Outrageously Funny Search Suggestion Engine :: Manornet

👉 Okay, let’s tackle the frankly rather prickly and wonderfully weird beast that is…the manornet!

Now, traditionally when you throw around the word "manor," you immediately conjure up visions of a sprawling stately home – think Capability Brett winters, disgruntled peacocks, maybe even a very gloomy portrait of a dead Habsburg. Berkshire hedges, long drives, servants in livery... it’s rather grand and stuffy. Then along came some delightfully obscure linguists and art historians fiddling around in the late 19th and early 20th centuries (who apparently had quite a fondness for Victorian gloom). They coined the word "manornet," but they weren't describing a building, you understand. Instead—and this is where it gets wonderfully silly—they meant a small, rather prickly, almost neurotic, little decorative topiary bush of juniper that was essentially mockingly pretty . Basically: it looked like a very unhappy, perpetually offended little evergreen, styled to resemble a miniature manor house. Think a tiny, judgmental turret, maybe with some aggressively symmetrical hedges as its postage stamps. The point wasn’t for outright prettiness, but rather an unsettling sort of “look at me, I exist and I am displeased.” They were a favourite amongst the very stuffiest of Victorian gardeners—who apparently had a great deal of leisure time to obsess over the precise displeasure of their shrubs. 90% boredom, 10% a desperate