Yes, it is possible to have a toilet in your backyard office. Beyond that, you can either run water and drainage to your office shed — or take the easiest option of a waterless composting toilet.
Thanks to that national ad, Chicago native Nicole J. Simply put, the answer is yes. Adding a shed to your property will increase its sellability and the value of your property. Sheds offer more storage space and that alone is attractive to potential buyers.
They may or may not want a She Shed specifically, but a shed, in general, is a very nice feature. The origins of the term are a bit murky, but it seems to have first appeared around It also sounds as if he's spent time in Australia. Hayward doesn't sound at all RP or rustic to me. He has a slightly diphthong-shifted lower-middle class London-area accent with strong L-vocalization. Note the diphthongal final vowel of "opportunitY" in his first sentence, and the full L-vocalization of "well" in the first word of his second.
The diphthong shift is also characteristic of Australian accents, but I don't think L-vocalization is. The characteristics of the Martin the Gecko's speech that make him seem friendly and approachable seem to be mainly intonation and tempo, rather than phonetic realization.
I don't perceive a huge difference between Martin the Gecko and Hayward in terms of the actual phones they use. Tony Hayward doesn't have any of these features, as far as I can tell. So Hayward's accent may be a bit "downmarket" to use Ray Girvan's word but it does lack a number of specifically lower-class London features that Martin exhibits.
Yes, we are. Aside from the films not being exactly up-to-the-minute cultural references, no one would say "that Gecko" without any further context referring to Gordon and expect to be understood. A generous sample of other gecko TV ads can be found on YouTube.
Admittedly the two clips differ: on the news one which I'd still call downmarket RP he seems to be making more effort to pronounce "t"s compared to the "So wha' was our diagnosis? At least when I was growing up, marked L-vocalization in southern England wasn't exclusive to London; it was a part of a 'town' accent right down to the south coast I was brought up in Gosport, and my wife occasionally ribs me on my pronunciation of the end of words like "doll".
I grew up a few miles north of Reading, a bit further out from London than Eton, but Hayward's accent sounds very familiar to me — the way he says "troied" for tried, in the first clip, and the near glottal stop if that's the right way to put it at the end of "in part" and "not a lot" in the second clip. My guess is he started out with a lower social class accent similar to Ricky Gervais, who grew in Reading but has "poshified" his speaking voice over the years.
In the news clip I detect indications "pursue" that he has spent time in the US — or is trying to sound a little more friendly to American ears.
Or did that start when the accident happened? Is there some other entity that might reasonably be referenced by the initials BP or by confusingly similar initials, necessitating a distinction and if so, why not "BP Oil"? But I didn't start doing this during a banking crisis or after a scandal involving HSBC, I just read it somewhere and liked the name.
I give up. This really bothers me. I know where Tony Hayward is from. However, the various actors who have voiced the gecko are all British, and there's no question that this fictional character supposed to be English, and in particular to come from the London area.
Or did you mean to ask a different question, like "where are the computers located on which his images were generated? June 16, pm. When I spent two years living in England in the s, I tried to pay particular attention to the accents, and to learn to identify as many as I could.
After returning to the US, I impressed a hostess at a restaurant in California by asking if she was from Yorkshire, and recently I nailed the accent of a waitress in Los Angeles, as not just Scottish, but Glaswegian.
Anyway, I am sure I am no match for a trained Btitish phonetician, but to my ear, Tony Hayward's accent reminds me of someone who has risen from the working class to the middle class. His accent is in no way either upper class or Oxbridge, which are the accents I would consider "posh". I see from his bio that he obtained his first degree from Aston University, which was established in as the Birmingham Municipal Technical School, and upgraded to university status only in His speech and demeanor remind me of a type popular in British fiction and drama in the go-go Thatcher years, the young man on the make, sort of the British version of Sammy Glick from "What Makes Sammy Run".
But maybe I am just projecting, based on what is happening in the Gulf The more quotes you compare, the more chances to save. Editorial Guidelines : We are a free online resource for anyone interested in learning more about life insurance.
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