5714 ( @5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English17•3 months agoI don’t think the house’ plot is weird, but it is weird that the surrounding fields don’t have vegetation.
EnglandBelgium does not need to be a steppe. lad ( @sukhmel@programming.dev ) 26•3 months agoThey seem to be freshly ploughed, something will grow there, eventually.
A house with a narrow strip for a garden is a bit weird though
5714 ( @5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English7•3 months agoLooks more like harrowed or cultivated than ploughed.
What I initially meant was that the fields are large-ish and could have more and better buffer strips among them.
jonsnothere ( @jonsnothere@beehaw.org ) 7•3 months agoThis is Belgium, it’s a great example of what we call “koterijen”
5714 ( @5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English3•3 months agoWhat does koterij roughly mean in English (or German)?
jonsnothere ( @jonsnothere@beehaw.org ) 8•3 months agoIt refers to the annexes you see growing out of the back of the house. People used to (and sometimes still do) start with a modest house, and then as time went on and money came in, build out into the yard, adding a new kitchen, toilet, shed, veranda, etc.
It has since also come to refer to things that get extended and patched up over time without a lot of coherence or forethought, like our tax codes (they just add rules, bonuses, penalties, etc. on top of the baseline instead of doing a thorough tax reform)
5714 ( @5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English2•3 months agoIs modularity then kind of a thing in Belgian society?
jonsnothere ( @jonsnothere@beehaw.org ) 2•3 months agoWell, we have 6 governments, does that count?
Deconceptualist ( @Deconceptualist@lemm.ee ) English15•3 months agoWell put a saucepan on my head and call me Dave.
occhineri ( @occhineri@feddit.de ) 7•3 months agoNo sane person would ever grow a lawn anyway
Titou ( @Titou@feddit.de ) 5•3 months agoMinecraft AP on faction servers