Brookside Close – the whole thing – is going under the hammer today.  All 13 properties on Merseyside’s most famous cul-de-sac are being sold at auction with a guide price of £550,000- £600,000.
It seems quite fitting that the number of houses is an unlucky 13.
Previous residents have suffered an entire catalogue of disasters including a [...]

A recent photo-feature in the NY Daily News focused on 15 Central Park West, an extremely exclusive residential block overlooking the park.
It does look quite magnificent, in that ultra-swanky, elegant way that New York skyscrapers possess despite their magnitude.
But I’m more captivated by the residents of 15 CPW.  Well, one current resident, one wannabe, and [...]

Poor old Phil Spencer. It turns out that even he’s been a victim of the all-encompassing credit crunch, and has been forced to downscale his property business empire. Poor lamb.
Okay, that’s maybe a bit harsh.  And I actually really like Phil. There’s something very endearing about him, I think.

But is it cynical of me to [...]

Cadbury’s recently bucked the trend of most other businesses when they announced their profits were up by 11 per cent over the last quarter.
There’s got to be a connection between that and the general gloom that’s going around, surely?
We might not be able to heat our homes anymore but goddammit, we can still afford the [...]

It’s official: Glasgow is great. The Dear Green Place has only gone and made it into the Lonely Planet’s Top Ten list of best cities for visitors.
Not only that but it was the sole UK city to be included. Even better, it beat Edinburgh! Bring it on.
Of course, this news comes as no surprise to [...]

Here at Winging It, we’re all big fans of Charlie Brooker, the highly amusing Guardian columnist.
We also love Big Brother.  Okay, okay, that’s actually just me; the others have more refined tastes, if you overlook their unshakeable devotion to Kevin McCloud.
So it was a happy day - for me, anyway - when I read that Charlie, [...]

The latest example of Health & Safety gone mad is the news that young children shouldn’t be allowed to keep hamsters as pets.
And it’s not just the humble hamster that’s been deemed a dangerous health hazard; also in the firing line are lizards, turtles and hedgehogs.
Fair play re: hedgehogs, given that they’re formed almost entirely [...]

This morning, I got woken up, not by the familiar sound of my alarm, but by a series of thumps on my front door.  Not knocks: thumps.
By the time I’d recovered from leaping out of bed at high speed, scrambled for my dressing gown, and stumbled down the stairs, two workmen were emerging through the [...]

As of today, Energy Performance Certificates become mandatory for all new tenancies, and landlords will face charges of up to £200 per property if they don’t provide them.
The certificates, which will be valid for a period of ten years, must be issued by an accredited energy assessor, and provided free of charge to tenants.
EPCs rate [...]

Now here’s a novel notion: a church built out of beer cans.  Yep, that’s right.  A church. From beer cans.
Although it may sound like something straight from the mind of Homer Simpson, this is actually a true story of ecclesiastical architecture.
Having lost their main church building to developers, the parish of Colston Milton in Glasgow [...]