Keeping busy
10.45am: I wake up from the last of a large number of micro-sleeps I've been lapsing into since waking first at 9. Time to get up. Come on. Today is the day I go back to the gym after a month away, no sense putting it off any longer.11.30am: Breakfast of porridge and honey, the breakfast of champions. And, uh, Goldilocks.11 [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 22:33:00
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Erotic Advent: 7 of 23
Healer By A.D.R. Forte Colored bunting hangs from the trees. Decorations for the feast of Sun Leave. It is the end of the long, hot, summer months, the months of war. After this come the rains, the bitterly cold days. She looks forward to those. The long black robes of an Aylar do not lend themselves kindly to days of relentless sun [more...]
Date: 2008-12-08 06:53:37
14 Century-Old Environmental Predictions: Where Are They Now?
In the December 1900 issue of Ladies Home Journal, John Elfreth Watkins put together a collection of predictions for the future of the United States and the world by the end of the 20th century. In “What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years”, Watkins surveyed a group of “the wisest and most careful men in our greatest institutions of science and [more...]
Date: 2009-01-01 08:00:13
Getting Their Butt Kicked, Too
The Seattle PI reports from Washington. “There was no denying the Seattle-area’s real estate funk at Williams Marketing’s annual forecast breakfast ... , with the median sales price of a King County house dipping below $400,000 for the first time since February 2006 ... . Seattle’s median house price was $416,000, also the lowest since February 2006 — and [more...]
Date: 2008-11-09 17:24:22
Celebrating Poe’s legacy
Daily Record Pick a major East Coast city at random, and you’re likely to find a 200th birthday celebration for Edgar Allan Poe. The peripatetic Poe — author of “The Raven,” ‘The Tell-Tale Heart” and other poems and tales of the macabre — was born in Boston on Jan. 19, 1809. He was raised largely in Richmond, Va [more...]
Date: 2008-12-23 20:00:01
TD Policy: Let’s not miss this opportunity
By: Rahul Saxena For the past two years, the people of the state of Himachal Pradesh have been facing a crisis of sorts - since the Timber Distribution (TD) rights were suspended by the orders of the Honourable High court, people have had immense difficulties in finding wood for construction and repair of their houses, religious [more...]
Date: 2009-01-04 08:18:58
Historical Tours in the South
Over past two holiday breaks, we have visited historic cities in the South: Savannah, GA, Beaufort, SC, Charleston, SC, Augusta, GA, ... . Many of the bus tours and carriage companies, like Oglethorpe Tours in Savannah, have guides ... problematic elements?This past year we were on a carriage ride in old town Beaufort. Our guide [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 14:37:59
Three Dreams on the Same Rainy Night
Describe a dream, lose a reader, Harold Robbins used to say. But this one’s different. ~Elatia HarrisI.I dreamt I was on a boat ... and the smell of boiling taro root rose and steam glistened the cabin-mold to the depth of a mirror ... of black and red and thought no more of lipstick, le chiffre or kohl, but of a time before [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 20:20:00
Blind Loyalty To A Brand?
The Big Three don't deserve one red cent of our (Canadian Taxpayers') money ... and carriage, when everyone else is producing those new-fangled cars. C'mon Canada - get with the times ... cars right now (because they are losing their houses).Americans and Canadians should have stopped [more...]
Date: 2008-12-16 21:29:00
Final throw of the dice on Pier/Wharf green space
The Sallins Local Area Plan is due to be adopted on 26th January (next Monday) and as far as most of us were concerned, it was a done deal. The draft plan was issued last June, submissions were invited over the Summer, amendments were made accordingly, and a final round of submissions (on the amendments) were taken in November [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 12:26:56
Milllion Dollar Listing Gets the Girl and Sells Big Houses!
Million Dollar Listing finishes the season tonight, and all the big questions will be answered. Will Chad and Victoria move in together? Will Josh decide to stay in the business? Can Madison woe Lauren back? And will there be blood when Josh and Chad have a photo shoot together? “To me, it’s about relationships,” Chad says [more...]
Date: 2008-09-10 05:00:43
Rome Areas and Neighbourhoods - Article Information
by Sara Dudleymore Let’s make your Italian experience something unique! Before booking your trip make sure to select the perfect location for your staing in Rome. Rome has many areas in the city center, each one with its own unique touch and style. Where should you start from? Here are some guidelines. 1) [more...]
Date: 2009-01-18 14:33:20
Summer of '83: Staying Alive
By Sarah D. Bunting and Joe Reid [Editor's Note: The House Next Door is hooking up with Movie Geeks United! for a look back at films from the Summer of 1983. We'll be publishing entries on this topic through Wednesday, June 18th, culminating in the premiere of the Movie Geeks' "Summer of '83" tribute show, [more...]
Date: 2008-06-16 05:17:33
Buttonwoods Part I
I used to live in the most idyllic place on earth. Or at least in Rhode island ... style houses, occupied by people with enough money to make them look like they did when they were new ... to be a road before the hurricane of '38 washed it out. It travels between the lovely houses [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 06:30:00
Londonist Behind The Lens: Simon K
Londonist Behind The Lenser, Simon Kimber, got these great shots of Barak Obama in London this weekend, including one with a very happy looking David Cameron who, of course, had just got his bike back. There is an image gallery to this entry which you can view at Londonist [ [more...]
Date: 2008-07-27 14:44:45
Taste Not Space
(Image via)This is the second part of the post I started last week (on architecture and literature) before I got sidetracked by robots. Read on.... ... . The cottage is continually contrasted with a range of other, larger houses throughout the story used [more...]
Date: 2008-12-07 10:36:00
Sampler Houses
I noticed when I was shooting Christmas pictures last week how many houses in Fredericksburg would serve as perfect models for sampler houses ... like the house in "Meeting House Hill" (Carriage House Samplings). There's an interesting aspect to this sampler: some (the grass, the sea and larger items) is charted over 2, and some (the houses, [more...]
Date: 2008-12-28 18:42:00
Fall Carriage Rides through Colorful Charleston
Tour du Jour Selected Travel Post and Press Releases from our Tour and Attraction members. Here at Old South Carriage Co ... frisky - and so will you! Our one hour carriage tour covers about 25 blocks of the historic district. We operate from 9am until 5pm every day of the week. One each tour you will see houses, gardens [more...]
Date: 2008-09-24 22:37:44
Horses
It seems so incongruous to see horses in the middle of a big city. Where did they eat? Where did they poop? Where did they stay at night? [There were hundreds of livery stables and carriage houses in New York. Many were multi-story stables with elevator hoists. The horses went on the street, and the Department of Sanitation cleaned [more...]
Date: 2008-09-11 08:06:51
Keeping Warm in the Regency Era, Part One
Brrr. The coldest days of winter are upon us, prompting me to wonder: “How did people in days of yore keep warm?”Today we can turn up the heat with the merest flick of a switch, but during the 18th and 19th centuries people had to make do in draughty and leaky houses with their high ceilings, ill-fitting windows, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 02:31:00
The Saturday Strangeness
63. The Horses Of Death I've often been intrigued by reports of phantom animals, especially horses when they are seen to be leading a carriage through some misty backroad ... drawn by nothing, or spectral horses drawing an invisible carriage? It seems not. The huge gates [more...]
Date: 2008-07-26 15:13:54
Los Angeles in 1891
There were 55,000 people living here then, according to the Los Angeles Times of December 4, 1891. Here are some quotes which surprised me:[ ... . Much of the fruit consumed in Los Angeles comes from this section. There are no grand houses ... . Along the slopes of its foothills are dotted here and there a few houses, the precursors [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 23:29:00
The narrowest house in Greenwich Village
Measuring only nine and a half feet wide, this circa-1873 stepped-gable home at 751/2 Bedford Street was at various times a carriage house, ... Street in the 1920s sure looks a little like a hick country road.Tags: 751/2 Bedford Street, Carriage Houses in the Village, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Narrowest House in Greenwich Village [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 05:45:20
What Is Down On The Street? [Announcements]
Those of you who have been Jalopnik regulars for a while most likely have a pretty solid grasp of the concept behind the Down On The Street series, but what about newcomers to the site? We don't want DOTS to feel like some sort of in-crowd-only deal, so here's the Down On The Street FAQ: Q: What is a Down On The Street car? [more...]
Date: 2008-07-06 15:00:00
Oil is Evil, Get a Horse
Oil is Evil, Get a Horse by Raymond S. Kraft (posted with permission of the author) Nevada Senator Harry Reid gave a June 30 interview, now famous on YouTube, in which he somberly intones, "Coal makes us sick. Oil makes us sick. And this global warming is ruining our country. It's ruining the world [more...]
Date: 2008-07-07 15:14:11
Poor bastard. What a life.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/dai-llewellyn-the-ultimate-playboy-1366717.html Dai Llewellyn: The ultimate playboy His death brings to an end a life devoted to the shameless pursuit of pleasure. John Walsh raises a glass Thursday, 15 January 2009 If there was a visual dictionary in which mugshots of famous people took the [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 00:45:18
Fable 2 Cheats Tips Hints And Game Codes - Xbox 360
Fable 2 and XBox 360 bring you the anticipated sequel to the popular original that sold more than 3 million copies ... with an unpatched game. When you reach Oakfield and have at least 5,000 gold, buy the very first house you see once you enter the zone. It should have a wood chopping job nearby. Once you buy and own this house [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 17:36:27
Friday Is Someday
So I’m walking down this street in west London – No, of course not right now. Right now I’m sitting in my office typing this. I’m just using the present continuous for vivid narrative effect. Look: I’m walking down this street in – What do you mean, am I sure? [more...]
Date: 2008-07-11 16:44:31
A Royal Crush at the Palace
London grew by leaps and bounds during the 18th century, becoming the largest city in Europe with a population of over one million people ... an hour for a carriage to queue up before it reached the front door and could disgorge its passengers [more...]
Date: 2009-01-03 16:12:09
A ruined house and what it can do for you.
Today, 5th December, sees the release, or rather the re-release, of my first published book, "Yorkshire." I've rewritten it a fair bit, taking out extraneous characters and intensifying the romance. The book means a lot to me, and not just because it was the first one I had published [more...]
Date: 2008-12-05 19:00:57
THE SIEGE OF CHITRAL
For more than a month, a small British garrison in a crude, decaying fort on India’s Northwest Frontier endured a grueling siege by hostile Chitrali tribesmen, while a relief force fought its way to the defenders’ rescue. By Peter Holt Nizam-ul-Mulk, the mehtar (ruler) [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 03:21:03
THE SIEGE OF CHITRAL
For more than a month, a small British garrison in a crude, decaying fort on India's Northwest Frontier endured a grueling siege by hostile Chitrali tribesmen, while a relief force fought its way to the defenders' rescue. By Peter HoltNizam-ul-Mulk, the mehtar (ruler) [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 03:24:00
What happens in Sale…
Apparently doesn’t stay there. The following are excerpts from the email I wrote to Carmaine about it, because like hell I’m writing it all again: ... s like a quiet suburb kind of place, because they have the houses and there’s a town center where [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 00:27:40
The Fabulous Flea
The Fabulous Flea: French antiques on Bammel Lane in Houston Everyone loves their home, that goes without saying. Your home is a reflection of who you are, what your style is, what colors you like, what kind of furniture you are drawn to. Your home is your refuge, your safe place, [more...]
Date: 2008-09-26 09:58:00
Rome Areas and Neighbourhoods - Article Information
by Sara Dudleymore Your trip to Italy should be a memorable one and therefore must be programmed carefully ... you can go for a romantic or scenic ride in a carriage pulled by a horse around Rome. 3)THE PANTHEON: built [more...]
Date: 2009-01-18 14:32:47
Engadget HD Podcast 090 - 06.26.2008
Engadget HD Podcast 090 - 06.26.2008 by Trent Wolbe, posted Jun 26th 2008 at 11:00AM Although the show is a little late this week, we have plenty to go over. For starters, we once again enjoy laughing at Toshiba and Kaleidescape for trying to tell us to stop trusting our eyes and start trusting them instead [more...]
Date: 2008-06-26 16:00:00
predictii Deloitte
Un rezumat al documentului pe care il puteti downloada gratuit de pe site-ul Deloitte * a continued economic downturn during 2009 may buffet the fortunes of smart phones. While sales growth for all mobile phones may decline to around 4 percent, smart phone growth could fall by more than 15 percentage points, to under 20 percent4 [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 13:53:32
Christmas 1814
Since today is a special day, I thought you might like to read how some of my characters spend Christmas ... and cloudless and filled with stars. Behind the village houses, snow-shrouded fir trees stood sentinel [more...]
Date: 2008-12-24 23:02:00
Detroit Auto Show 2009 Preview: 2010 Chevrolet Equinox debuts with direct injection
Now that General Motors will be getting a cash infusion to stay in business at least through January, ... to the one in the larger Traverse. As expected of any starting anew mould these days, the full array of USB audio [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 15:34:45
The Shaykh and the Prostitute
Did you hear of the story of the Shaykh from Azhar and the prostitute? No. Well, there you go, as was narrated by Shaykh Ali Tantawi [ ... of the parks next to the Nile. So one day, the Shaykh went out and stopped a carriage (as cars were ... the view and relax. The driver of the carriage, however, was a wicked person, and took the Shaykh [more...]
Date: 2008-12-04 15:32:15
Obama Makes 15 References to ‘Pie’ in 100 Seconds
Obama Makes 15 References to ‘Pie’ in 100 Seconds 10-13-2008 1:54 pm - Chris Barrett/Powerhouse Pictures Dateline: West Philadelphia, PA Powerhouse Pictures: "Barack Obama spoke to thousands of people today in West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania about the current status of the economic turmoil happening across the world and pie.. [more...]
Date: 2008-10-13 17:54:51
Flint pours federal money into rehabbing Carriage Town homes for sale while many residents struggle to own their own place
Flint pours federal money into rehabbing Carriage Town homes for sale while many residents struggle to own their own place by Joe Lawlor | The Flint ... $450,000 in federal money to renovate just five houses near downtown at a time when many Flint residents need help buying homes or making their house payments. Two century-old, vacant houses in or [more...]
Date: 2008-06-21 21:23:36
The Art of Money Getting, or Golden Rules for Making Money #1
The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money was originally published in 1880 by P. T. Barnum. Phineas Taylor Barnum was an American showman remembered for founding the circus that became the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Part 1 is below. The twenty other parts will be published daily [more...]
Date: 2008-09-23 18:38:18
Road Trip Day Four and a bit of Day Three
There are 2 Comments for this post. Day Three Extra Bits I was so tired last night that I couldn't be bother writing everything, ... Jeans - the VIC had some old houses and a store that was the bottle shop, general store, post office [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 11:25:10
Top 83 Tweets of 2008
I’m sure that, fairly soon, as Twitter, the microblogging service, grows and becomes more widely used and recognised, ... I’ve got to go on a carriage ride through Highland Park tonight with 4 kids and 3 lawyers [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 12:54:58
Somewhat Recent Script Reviews
Hey guys,Below are highlights of sorta recent TriggerStreet reviews of mine.Hope you enjoy them ... was worse than the monster, and used the monster's access to houses to play pranks on his friends [more...]
Date: 2008-12-26 05:00:00
Rome Areas and Neighbourhoods - Article Information
by Sara Dudleymore If you want to live a memorable trip to Rome you must program it carefully ... around Rome in a carriage pulled by a horse. 3)THE PANTHEON: by definition the “Temple of all the gods” [more...]
Date: 2009-01-18 14:33:38
A Girl & Her Collections = Escapes to Colorful Places
You don't always need a plane or a train, a hot air balloon, or a carriage to transport you... You don't necessarily need to go through airport shenanigans, or passport hooplas... Sometimes [more...]
Date: 2008-07-15 15:21:00
The Most Freak and Amazing Travel Destination
Kokopelli’s Cave - Farmington, New Mexico, U.S.A.Wilderness cave dwelling, ... house set 13 metres above a Swedish public park, with rope ladder access only. The Woodpecker hotel [more...]
Date: 2008-12-12 14:00:00
Smyrna Home for Sale. House for Sale in Smyrna, Georgia 30080 (USD 890,000)
Smyrna home for sale, Georgia, 30080. Absolutely stunning 4,300 square foot Custom European Style 6 bedroom/4.5 bath home ... Comet trail. Brick & rock exterior, exposed pea gravel circular driveway, real wood carriage [more...]
Date: 2008-12-08 03:39:55
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