Apparently, the idea of extreme ironing as a competitive sport began life in the back garden of a terraced house in Leicester, when a young man decided to iron his smalls outdoors. I bought all sizes of covers at once; if I was in a pinch and my smalls were all in the wash, I cou...
Two structures dominate the St James’s Piccadilly garden: one a recreation of a corner of the Sir Christopher Wren designed church itself, complete with vast arched window, and the other a circular timber cabin topped by a tall spire which, when the garden is re-located to the church’s ...
Finished a long night on the Sunset Strip drinking whisky in a very dark bar at the front of the Sunset Marquis, its impenetrable, discrete, shadowy corners populated by more rock photos. Getting very drunk did not help, and I just felt like shit the next day. Apparently, the week after...
Being of an observant habit, he remembered that the house was overgrown by a huge wisteria, and faced eastward74. He turned his head painfully, and now saw that his windows were surrounded by mauve fronds75 of wisteria. His room was, therefore, situated76 in the front of the house. ...
A building facing the town square from the front is considered prestigious. Therefore, plots of land in this part of the town are usually among the most expensive. A feature of a well-developed space around the town square is the high density of buildings and a lack of unoccupied plots, ...