Milton Keynes was 40 this year. So it was born in the car-crazy sixties. Lots of big roads and single family homes sprawling out. It would make an American homesick. This house has with its garage right out in front, is sometimes called a snout house because its wearing its garage like a rather ugly nose. I had to laugh because I come all the way to the UK and go for fun out to look at suburban houses. The rest of the day involed checking out the old town that MK was built around. Which was interestingly a coach stop on the way from London to parts north. Becasue it was a coach stop there were several competeing pubs including The Cock and The Bull. The two competeing pubs used to have competitions to tell the tallest tales - so is it theorigin of teh cock and bull story - or just another fairy tell they tell Americans?
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