*** UPDATE 24/7/09 Alan has now done his plinth stint and very entertaining it was too. Well done sir! ***

Walk around Trafalgar square in Central London and you will notice that one of the plinths is lacking any customary statuary.
Known as (wait for it) “The Fourth Plinth” it was originally meant to [...]

Unlike Jocelyn some of us didn’t want to remortgage our homes and go to Glastonbury this year to spend four days in a soggy tent listening to the constant thump thump of the dance tents.

No sirree, that’s not for me. I stick two fingers up to Glasto and have instead created the Staying At Home [...]

Our favourite shed blog, er, Shed Blog, has posted the rather fantastic new video for the official Shed Week song.
Sung with gusto by ‘Punks not Dad‘ it’s called, appropriately enough, ‘In Me Shed’.

Great video, great sentiment (it’s about all the things we do in our sheds) and pretty catchy in a ‘we know 3-ish chords [...]

Fancy borrowing a neighbourly cup of sugar from Norman Cook?
Or do you like the idea of paddling in the surf on your own private beach before inviting Nick Berry round for sherry?
Then look no further my property finding funsters as it seems a house on ‘Millionaire’s Row‘ in Hove is for sale (although I think [...]

In the midst of the whole MPs’ expenses row it seems two particular cases have caught the public imagination (and fired their ire).
First it was the fantastically ‘up-yours-plebs’ moat cleaning claimed by Douglas Hogg and more recently it’s been the Duck Island purchased by Sir Peter Viggers.
The Twittersphere was all over it. First, @CountryLifeProp tweeted [...]

The April edition of the FindaProperty.com Rental Index has hit the virtual shelves, with the headline:
“Two-Tier Rental Market Emerges: Houses Begin Recovery Whilst Flats Continue To Suffer”
Click here to read more headlines from the April Rental Index or click here to download the full Rental Index pdf. ( 1.7MB approx)
Alternatively if you prefer a more [...]

“The fully outfitted, meticulously detailed, two bedroom, Boeing 727 fuselage suite” at Hotel Costa Verde, Costa Rica.
Just… wow.
(via Inhabitat)

Sometimes you’re drawn into a world you know little about and come back both amazed and enlightened.
It’s happened to me twice today already. The first came about by following the @talkirish Twitter feed.
To explain: I have an Irish girlfriend I’d like to impress with my knowledge of her native tongue. But thus far my Irish [...]

Everyone’s aflutter over Twitter. Its trajectory over the last few months has been as steep as North Korea’s recent ’satellite’ (cough) launch; but unlike the Korean rocket, Twitter continues to rise and rise (insert Vaughan Williams ‘Lark Ascending’ allusion here).
I’d like to brag that FindaProperty.com was one of the pioneers of the medium, but we [...]

If you’ve seen the new FindaProperty.com Rental Index, but haven’t had the time to skim through its unique overview of the UK lettings market, then you can now watch our Head of Research, Andrew Smith, talking to Cantos about the Index and giving you all the juicy bits: