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Home Improvements
The English mania for ‘home improvements’, or ‘DIY’ ( DESCRIBE ) ‘the proverbial Englishman’ as ‘busy in house and garden and garage with his own hands’.
Never mind football, this is not the real national obsession. The English are a nation of nestbuilders. Almost the entire population ( INVOLVE ) in DIY, at least to some degree.
In a survey conducted by anthropologists about twenty years ago, only two per cent of English males and 12 per cent of females said that they never ( DO ) any DIY.
An updated research conducted much more recently found that nothing much ( CHANGE ), except the even higher proportion of women involved in DIY.
The ( COMMON ) motive for DIYing is that of ‘putting a personal stamp on the place’. This is clearly understood as an unwritten rule of home ownership, and a central element of the moving-in ritual, often involving the destruction of any evidence of the previous owner’s territorial marking.
Watch almost any residential street in England over a period of time, and you will notice that shortly after a For Sale sign ( COME ) down, a skip appears, to be fi lled with often perfectly serviceable bits of ripped-out kitchen or bathroom, along with ripped-out carpets, cupboards, fi replace-surrounds, ( SHELF ) , tiles, banisters, doors and even walls and ceilings.
Home Improvements
The English mania for ‘home improvements’, or ‘DIY’ DESCRIBES ‘the proverbial Englishman’ as ‘busy in house and garden and garage with his own hands’.
Never mind football, this is not the real national obsession. The English are a nation of nestbuilders. Almost the entire population IS INVOLVED in DIY, at least to some degree.
In a survey conducted by anthropologists about twenty years ago, only two per cent of English males and 12 per cent of females said that they never DID any DIY.
An updated research conducted much more recently found that nothing much HAD CHANGED, except the even higher proportion of women involved in DIY.
The MOST COMMON (или COMMONEST)motive for DIYing is that of ‘putting a personal stamp on the place’. This is clearly understood as an unwritten rule of home ownership, and a central element of the moving-in ritual, often involving the destruction of any evidence of the previous owner’s territorial marking.
Watch almost any residential street in England over a period of time, and you will notice that shortly after a For Sale sign COMES down, a skip appears, to be fi lled with often perfectly serviceable bits of ripped-out kitchen or bathroom, along with ripped-out carpets, cupboards, fi replace-surrounds, SHELVES , tiles, banisters, doors and even walls and ceilings.
