This week's prompt made me think of the house in which I was born.
It didn't look a bit like this but it did have a fence and some outhouses too, not that you would have known when looking at it from the front.
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| 100 High Street, Ketton |
When I lived there there was a wooden fence across the front, not that stone wall. It had no running water just a cold tap on an outside wall and when you wanted to 'go' you had to leave by the back door and visit what I euphemistically called "The Black Hole of Calcutta" -- a building with a wooden seat and an open bucket underneath.
So I hope you will forgive me for speculating on the use of:
in our prompt. Why else would you have a hole in the wall?
I doubt that the inhabitants of Bradford still have to pay a visit to the outhouses in this back alley.
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| Pickles Hill, Bradford Back alley between Boldon Lane and Poplar Avenue (By Paul Glazzard, Feb 2007 - Geograph Project Collection; CC BY-SA 2.0) |
But the view from Tyson's veranda in Queensland in 1924 made me wonder about the uses of the sheds between the fences.
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| Residential view from Tyson's veranda (John Oxley Library; State Library of Queensland) |
I doubt that my Calcutta euphemism will enter the Oxford English Dictionary but another term certainly has - it's even been used to describe a scene on Mount Kenya.
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| Top Hut on Mount Kenya - with long drop khazi in the foreground (By John Spooner, 1 Jan 1999 - CC By 2.0) |
Looks a bit draughty to me.
However I have saved the best (of)fences till last.
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| Fences at Mount Farm Museum (By Bill Hathorn, 20 July 2012 - PD, US Government) |
Excuse me while I just check to see whether that wooden hut is a 'khazi.'
Now flush' with success, I suggest that you find whether anyone caught the plague at Sepia-Saturday-218,
