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misheleneous Handmade Gifts | Home & Hound @misheleneous.bsky.social

It was but I was a student in the early 90s so it was the very least of my accomodation problems! 🀣 Doing battle with the cockroaches, silverfish, dodgy wiring, unusual plumbing, carbon monoxide roulette, single glazing, scary cellar, interesting neighbours/hood etc etc....πŸ€ͺπŸ™ˆπŸ˜„ #happydays

aug 26, 2025, 8:49 pm β€’ 3 0

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Billy @billycairn.bsky.social

Gosh and you survived! Mind you it sounds a bit like Uncle Ed’s student accommodation in Leicester. In one place he shared with medical students they must have been trying to make their own penicillin, even Ed bought disinfectant wipes cos it was so disgusting 🀒 😱🐢🐾😘

aug 27, 2025, 6:49 am β€’ 2 0 β€’ view
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misheleneous Handmade Gifts | Home & Hound @misheleneous.bsky.social

🀣🀣🀣 I dont even know if we had disinfectant wipes back then Billy! It was all 'character building'. We did survive, probably because we werent fully with it a lot of the time 🀫😜 Health and safety was a thing of the distant future back then. Growing your own penicillin sounds good though πŸ˜†

aug 27, 2025, 7:55 am β€’ 2 0 β€’ view
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Billy @billycairn.bsky.social

It was disgusting and they were training to be Drs 😱 and they kept burning holes in the carpet too. He was glad to move out of those digs. 🀣🀣🀣

aug 27, 2025, 4:27 pm β€’ 1 0 β€’ view
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misheleneous Handmade Gifts | Home & Hound @misheleneous.bsky.social

πŸ˜†πŸ˜†πŸ˜† Indoor BBQs or ciggie burns? πŸ€”

aug 27, 2025, 5:05 pm β€’ 1 0 β€’ view
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Billy @billycairn.bsky.social

Hubbly bubbly pipe. He was very angry cos they kept burning the carpet 😬 he was worried as he thought he wouldn’t get his deposit back but luckily he did 🐢🐾😘

aug 27, 2025, 6:48 pm β€’ 1 0 β€’ view
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misheleneous Handmade Gifts | Home & Hound @misheleneous.bsky.social

🀣🀣🀣 not many of us ever expected to see our deposits again!

aug 27, 2025, 7:27 pm β€’ 1 0 β€’ view
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Billy @billycairn.bsky.social

He needed the money as he wanted to go on to do his masters and go into a house share with his mates 🐢🐾😘

aug 27, 2025, 8:12 pm β€’ 1 0 β€’ view