Showing posts with label buckinghamshire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label buckinghamshire. Show all posts

Sunday, August 10, 2008

Who lives in a house like this?

Somebody at the People really should read the Daily Express more often, if only to keep up with house prices. The paper gets a bit excited at the news Sarah Harding has bought a house:

Girls Aloud star SARAH HARDING and boyfriend TOM CRANE have splashed out more than £1million on a country mansion.

Except, it's in Princes Risborough, which - being in south Buckinghamshire - suggests that if you're only spending a million, you're going to be buying a large-ish town house rather than a country mansion. In fact, a million will get you just four bedrooms - a nice house, but hardly a mansion.

Mind you, the People just seems to be typing in stuff it's read on Wikipedia, blithely repeating that:
Princes Risborough, Bucks - the setting for TV's Midsomer Murders and Inspector Morse.

Morse might have filmed there, but we're pretty certain it might have been set somewhere else, you know...


Sunday, February 24, 2008

Cilla Black is the big draw

Now Magazine's piece on Amy Winehouse's supposed plans to move out of London seem a little obsessed with one aspect of a potential address:

Singer to move near Cilla Black in Buckinghamshire

Amy Winehouse is reportedly planning to leave the Big Smoke – to become neighbours with Cilla Black.

The singer, 24, is said to be keen on buying a house in Buckinghamshire, very near to the 64-year-old veteran star's home.

Unless Winehouse picked up the phone to the Estate Agents and barked "I want to live near Cilla", we suspect Ms Black living in the same county might not be quite as significant as the magazine thinks.

Actually, No Rock and Roll Fun comes to you from Buckinghamshire - so perhaps Amy's just keen to be near us.