In last week’s Brighton-focused Five to View, I featured a pea-green house as the first property.
Granted, it might be a shade too lurid to suit all tastes, but I think it’s a great example of the many brightly coloured homes that are dotted around Brighton.
Coincidentally, a couple of days later I read a Telegraph article [...]

Brighton: it’s been practically impossible to miss it in the media this week, what with the political circus that is the Labour party conference rolling into town last Sunday.
And what a telly-genic place it is, too, particularly when the sun is shining, as it’s been doing a lot over the past few days.
Even Gordon Brown [...]

Well done to New York-based Stephen Holl Architects who recently won an international competition to design a new building for the Glasgow School of Art.
Coincidentally, the Art School’s main building was also the result of an architectural competition back in the 1890s, which was won by a then unknown Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

But my favourite competition construction in Glasgow is [...]

Happy Arthur Day, one and all! If, like I was until a couple of hours ago, you were unaware of such a day, I can tell you that it’s in honour of Arthur Guinness who, 250 years ago today, signed the lease for his legendary brewery in Dublin.

Let me help you with the mental arithmetic here:  [...]

It’s back to school this week as we take a look at school conversions.
Top marks to whoever had the brainwave of turning these one-time educational establishments into homes.
Their typical features include high ceilings and a multitude of windows, which makes them a very clever choice for transformation into light-filled living spaces, and the buildings themselves [...]

We have an agricultural theme this week. This, quite simply, is because I have been Farmville-d.
If you haven’t a clue what I’m on about, you are very, very lucky.
Farmville is a seemingly innocent Facebook game, but be warned: it can take over your life. (My name is Jocelyn, and .. sob! … I am a [...]

Back to your kennels, Andrex puppies, there’s a new dog on the block.
TV’s latest canine superstar, Churchill, is now available in cuddly toy form.  And – cute, cute, CUTE! – when you squeeze his tummy, he mutters his famous catchphrase.  Ohhhh Yesss.
So how much is that doggy from the advert?  A mere £14.99 – of [...]

So that’s it: summer appears to have gone for another year, before it even really arrived.
I say this after having been absolutely drenched twice yesterday – once on the way into work and again on the way home – followed by an evening of listening to relentless rain lashing against the windows.
Not surprisingly, the expression [...]

With this year’s Edinburgh Festival almost in its closing stages, we decided to don our tartan bonnets and kilts, and hotfoot it north to Scotland’s capital city.
As well as hosting the world’s most famous arts festival and being home to the globe’s biggest Hogmanay party, Edinburgh always ranks highly on those Most Fabulous Places to [...]

Oh, we all love to be beside the seaside, as the famous ditty goes, so this week we’re taking a look at properties with sea views.
Since we’re not short on coastal locations in Britain, being an island and all, we’ve focused our attention on the South West corner, namely Devon and Cornwall, both of which [...]