TERMINAL PUNCTUATION

I have stolen this meme from capri0mni . Or, well...it wasn't a meme, but it is now, ok?

So, here's my description of my dream house.

1. It's an ordinary-looking house and there's a shop within a pleasant stroll that sells fresh-baked bread, fruit, milk, cigarettes and booze (because I'm a realist, even in my fantasies), and where the chap or chapess behind the till is pleasant and chatty.

2. It has three storeys, and it has a basement. capri0mni 's dream house included a basement, which is what really made me want to pinch her idea. I'm not exactly an agorophobic, but I'm certainly a claustrophiliac, and the idea of being in my own little cosy, underground space makes me feel all warm and safe and happy. There would be lots of cushions and blankets. There would be steps down to the basement separate from the front door. There would be nooks and crannies with no obvious purpose.

3. It has secret passages and hidden doors. I have dreams about houses with secret passages. It's probably horribly Freudian or whatever, but there you have it. And, on the subject of dreams, there should be a room upstairs with naked wooden floorboards. There should be a big window, with two or three steps up to a platform in front of the window. The window looks out over an old, overgrown graveyard, which isn't at all spooky or morbid - it's comforting.

4. There's a bathroom (in the English sense - with a bath) in or near that room.

5. It's wheelchair accessible. It's an old house, so I'm picturing some kind of dumb-waiter contraption to get up to the attic. I'll haul on the rope if you can deal with the wobbling. Or we can fit a stairlift. But there will be a ramp at the front, gently sloping through the pretty front garden, and one at the back. And decking around the koi pond for wheelchairs. Also, I'll have the loos retro-fitted for general ease of use.

6. The name of my house will be "Green Odd".

Now let's meme-ify. Post five or six things about your dream house.

Testing for jdack 's benefit. Testing...testing...

Halp! I need to know how to say "This is all Greek to me" (and/or "It's all Greek to me", if that would be different) in Greek. It should be a literal translation, rather than a similar idiom actually used in Greek. For context, it's going to be a footnote to the CHF's rather metatextual PhD thesis, supposedly attributable to an 18th century satirist he is writing about. It's a joke, basically. Unfortunately, neither of us has any Greek. Sorry to bang on about this - he keeps bending my ear about it! Entry public, in case anyone wants to point somebody at it.

For clarity, it'll be something like this:

Blah blah blah, lots of very abstruse stuff about 18th
century satire, la la la, and so on and so forth.*

*This is all Greek to me - Satirical 18th Century Guy