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 [...]

If you took one dollop of 2001: A Space Odyssey, whisked in a hefty glug of Blade Runner and added a dash of The Mummy you’d end up with something like Makoto Tanijiri’s sleekly beautiful Pyramid house in Saijo, Hiroshima, Japan.
Not only is it a stunningly futuristic statement, but it also apparently echoes the earliest [...]

At last, our reluctant moving saga is almost at an end, and I’m happy to report that great progress has been made in the past week, despite a bit of a false start.
Last weekend, we decided to postpone Valentine’s Day even though it was our first one as a married couple. (Should I be concerned…??!)
Instead, [...]

I’m sometimes seduced by the idea of downsizing and living on the road, but I find modern mobile living solutions are inherently fugly (admittedly with some exceptions; design classic the Airstream caravan for one, and the Comfort Caravan below ain’t bad neither).
Now I think I’ve found the answer. Teeny, tiny houses made of wood! And [...]

“Rudimentary illimitable sewerage? malformation, backstop carolyn.
Clog document millionaire? last, last lucy”
No I haven’t been channelling TS Eliot again. (Last time I tried that, I kept seeing women coming and going, talking about Michaelangelo – all rather weird.)
Instead, this deathless verse is but a fragment from one of the occasional spam emails we get here at [...]