When you think about it, a little cottage with a white picket fence is the epitome of cosy, homy prosperity and orderliness. In fact, it's almost a cliché -- the shorthand proof-point of buttoned-down conformity and rigid domestic propriety. Yet pickets, derived from the French piquet (meaning 'pointed stick or board') have a grim military origin …
Isambard Kingdom Brunel -- what an engineer. This bloke didn't design his way into the history books with just one innovation, or even two -- he just kept coming up with bold new material: tunnels, steel ships, suspension bridges. All brilliantly conceived and executed with due consideration of function driving form and such. It would …
These are finials. Nice word, isn’t it? Finniiaallls. Before moving to Corner Cottage, I was vaguely aware of finials as something to do with the banisters on a staircase, but as with so many things from worms to weeds to utes, hadn’t ever been compelled to consider them in any particular detail. But this cottage, …
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