Strawberry Hill 4

Suburban villa, Strawberry Hill style. Suburban villa also being the description on the deeds of our own, much more modest establishment in the Chase Estate. We did not get to check at an estate agents, but a quick peek at google suggests £2.5m, perhaps double what a house of that size would cost here, not that there are many.

Pity about the rather threadbare front gardens. Perhaps the owners are too busy extracting money from the rest of the economy to trouble about such bourgeois niceties.

Extractive industry being the description of our financial services industry once offered by the member of the great and good (I think a one-time banker) who had been asked to take a look at it in the wake of the great disaster of 2009 or so.