Edwardian architecture

Yeah, which is weird, actually, because I went on holiday recently with my family to Broadstairs, and we rented an Airbnb-style place.

The rooms in this building, so I guess, well, I guess that was an Edwardian house, reference to a previous...

What's the difference?

The architecture's

different.

Because I said on

Instagram before that while you were visiting Rob's Edwardian flat, and you were like...

Excuse

Mm

... sort of approach in Melbourne and Sydney, just given the sort of Victorian and Edwardian architectural history here.

Yeah.

Was that sort of similar to what you had grown up with-

The British and colonial authority looked the other way because of racial thinking, seeing Cantonese as inherently inferior or just pure degeneracy.

To Edwardian and post-World War I...

In England, sex acts being represented in any form in the public space was frowned upon.

But to Hong Kong, there's a sort of cultural difference with there being reproductive sex, but also casual sex for fun and to not have a child.

He's going to give us a little wink.

And then we're going to head on into the Edwardian parlor where the consulting occultist waits for us to tell us all about the 17th century Bermuda-born Harvard-educated alchemist, George Starkey.

Yeah, George Starkey is born George Stark in Bermuda in 1628.

His father is a Scots Calvinist minister, and as we see, he does not lose some of the habits of that tribe.

An Edwardian mansion could be on its way to demolition in Christchurch unless someone is willing to take it off a local de-

Yeah.

And they talked a lot about the, um, uh, Edwardian stories that they've been adapting into comics.

I think Sophie said the, the first job of doing this adaptation was to find, like, you know, in, in a circus tent you've got the, the big poles.

They're called-

And this garden is that.

LAUGHTER but it is it's like I think I was in Japan once are you sure it was Japan or India I don't know just that fucking oriental place but can you build it like that and that maybe a bit of that and put that tree there and that plant and you end up with this it's Dubai this is Edwardian Dubai So I have a cracker of a guest for you, right? But before I bring the guest out, I usually read, you can hear me all right again.

I usually read a short story before every live podcast.

And as you know, I'm doing a play up in the Abbey Theatre at the

Instead of getting changed in your windows, you can paint them.

So this year I have had grey windows for 25 years and I live in a nice she-she neighbourhood with lots of Edwardian and Victorian houses and I painted it aubergine, the windows aubergine.

It sounds horrific, but I was like going, I can't do another grey window.

And then I looked around the corner and I noticed that some of the other neighbours had painted theirs a kind of a fudgy brown.