Hints and tips:
...In his 1913 polemical essay “Ornament and Crime”, the architect Adolf Loos inveighed against decoration as wasteful, self-indulgent and imminently obsolete....
...The last speaker, UK government minister Margaret Hodge, exceeded her allotted time span by half an hour....
...It also contains precious things from my own childhood bedroom – the carved wooden angels above her cot and a picture by Margaret Tarrant....
...Back then, Britons stockpiled candles rather than loo rolls. Labour’s James Callaghan also tried freezing wages and property rents....
...Just be sure to do it in private (ie, the loo or a meeting room)....
...Overall, across the city, sale prices rose 2 per cent between 2017 and 2018, says Margaret Hogan of Gardner Realtors....
...Arthur Scargill, leader of the National Union of Mineworkers from 1982 to 2002, and scourge of Margaret Thatcher, resided here in a grace and favour flat during the 1980s strike....
...Some conclude the current issues in the market are the fault of Margaret Thatcher, who triggered the sale of council housing stock....
...To reinforce this, they are cheerfully rude and ensure that a trip to their unheated guest loo is evocative of a Siberian winter....
...They lived in a house with an outdoor loo and a tin bath: “I know it sounds a bit Monty Python . . ....
...Then he gestures to St Margaret’s church, detached but dependent on the abbey like a calf to its mother. It is injured, where a Perspex sheet covers part of a leaded window....
...People either put the kettle on or all “went to the loo at the same time”....
...His legs could no longer take his weight: trips to the bathroom began to involve me and my stepbrother manoeuvring him in and out of a wheelchair and, to his horror, on and off the loo....
...We part in the restaurant as he is heading off to the loo. I cycle away with my head full of the problems of humility and Christ and celibacy....
...Lombard once chaired a conference where the Barking MP over-ran her time allocation by 25 minutes, even though coffee-saturated delegates had gone two hours without a loo break....
...The store off the Graben is also conveniently located around the corner from the Loos Bar for post-shopping cocktails....
...The Humour pile in the downstairs loo is tottering a little but there is some spare space in my writing shed....
...The publicists stamped on it but it came out months later that it was Rebecca Loos.”...
...The group spends so much time arguing that they fall behind and there are not enough loo rolls left for their Parthenon model....
...That’s why there are curtains instead of doors and open-air loos and showers. The house is so light and we love seeing the shapes of the trees and reflections of birds crossing the transparent roof....
...That of Margaret Hodge, the Mrs Tiggywinkle-like minister for small business, is absent too. Nor were Tory shadows Alan Duncan and Mark Prisk nominated....
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