Music which is similar to the later ambient music of British musician and all-round genius Brian Eno.
"Are Enoesque fripperies all this derivative band capable of?"
A simple term which means the same as, but avoids having to say, "artists, photographers, sculptors, painters, designers, architects, crafts makers..." etc.
"Creatives can't afford to stay in that part of the city now that the developers are moving in and renovating the old properties."
British equivalent to the USA's "thrift store".
"The band's clothes look like they were
nicked from the local charity shop."
Small consumer digital camera, without many of the manual features of a digital SLR camera.
"I finally got a new digicam."
"I got a new digital SLR, so the old digicam has been handed down to the kids."
Servalan was a lead baddie in the UK
sci-fi TV series Blake's Seven. Used by British men of a certain age to refer to a particularly glamourous but cruel & haughty woman.
"Servilan!" (said to a companion, of an action by a glamourous woman that shows her to be heartless and aloof).
Weblog containing regular postings of the owner's recently taken creative photographs. Cat or pet pictures don't count.
"I just posted some new fab new snaps on my photoblog."
The liberal upper-middle-classes of urban England who flee the dubious delights of their own cities to buy property in fashionable rural regions abroad.
"The flitterati are going to have to choose a new destination now that the property bubble in rural France has burst."
by
Nupe
February 08, 2004
