end.
It has 17 bungalows in it, including my ugly big Brother's, but where does the word bungalow come from and its meaning. A bungalow is a single-storied house with a sloping roof, often popular with pensioners and disabled, no stairs. It comes from the Hindi word meaning, "A house in a Bengali style", coming from the era of the British administration of India.
All of these bungalows started life as a single floored dwellings, but you can see by windows in the roofs and eves that floors have been added in the roofs. As I also have a bungalow I've always joked that the builder ran out of bricks so were told to "Bung-a-Low Roof on it.
Don't worry the story of my hunt for a dangerous manhole to follow another time.
Thanks for your description of the word bungalow Heather…..interesting that the word comes from India, I would never have guessed that. Funny I remember a certain film star who had a boyfriend nicknamed Bungalow Bill…do you remember that…poor Bill!
Interesting story. We live in a cul-de-sac but live in a single storey house because we don't use the word bungalow here for a main residence. A bungalow in Australia is usually a self contained residence at the rear of a house used to accommodate elderly relatives or older children.
OK yes I want to read the manhole story! That''s interesting about the cul-de-sac origin and I've always wondered what exactly makes a bungalow a bungalow - like this image feels almost like a pic in a storybook
August 6th, 2021
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