Railway arches, Thai restaurants, swimming pools, vintage clothes shops – our irregular Birmingham club event, Below, throws parties in the strangest of locations.
Mirthful types should check out a shop called Irregular Choice (276 Lafayette Street), where the footwear is festooned with ruffles, ribbons, buttons, fake jewels, paper flowers, plastic strawberries, vinyl-covered silk screens of big-eyed dolls, and glitter.
The Pasaji also contains a number of fantastic record shops with very irregular opening hours.
Environmental factors are influenced (this involves, for example, distraction using sounds or irregular floors), attributes are used (for example, a shopping bag is used during walking, or something is picked up from the floor), and interaction between participants is encouraged to distract the participants from their tasks.
The more established antiques shops around the Plazuela keep somewhat irregular hours, but can be counted on to be open on weekend afternoons.
From the housewives who cart home their groceries by bicycle, to the tiny shops and simple homes, Sumida Ward's irregular grid of narrow, gently bending streets appears at first glance to have gone unchanged for many decades.
The most charming street is Borgo Pio, an ostensibly pedestrian street (though cars do have a habit of sneaking through) lined with irregular buildings in varying states of repair, small shops, restaurants and the odd hotel.
In general men have lower intrapersonal variability than women which would mean for women either more flexibility or more irregular constraints (e.g. linked with maintenance, childcare, shopping).
