Day: September 19, 2025

Marylebone, a district so often accused of being “too elegant for its own good,” has now added another feather to its Best Place to Live in London cap: the recently established Marylebone Society for the Philosophical Contemplation of Timepieces (MSPCT). Their aim is deceptively simple: to sit in front of clocks, preferably ornate ones, and…

By Our Marylebone Correspondent, Karen Seasons A Marylebone resident, Drusilla Downs of Weymouth Street, has announced that she has invented the world’s first silent tea kettle. Unfortunately for her, neighbours insist that it is the loudest thing they have ever heard. According to Mrs Downs, the kettle uses “quantum steam dispersion” to eliminate the shrill…