Ok, I know this is a silly question, but what is that term for when the
weather mirrors a character's mood in fiction?  Y'know, say a character is
angry and there is a storm raging, or mopey and miserable and it's drizzling
and grey?  I know there is a term for it, but google has not been my friend.

Also, do Americans use the word drizzle to describe weather?

Help me Obi Wan Kenobi...

--
Rhiannon_s
I am me, this is now, we are here!

rhiannon s wrote:
> Ok, I know this is a silly question, but what is that term for when
> the weather mirrors a character's mood in fiction?  Y'know, say a
> character is angry and there is a storm raging, or mopey and
> miserable and it's drizzling and grey?  I know there is a term for
> it, but google has not been my friend.

Symbolism. Metaphore. Imagery.

> Also, do Americans use the word drizzle to describe weather?

Us Aussies do.

Yowie

"Yowie"  wrote in message 
news:67vkv6F2qflb1U1@mid.individual.net...
> rhiannon s wrote:
>> Ok, I know this is a silly question, but what is that term for when
>> the weather mirrors a character's mood in fiction?  Y'know, say a
>> character is angry and there is a storm raging, or mopey and
>> miserable and it's drizzling and grey?  I know there is a term for
>> it, but google has not been my friend.
>
> Symbolism. Metaphore. Imagery.
>
>> Also, do Americans use the word drizzle to describe weather?
>
> Us Aussies do.
>
> Yowie

Some Canadians do to.Although it might have come over with the emigrants.
  Jackdaw

Who lived there for ten years.

In article <DvqdnftBzJ3FzofVnZ2dnUVZ8j6dnZ2d@plusnet>,
 "rhiannon s"  wrote:

> Ok, I know this is a silly question, but what is that term for when the
> weather mirrors a character's mood in fiction?  Y'know, say a character is
> angry and there is a storm raging, or mopey and miserable and it's drizzling
> and grey?  I know there is a term for it, but google has not been my friend.

IIRC, that's the "sympathetic fallacy."

> Also, do Americans use the word drizzle to describe weather?

Yes.  Especially in Oregon and Washington States.  When they're not 
having a drought.

Blessed be,
Baird

"Baird Stafford"  wrote in message
news:baird-BB69F0.04092302052008@news-server.cfl.rr.com...
> In article <DvqdnftBzJ3FzofVnZ2dnUVZ8j6dnZ2d@plusnet>,
>  "rhiannon s"  wrote:
>
> > Ok, I know this is a silly question, but what is that term for when the
> > weather mirrors a character's mood in fiction?  Y'know, say a character
is
> > angry and there is a storm raging, or mopey and miserable and it's
drizzling
> > and grey?  I know there is a term for it, but google has not been my
friend.
>
> IIRC, that's the "sympathetic fallacy."

dats der bunny!  I swear I'm getting thicker by the minute!  Thank you:o)  I
can now go and give one of my fanfic characters some dialogue at last.

> > Also, do Americans use the word drizzle to describe weather?
>
> Yes.  Especially in Oregon and Washington States.  When they're not
> having a drought.

Cool.  This whole two countries divided by one language thing sucks.

--
Rhiannon_s
I am me, this is now, we are here!

"dicon"  wrote in message
news:wAySj.3055$WA5.1659@newsfe6-gui.ntli.net...
>
> "Yowie"  wrote in message
> news:67vkv6F2qflb1U1@mid.individual.net...
> > rhiannon s wrote:
> >> Ok, I know this is a silly question, but what is that term for when
> >> the weather mirrors a character's mood in fiction?  Y'know, say a
> >> character is angry and there is a storm raging, or mopey and
> >> miserable and it's drizzling and grey?  I know there is a term for
> >> it, but google has not been my friend.
> >
> > Symbolism. Metaphore. Imagery.
> >
> >> Also, do Americans use the word drizzle to describe weather?
> >
> > Us Aussies do.
> >
> > Yowie
>
> Some Canadians do to.Although it might have come over with the emigrants.
>   Jackdaw
>
Ah TY, since the characters in question live in one of the northern states
that border Canada (the one with the long funny name that is always abbrv.
to Mass.)then even if they don't in most of the states it's ok.

:o)
--
Rhiannon_s
I am me, this is now, we are here!

"Yowie"  wrote in message
news:67vkv6F2qflb1U1@mid.individual.net...
> rhiannon s wrote:
> > Ok, I know this is a silly question, but what is that term for when
> > the weather mirrors a character's mood in fiction?  Y'know, say a
> > character is angry and there is a storm raging, or mopey and
> > miserable and it's drizzling and grey?  I know there is a term for
> > it, but google has not been my friend.
>
> Symbolism. Metaphore. Imagery.

Been answered down thread, but yeah, I could work that in.  Thank you.  I'm
fanficcing again.  So I'm giving characters extra vocabulary, and furniture.
I've already reorganised one character's room and bought some extra
furniture just so I could have one particular scene to torture her psyche.
Is that wrong of me?

> > Also, do Americans use the word drizzle to describe weather?
>
> Us Aussies do.
Interesting, I didn't realise Australia got enough precipitation to even
have one word for rain :oP

Sorry, cheap jibe, but I couldn't resist.  :o)
--
Rhiannon_s
I am me, this is now, we are here!

Baird Stafford wrote:
<snip>
> 
> IIRC, that's the "sympathetic fallacy."
<snip>
IIRC, you've put an extra syllable on the front. "Pathetic fallacy" -- 
'fallacy of pathos,' or emotion, the term coined by John Ruskin who 
claimed such a creation of atmosphere was a fallacy rather than 
crediting it as a literary device.

-- 
Blessed Be,
Gale

original fiction, poetry, reviews http://www.capjewels.com

"Progress which pursues only the next invention, progress which pulls 
thought out of the mind and replaces it with idle slogans, is not 
progress at all. It is a beckoning mirage in a desert over which stagger 
the generations of men." -- Loren Eisley, _The Firmament of Time_

In article <W5ydnRkj9aNakYbVnZ2dnUVZ8tKsnZ2d@plusnet>,
 "rhiannon s"  wrote:

> Ah TY, since the characters in question live in one of the northern states
> that border Canada (the one with the long funny name that is always abbrv.
> to Mass.)then even if they don't in most of the states it's ok.

Erm...Mass. does not border Canada, I'm afraid....  It used to, but then 
part of it broke away and called itself Maine.

Blessed be,
Baird
whose sister lives in Mass., and who would not have been able to resist 
the opportunity to visit the northern border (where, if he winds up in 
the wrong province, he doesn't speak the language) since he's already 
visited across the southern one (where he does).

In article <zbHSj.68722$vr3.23633@bignews2.bellsouth.net>,
 Gale  wrote:

> Baird Stafford wrote:
> <snip>
> > 
> > IIRC, that's the "sympathetic fallacy."
> <snip>
> IIRC, you've put an extra syllable on the front. "Pathetic fallacy" -- 
> 'fallacy of pathos,' or emotion, the term coined by John Ruskin who 
> claimed such a creation of atmosphere was a fallacy rather than 
> crediting it as a literary device.

You're right, but I didn't look it up until after I'd posted, of course.  
Naturally.

Blessed be,
Baird

"Baird Stafford"  wrote in message
news:baird-986116.16321702052008@news-server.cfl.rr.com...
> In article <W5ydnRkj9aNakYbVnZ2dnUVZ8tKsnZ2d@plusnet>,
>  "rhiannon s"  wrote:
>
> > Ah TY, since the characters in question live in one of the northern
states
> > that border Canada (the one with the long funny name that is always
abbrv.
> > to Mass.)then even if they don't in most of the states it's ok.
>
> Erm...Mass. does not border Canada, I'm afraid....  It used to, but then
> part of it broke away and called itself Maine.
>
> Blessed be,
> Baird
> whose sister lives in Mass., and who would not have been able to resist
> the opportunity to visit the northern border (where, if he winds up in
> the wrong province, he doesn't speak the language) since he's already
> visited across the southern one (where he does).

Oh blast, oh well I suck at geography.  Actually I suck at everything these
days.  I shall now go an hide in a cave somewhere.
--
Rhiannon_s
I am me, this is now, we are here!

"Baird Stafford"  wrote in message
news:baird-638EF8.16332002052008@news-server.cfl.rr.com...
> In article <zbHSj.68722$vr3.23633@bignews2.bellsouth.net>,
>  Gale  wrote:
>
> > Baird Stafford wrote:
> > <snip>
> > >
> > > IIRC, that's the "sympathetic fallacy."
> > <snip>
> > IIRC, you've put an extra syllable on the front. "Pathetic fallacy" --
> > 'fallacy of pathos,' or emotion, the term coined by John Ruskin who
> > claimed such a creation of atmosphere was a fallacy rather than
> > crediting it as a literary device.
>
> You're right, but I didn't look it up until after I'd posted, of course.
> Naturally.

and "oh blast" again.  Corrected.  Thank you everyone in this thread.
--
Rhiannon_s
I am me, this is now, we are here!

rhiannon s wrote:
> "Yowie"  wrote in message
> news:67vkv6F2qflb1U1@mid.individual.net...
>> rhiannon s wrote:
>>> Ok, I know this is a silly question, but what is that term for when
>>> the weather mirrors a character's mood in fiction?  Y'know, say a
>>> character is angry and there is a storm raging, or mopey and
>>> miserable and it's drizzling and grey?  I know there is a term for
>>> it, but google has not been my friend.
>>
>> Symbolism. Metaphore. Imagery.
>
> Been answered down thread, but yeah, I could work that in.  Thank
> you.  I'm fanficcing again.  So I'm giving characters extra
> vocabulary, and furniture. I've already reorganised one character's
> room and bought some extra furniture just so I could have one
> particular scene to torture her psyche. Is that wrong of me?

Sounds perfectly reasoinsable to me.I've mever got into the fanfic scene - 
mainly because I already have too many time wasting activities that I feel 
frustrated about not being able to keep up with (due to lack of time) and I 
don't need another addiction, errr, hobby.

>>> Also, do Americans use the word drizzle to describe weather?
>>
>> Us Aussies do.
> Interesting, I didn't realise Australia got enough precipitation to
> even have one word for rain :oP
>
> Sorry, cheap jibe, but I couldn't resist.  :o)

:-)

Its not so much we don't get rain, but rather, its very unevenly 
distributed. Its not unusual for one area to be in the grip of the worst 
drought in 100 years whilst 500 km away, they're having a 1 in 100 year 
flood.

Thus, there a poem that has the lines

"I love a sunburnt country,
  A land of sweeping plains,
  Of ragged mountain ranges,
  Of drought and flooding rains"

Complete poem at: http://www.imagesaustralia.com/mycountry.htm

Yowie

rhiannon s wrote:
> "Baird Stafford"  wrote in message
> news:baird-638EF8.16332002052008@news-server.cfl.rr.com...
>> In article <zbHSj.68722$vr3.23633@bignews2.bellsouth.net>,
>>  Gale  wrote:
>>
>>> Baird Stafford wrote:
>>> <snip>
>>>>
>>>> IIRC, that's the "sympathetic fallacy."
>>> <snip>
>>> IIRC, you've put an extra syllable on the front. "Pathetic fallacy"
>>> -- 'fallacy of pathos,' or emotion, the term coined by John Ruskin
>>> who claimed such a creation of atmosphere was a fallacy rather than
>>> crediting it as a literary device.
>>
>> You're right, but I didn't look it up until after I'd posted, of
>> course. Naturally.
>
> and "oh blast" again.  Corrected.  Thank you everyone in this thread.

Anthropomorphisation, personification and allegory also work. Thanks to 
Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathetic_fallacy

Thanks Baird & Gale, and of course rhiannon, for teaching me something new 
about the English language.

Yowie

rhiannon s wrote:
> "Baird Stafford"  wrote in message
> news:baird-986116.16321702052008@news-server.cfl.rr.com...
>> In article <W5ydnRkj9aNakYbVnZ2dnUVZ8tKsnZ2d@plusnet>,
>>  "rhiannon s"  wrote:
>>
>>> Ah TY, since the characters in question live in one of the northern
>>> states that border Canada (the one with the long funny name that is
>>> always abbrv. to Mass.)then even if they don't in most of the
>>> states it's ok.
>>
>> Erm...Mass. does not border Canada, I'm afraid....  It used to, but
>> then part of it broke away and called itself Maine.
>>
>> Blessed be,
>> Baird
>> whose sister lives in Mass., and who would not have been able to
>> resist the opportunity to visit the northern border (where, if he
>> winds up in the wrong province, he doesn't speak the language) since
>> he's already visited across the southern one (where he does).
>
> Oh blast, oh well I suck at geography.  Actually I suck at everything
> these days.  I shall now go an hide in a cave somewhere.

What if you suck at hiding in caves too?

On Fri, 2 May 2008 23:43:44 +0100, "Dr.Hal0nf1r£$"
<femail@nospam.kustomkomputa.co.uk.invalid> blethered:

>rhiannon s wrote:
>> "Baird Stafford"  wrote in message
>> news:baird-986116.16321702052008@news-server.cfl.rr.com...
>>> In article <W5ydnRkj9aNakYbVnZ2dnUVZ8tKsnZ2d@plusnet>,
>>>  "rhiannon s"  wrote:
>>>
>>>> Ah TY, since the characters in question live in one of the northern
>>>> states that border Canada (the one with the long funny name that is
>>>> always abbrv. to Mass.)then even if they don't in most of the
>>>> states it's ok.
>>>
>>> Erm...Mass. does not border Canada, I'm afraid....  It used to, but
>>> then part of it broke away and called itself Maine.
>>>
>>> Blessed be,
>>> Baird
>>> whose sister lives in Mass., and who would not have been able to
>>> resist the opportunity to visit the northern border (where, if he
>>> winds up in the wrong province, he doesn't speak the language) since
>>> he's already visited across the southern one (where he does).
>>
>> Oh blast, oh well I suck at geography.  Actually I suck at everything
>> these days.  I shall now go an hide in a cave somewhere.
>
>What if you suck at hiding in caves too?
>

"Hey, isn't that Rhiannon standing on that hillside over there?" ;-)


-- 
Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.
 -Elizabeth Watson

"Halla"  wrote in message
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> On Fri, 2 May 2008 23:43:44 +0100, "Dr.Hal0nf1r£$"
> <femail@nospam.kustomkomputa.co.uk.invalid> blethered:
>
> >rhiannon s wrote:
> >> "Baird Stafford"  wrote in message
> >> news:baird-986116.16321702052008@news-server.cfl.rr.com...
> >>> In article <W5ydnRkj9aNakYbVnZ2dnUVZ8tKsnZ2d@plusnet>,
> >>>  "rhiannon s"  wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Ah TY, since the characters in question live in one of the northern
> >>>> states that border Canada (the one with the long funny name that is
> >>>> always abbrv. to Mass.)then even if they don't in most of the
> >>>> states it's ok.
> >>>
> >>> Erm...Mass. does not border Canada, I'm afraid....  It used to, but
> >>> then part of it broke away and called itself Maine.
> >>>
> >>> Blessed be,
> >>> Baird
> >>> whose sister lives in Mass., and who would not have been able to
> >>> resist the opportunity to visit the northern border (where, if he
> >>> winds up in the wrong province, he doesn't speak the language) since
> >>> he's already visited across the southern one (where he does).
> >>
> >> Oh blast, oh well I suck at geography.  Actually I suck at everything
> >> these days.  I shall now go an hide in a cave somewhere.
> >
> >What if you suck at hiding in caves too?
> >
>
> "Hey, isn't that Rhiannon standing on that hillside over there?" ;-)
>
>

lol.  Hey, do you know how hard it is to find a decent cave near lockerbie?
--
Rhiannon_s
I am me, this is now, we are here!

"Dr.Hal0nf1r£$" <femail@nospam.kustomkomputa.co.uk.invalid> wrote in message 
news:TqednZ-BwsuDBIbVnZ2dnUVZ8q2dnZ2d@bt.com...
> rhiannon s wrote:
>> "Baird Stafford"  wrote in message
>> news:baird-986116.16321702052008@news-server.cfl.rr.com...
>>> In article <W5ydnRkj9aNakYbVnZ2dnUVZ8tKsnZ2d@plusnet>,
>>>  "rhiannon s"  wrote:
>>>
>>>> Ah TY, since the characters in question live in one of the northern
>>>> states that border Canada (the one with the long funny name that is
>>>> always abbrv. to Mass.)then even if they don't in most of the
>>>> states it's ok.
>>>
>>> Erm...Mass. does not border Canada, I'm afraid....  It used to, but
>>> then part of it broke away and called itself Maine.
>>>
>>> Blessed be,
>>> Baird
>>> whose sister lives in Mass., and who would not have been able to
>>> resist the opportunity to visit the northern border (where, if he
>>> winds up in the wrong province, he doesn't speak the language) since
>>> he's already visited across the southern one (where he does).
>>
>> Oh blast, oh well I suck at geography.  Actually I suck at everything
>> these days.  I shall now go an hide in a cave somewhere.
>
> What if you suck at hiding in caves too?

 In that case you are "stuffed", not only that, you will probably get a 
visit from the "COUNTY COUNCIL" enquiring into sanitary arrangements, the 
water authorities, the rates authorities, unemployment officers, the 
forestry commission and probably the police, ( are you or have you ever 
grown magic mushrooms in this cave? ).
Caves are expensive!

Jackdaw

"Yowie"  wrote in message 
news:681g12F2rbsc3U1@mid.individual.net...
> rhiannon s wrote:
>> "Baird Stafford"  wrote in message
>> news:baird-638EF8.16332002052008@news-server.cfl.rr.com...
>>> In article <zbHSj.68722$vr3.23633@bignews2.bellsouth.net>,
>>>  Gale  wrote:
>>>
>>>> Baird Stafford wrote:
>>>> <snip>
>>>>>
>>>>> IIRC, that's the "sympathetic fallacy."
>>>> <snip>
>>>> IIRC, you've put an extra syllable on the front. "Pathetic fallacy"
>>>> -- 'fallacy of pathos,' or emotion, the term coined by John Ruskin
>>>> who claimed such a creation of atmosphere was a fallacy rather than
>>>> crediting it as a literary device.
>>>
>>> You're right, but I didn't look it up until after I'd posted, of
>>> course. Naturally.
>>
>> and "oh blast" again.  Corrected.  Thank you everyone in this thread.
>
> Anthropomorphisation, personification and allegory also work. Thanks to 
> Wikipedia:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathetic_fallacy
>
> Thanks Baird & Gale, and of course rhiannon, for teaching me something new 
> about the English language.
>
> Yowie

You might be interested in pathos, ethos and logos, in rhetoric. Aristotle, 
I think (Gale will know :) Very useful for analysing the content and 
structure of 'stock' speeches, like inaugurations and so on.

Jani

dicon wrote:
> "Dr.Hal0nf1r£$" <femail@nospam.kustomkomputa.co.uk.invalid> wrote in
> message news:TqednZ-BwsuDBIbVnZ2dnUVZ8q2dnZ2d@bt.com...
>> rhiannon s wrote:
>>> "Baird Stafford"  wrote in message
>>> news:baird-986116.16321702052008@news-server.cfl.rr.com...
>>>> In article <W5ydnRkj9aNakYbVnZ2dnUVZ8tKsnZ2d@plusnet>,
>>>>  "rhiannon s"  wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Ah TY, since the characters in question live in one of the
>>>>> northern states that border Canada (the one with the long funny
>>>>> name that is always abbrv. to Mass.)then even if they don't in
>>>>> most of the states it's ok.
>>>>
>>>> Erm...Mass. does not border Canada, I'm afraid....  It used to, but
>>>> then part of it broke away and called itself Maine.
>>>>
>>>> Blessed be,
>>>> Baird
>>>> whose sister lives in Mass., and who would not have been able to
>>>> resist the opportunity to visit the northern border (where, if he
>>>> winds up in the wrong province, he doesn't speak the language)
>>>> since he's already visited across the southern one (where he does).
>>>
>>> Oh blast, oh well I suck at geography.  Actually I suck at
>>> everything these days.  I shall now go an hide in a cave somewhere.
>>
>> What if you suck at hiding in caves too?
>
> In that case you are "stuffed", not only that, you will probably get a
> visit from the "COUNTY COUNCIL" enquiring into sanitary arrangements,
> the water authorities, the rates authorities, unemployment officers,
> the forestry commission and probably the police, ( are you or have
> you ever grown magic mushrooms in this cave? ).
> Caves are expensive!
>
> Jackdaw

It's decided then; I'll stay under my rock.

"Dr.Hal0nf1r£$" <femail@nospam.kustomkomputa.co.uk.invalid> wrote in message
news:Eu2dncJDQv63gYDVnZ2dnUVZ8tqinZ2d@bt.com...
> dicon wrote:
> > "Dr.Hal0nf1r£$" <femail@nospam.kustomkomputa.co.uk.invalid> wrote in
> > message news:TqednZ-BwsuDBIbVnZ2dnUVZ8q2dnZ2d@bt.com...
> >> rhiannon s wrote:
> >>> "Baird Stafford"  wrote in message
> >>> news:baird-986116.16321702052008@news-server.cfl.rr.com...
> >>>> In article <W5ydnRkj9aNakYbVnZ2dnUVZ8tKsnZ2d@plusnet>,
> >>>>  "rhiannon s"  wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Ah TY, since the characters in question live in one of the
> >>>>> northern states that border Canada (the one with the long funny
> >>>>> name that is always abbrv. to Mass.)then even if they don't in
> >>>>> most of the states it's ok.
> >>>>
> >>>> Erm...Mass. does not border Canada, I'm afraid....  It used to, but
> >>>> then part of it broke away and called itself Maine.
> >>>>
> >>>> Blessed be,
> >>>> Baird
> >>>> whose sister lives in Mass., and who would not have been able to
> >>>> resist the opportunity to visit the northern border (where, if he
> >>>> winds up in the wrong province, he doesn't speak the language)
> >>>> since he's already visited across the southern one (where he does).
> >>>
> >>> Oh blast, oh well I suck at geography.  Actually I suck at
> >>> everything these days.  I shall now go an hide in a cave somewhere.
> >>
> >> What if you suck at hiding in caves too?
> >
> > In that case you are "stuffed", not only that, you will probably get a
> > visit from the "COUNTY COUNCIL" enquiring into sanitary arrangements,
> > the water authorities, the rates authorities, unemployment officers,
> > the forestry commission and probably the police, ( are you or have
> > you ever grown magic mushrooms in this cave? ).
> > Caves are expensive!
> >
> > Jackdaw
>
> It's decided then; I'll stay under my rock.
>

Did you get planning permission for that rock?
--
Rhiannon_s
I am me, this is now, we are here!

On Sun, 4 May 2008 11:21:58 +0100, "rhiannon s"
 blethered:

>
>
>"Dr.Hal0nf1r£$" <femail@nospam.kustomkomputa.co.uk.invalid> wrote in message
>news:Eu2dncJDQv63gYDVnZ2dnUVZ8tqinZ2d@bt.com...
<sniplet>
>>
>> It's decided then; I'll stay under my rock.
>>
>
>Did you get planning permission for that rock?

Is it of an approved building material?


-- 
Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.
 -Elizabeth Watson

Halla wrote:
> On Sun, 4 May 2008 11:21:58 +0100, "rhiannon s"
>  blethered:
>
>>
>>
>> "Dr.Hal0nf1r£$" <femail@nospam.kustomkomputa.co.uk.invalid> wrote in
>> message news:Eu2dncJDQv63gYDVnZ2dnUVZ8tqinZ2d@bt.com...
> <sniplet>
>>>
>>> It's decided then; I'll stay under my rock.
>>>
>>
>> Did you get planning permission for that rock?
>
> Is it of an approved building material?

I shall answer any government officials thus:

It is an existing dwelling dating back to the middle ages or before that has 
been regularly refurbished externally by natural processes throughout the 
years, and is constructed in a solid design from natural local materials. 
The appearance of the dwelling blends in unobtrusively with the surrounding 
environment and the interior is surface-level and partially subterranean.

The ancient construct was was originally designed long before the current 
building regulations were in force; and despite the absence of a DPC and 
air-vents; it has withstood the tests of time and the structure remains, 
quite literally, as solid as a rock.

"Dr.Hal0nf1r£$" <femail@nospam.kustomkomputa.co.uk.invalid> wrote in message
news:O6GdnY372vlQfoDVnZ2dnUVZ8hydnZ2d@bt.com...
> Halla wrote:
> > On Sun, 4 May 2008 11:21:58 +0100, "rhiannon s"
> >  blethered:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> "Dr.Hal0nf1r£$" <femail@nospam.kustomkomputa.co.uk.invalid> wrote in
> >> message news:Eu2dncJDQv63gYDVnZ2dnUVZ8tqinZ2d@bt.com...
> > <sniplet>
> >>>
> >>> It's decided then; I'll stay under my rock.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Did you get planning permission for that rock?
> >
> > Is it of an approved building material?
>
> I shall answer any government officials thus:
>
> It is an existing dwelling dating back to the middle ages or before that
has
> been regularly refurbished externally by natural processes throughout the
> years, and is constructed in a solid design from natural local materials.
> The appearance of the dwelling blends in unobtrusively with the
surrounding
> environment and the interior is surface-level and partially subterranean.
>
> The ancient construct was was originally designed long before the current
> building regulations were in force; and despite the absence of a DPC and
> air-vents; it has withstood the tests of time and the structure remains,
> quite literally, as solid as a rock.
>

Ooh, scheduled ancient monument status, I'll get the forms...Insurance, risk
assessment, inspection regime...this is gonna be an all nighter :op
--
Rhiannon_s
I am me, this is now, we are here!>

rhiannon s wrote:
> "Dr.Hal0nf1r£$" <femail@nospam.kustomkomputa.co.uk.invalid> wrote in
> message news:O6GdnY372vlQfoDVnZ2dnUVZ8hydnZ2d@bt.com...
>> Halla wrote:
>>> On Sun, 4 May 2008 11:21:58 +0100, "rhiannon s"
>>>  blethered:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "Dr.Hal0nf1r£$" <femail@nospam.kustomkomputa.co.uk.invalid> wrote
>>>> in message news:Eu2dncJDQv63gYDVnZ2dnUVZ8tqinZ2d@bt.com...
>>> <sniplet>
>>>>>
>>>>> It's decided then; I'll stay under my rock.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Did you get planning permission for that rock?
>>>
>>> Is it of an approved building material?
>>
>> I shall answer any government officials thus:
>>
>> It is an existing dwelling dating back to the middle ages or before
>> that has been regularly refurbished externally by natural processes
>> throughout the years, and is constructed in a solid design from
>> natural local materials. The appearance of the dwelling blends in
>> unobtrusively with the surrounding environment and the interior is
>> surface-level and partially subterranean.
>>
>> The ancient construct was was originally designed long before the
>> current building regulations were in force; and despite the absence
>> of a DPC and air-vents; it has withstood the tests of time and the
>> structure remains, quite literally, as solid as a rock.
>>
>
> Ooh, scheduled ancient monument status, I'll get the
> forms...Insurance, risk assessment, inspection regime...this is gonna
> be an all nighter :op

A Grade II listed rock?!