Part of my job here at FAP Towers is to upload photos onto the FindaProperty.com area guide pages.
Most of the photos are as per the brief: they give you an idea of what it’s like to live in a particular area. So, house styles, local amenities, shops, pubs, green areas, transport links and waterfowl.
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Here are the top 20 areas that people searched for on FindaProperty.com during June.

I read recently that Stuart Hill had declared independence for the island of Forvik.
You may remember Stuart. He was dubbed ‘Captain Calamity’ by some, following his disastrous attempt to circumnavigate the UK in little more than a rowing boat with a windsurf sail attached. You think I’m joking? I’m not.
His latest venture is an attempt [...]

Not content with heating Buckingham Palace with Geothermal energy Mrs Windsor has bought oneself a jolly big windmill, aka a 7.5 Megawatt Wind Turbine.
And not one to do things by halves she’s bought THE BIGGEST WIND TURBINE IN THE WORLD! Go Liz, go!
Appropriately enough, it’s called ‘Britannia’ and will be situated in the sea off [...]

Willem Dafoe’s rubber pad is up for sale according to the celeb real-estate website The Real Estalker and rather nice it is too. If rubber is your thing that is.

It’s only rubber clad, so it’s not strictly a rubber house … that’d be silly. It’d wobble around far too much and smell like an inner tube. Not [...]

When April departs with its sweet showers and the sun once more shines through, then folk longingly look towards the festival season.
They dream of blissful days lounging in tents under an azure sky with the thump thump thump of a distant sound system calling them to wave their arms in the air (like they just [...]

Given the current fragile state of the housing market it seems some people are looking for an alternative to the traditional bricks and mortar abode.
My brother, for example, has just bought himself a narrowboat. It’s lovely: the epitome of compact and bijou and best of all, it’s mobile.
Well, mostly mobile – I got a text [...]

Recently I wrote about the ultimate in avian accessories, a Richard Meier inspired birdhouse, the apogee of modern living for birds.
Or so I thought.
Apparently that’s just not good enough for our feathered friends.
“Inspired?” choked my friend Sid the sparrow as we shared a seedcake the other day, “Inspired?!? That’s not flappin’ good enough! I spent [...]

So, Mike’s scarily believable April Fools piece about the trials and tribulations of Phil Spencer garnered a fair amount of feedback, not just on FindaProperty.com but also over on the forums of our arch-nemesis Housepricecrash.co.uk.
Mostly the joke was well-received, but one comment in particular stuck out; posted by Super Ted (possibly not his real name):
“A [...]

No, I’m not talking about John Belushi in a toga. Instead I’ve got pictures of hedgehog houses, bat belfries and ladybird towers dancing before my eyes.
Relax, dear reader, I haven’t eaten magic mushrooms and ended up in a psychedelic Beatrix Potter world.
All the above abodes are available to the great British gardener to encourage wildlife [...]