Twits

A club for great wits, or just sozzled old twits?

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Tales From The Colony Room: Soho’s Lost Bohemia Darren Coffield Unbound £25 There is something timeless about bars crammed with heavy drinkers. ‘They were talking drunk, and confidential drunk, and laughing drunk, and beautifully drunk, and leering drunk, and secretive drunk, and dignified drunk, and admittedly drunk, and fighting drunk, and even rolling drunk.’ This … Read more

Sweet shop that inspired Roald Dahl’s books including Matilda and The Twits is now an Airbnb

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Holidaymakers are in for a scrumdiddlyumptious treat as children’s author Roald Dahl’s boyhood sweet shop is now an Airbnb. Mrs Pratchett’s sweet shop was the inspiration behind his much-loved books including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Twits and Matilda. It is also thought to be the location where Dahl put a dead mouse in … Read more