A room with a toilet?

Andrew Ellson has a pop at estate agents in The Times. For many, estate agents are one thing people would like to do without. The number of websites that allow an independent house sale is on the increase and Ellson himself says that he sold a property for more money than one estate agent valued it at. So he not only made more money, but he also saved on estate agent fees.

Ellson is obviously very lucky to be a writer, however. He says, "pointing out that a room with a toilet is a bathroom is not beyond the wit of an average five-year-old". However, with his grasp of the English language, Ellson has a head start. Is he seriously trying to say that the average person would be able to give a true meaning to the room with a toilet? I'm not sure I would. After all, from all the details I've seen of houses over the years, the toilet could feasibly be in one of many rooms:
* a bathroom
* a shower room
* a cloakroom
* an en-suite
I dread to think what other possibilities there are.

And for goodness sake! Please stop referring to it as a terrace house. It is a townhouse, darling. After all, it is within a short drive of a town. Terrace is SO last season and risks bringing the price you get for the house downwards.

See, no wonder house prices are going up. The descriptions of properties are going so upmarket that it wouldn't be fitting to sell something described so beautifully at a cheaper price than the previous year...