“they felt the need to slaughter the giants”
Read More“the mentality, the genus loci of Westminster is insular”
Read More“the most important piece of furniture in any household was the great bed – it was like the car parked in the driveway”
Read More“All drilling machines, like ships, are female”
Read More“the police called it Fagin’s Nursery” “Dickens knew the area well and it featured in his novels” “It’s changed a lot, mostly for the better” “ship building and ship breaking – the Temeraire and the Mayfloweer” “many would say they wouldn’t visit the area alone” “a mecca for foodies” Isobel introduces us to Bermondsey […]
Read More“there is a legend that one night during a butchers’ convention 26 butchers and their wives slept in this bed”
Read More“here we have William handing the red cap of liberty to Europe…here we have the man who invented the first television aerial [joke, needless to say]”
Read More“it took eight hits of the axe to get his head off, to put it bluntly”
Read More“Always drink upstream from the herd…we had to slip the surly bonds of the coach…fastly superior”
Read More“Simon took an American megastar on a tour and she liked it so much she asked for a second helping – booked Simon for the next day”
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