Originally houses, many by Henry Holland, master builder and son-in-law of Capability Brown, it became progressively given over to God, shopping and modernism.
He would have felt a bit queasy at the thought of high-end "god shops" in bustling American cities where Hollywood stars and "titans of the corporate world" paid $400,000 for a deity without flinching.
Croissants, café au lait, the Louvre, Montmartre, long lunches, the Luxembourg gardens, the shops, my God, the shops, Notre Dame, that café in St-Germain, you know the one - what's it called?
Another meal in the cog of a $2.4 billion Thanksgiving dinner industry whose roots lie in the slaughter of indigenous people that today is being eclipsed by worship to the mighty god of shopping — right?
First, what item would be #1 on God's shopping list at Trader Joe's?
Except that Mr. Jalal doesn't quite believe in Allah; instead, he entertains the possibility of all gods, and shops around.
"We like sports, and I love the restaurants and Denver shopping because God knows you don't shop in Steamboat," said Tammy Scheer, who runs a hunting camp and raises horses with her husband, Grant.
Thank God for internet shopping.
In the title song, Mr. Davies pines, "God save little shops, china cups and virginity".
For as lacking in living-museum-heritage as it may be and as cold, grey and rainy as it often is, by God it has shopping.
