chocolate-box

How much: Offers around PS210,000 What's the deal: This house has a cutesy, chocolate-box feel from the front with pretty ivy trailing up the exterior walls.Once a weaver's cottage and workshop, built in 1840, it has charm by the bucketload.

It chimes with Eye's vision of a retirement spent swanning around some rural idyll, roses scattered around the door of a chocolate-box cottage.

The action takes place in the Balkans around 1885 and so the show has sumptuous period costumes and a chocolate-box set designed by Mark Bailey.

Despite the potentially chocolate-box Derbyshire setting, Steve Edge and Matt King (Peep Show's legendary Super Hans), who play uncles Fergie and Loz, do an excellent job of keeping the Starlings real enough so they don't sink into the comedy quicksand of cosiness.

THE Old rectory Cottage is a gorgeous chocolate-box thatched home in the quiet village of Tarrant Keyneston in Dorset.

A tiny medieval town just a few miles inland from the glorious Dorset coast, Beaminster may look typically English on the outside, but underneath its chocolate-box exterior beats a chic French heart.

"It's definitely not a tragic ending, but it's not chocolate-box happy either.

They live in a chocolate-box thatched cottage in Devon.

Tourists to Midland beauty spots were urged yesterday to look beyond their "chocolate-box" image and see the problems of poverty and deprivation beneath the surface.

Serafima Ryangina's dizzying Higher and Higher, in which a radiant pair of male and female workers climbs toward total electrification, had been criticized in 1934 for applying a "Michelangelesque power" to the "sickly sweetness of an old chocolate-box picture." In the 1950s, its ferociously bland joyousness was canonized.