I used to live close to Eel Pie Island, Twickenham (UK) famed as a 20thC. music venue, but also - apocryphally - a supplier of eel pies to 19thC. vacationers on the Thames.

Lovely place. The flats were so well built you couldn't hear your neighbours above, below or side-to-side.

most of the US (and the UK) factory-made 'mayo' also has sugar syrup in it.
Why?
[shrug] Because everything has to have sugar syrup in it.

Pepys was a young man with no family wealth trying to climb the greasy pole of Restoration politics with all the lusts and politics encouraged by the Court.
His notoriety is compounded by being one of the very few sources which provide an account of their hidden life.
And he's (mostly) honest.

When The Spastics Society changed their name to Scope, playgrounds moved with them and started calling other children 'Scopies'

All run by the same multi-million company that also leases out dodgy sweet-shops on Oxford Street and is trying to close the Prince Charles Cinema.

I'll just leave this here:
thecritic.co.uk/the-end-of-p...

Unsurprisingly, I'm not the first to ponder the question, see:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazin...

"They lose me right after the bunker scene..."

The humiliation always feels terrible.
They have the knack, you don't know the knack.

Lovely. And there was always an older tape-deck with varispeed in the corner that delayed the feed to the echo unit, because echoes aren't instant.
I read that Duane Eddy/Lee Hazelwood used a grain silo (Wikipedia says water storage unit) and that Ry Cooder used an oil-drum echo.

There's a train line in London unoffically called the Goblin - "Gospel Oak to Barking Line"

Shhh! Don't make yourself so common!

Ah, the Battleship and Rotunda buildings
More here: www.ahmm.co.uk/projects/off...

Great writing (as always) but that illustration is what grabbed me. Sadly no credit given on the FT web pages.

takeaway #3: many other bird species will opportunely lay eggs in neighbouring nests: moorhens, we're looking at you.

takeaway #2: ... and they spend most of the time hiding and watching other nests ready for the moment to lay, with the egg - so to speak - preloaded.

takeaway #1: female cuckoos have probably never seen their own eggs ...

For BaNES & Somerset, these are good.
Also have tithe maps with information on each plot (field name/property name, owner, lessee, etc)
www.somersetheritage.org.uk