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 [...]

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, [...]

Camp fans, rejoice, for I have news that will be music to your ears: the former Von Trapp family residence has been turned into a hotel.
Yes indeed, the one time Austrian home of Maria, The Captain and The Kids is about to throw open its doors so that you too can leap around a gazebo, [...]