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Nice Leathers

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How come my workmen never look this hot

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Tell the truth, do you turn yourself on?

Dumb Down, Muscle Up, Show Off

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don't lie to yourself, jockboy

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Want him.

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source: cottagecore magazine

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Wren

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A House with a View

“The situation was so glorious, the house so commonplace, not to say impertinent. Other houses in the neighborhood had been built by expensive architects... while Windy Corner seemed as inevitable as an ugliness of Nature’s own creation."

So goes Forster's wonderful description of Windy Corner, the home of Lucy Honeychurch in his novel 'A Room with a View' published in 1908.

The images in todays post show the charming (and not in the least commonplace) location chosen for Windy Corner in the Merchant Ivory film of 1986. For my mind this is one of the chief selling points of the film and the thought of long lazy afternoons playing tennis here are the stuff of many a daydream.

The actual location is the Grade II listed 'Foxwold' house in Brasted, Kent which was built in 1883 and is described in the English Heritage listing as an 'Arts and Crafts style asymmetrical building built of brick in Flemish bond with some sandstone window dressings'.

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Looking toward the entrance of Stormont Estates, from the steps of the Northern Ireland Parliament Building (see two posts prior for what that looks like), down Prince of Wales Avenue. The statue in the middle is that of Edward, Lord Carson, an Irish Unionist Politician, remembered for his role in trying to maintain Ireland as a whole in union with Great Britain.