Sugar Babies From Pinner, Greater London

Sugar babies are women who provide intimate relationships or simple companionships to men in exchange for monetary favors or gifts. It is a mutually beneficial arrangement that can work for both those who need companionship and those who desire nice things or money. It is a type of relationship, not a business transaction, unlike other methods of garnering companionship in exchange for money. Sugar babies are not stereotypical "gold diggers." They come in all shapes and sizes and can be any type of woman in Pinner, Greater London.

A sugar baby may be a college student who is paying her way through college, has some spare time to commit to a sugar baby/sugar daddy relationship and enjoys nice things. She may be intelligent, self-sufficient and classy. She may also be the opposite. The thing to remember is that sugar daddies are looking for different things. Therefore, sugar babies can be any combination of those things.

Sugar babies can also be independently successful women. They may have money of their own, spend time traveling as an executive for a big company, be a business owner or be perpetrator of any number of successful business endeavors. This type of sugar baby may find excitement in this sort of relationship. She may not need anything monetary or nice gifts from her partner. She may just enjoy having a man spend money on her, despite having plenty of money of her own. Many men find success attractive in a woman. Therefore, certain sugar daddies may have exactly this type of woman in mind when they seek to initiate a relationship with a sugar baby.

Monetary success and intelligence or lack thereof are not the only things in which sugar babies differ. A sugar baby's appearance is another area that may differ in Pinner, Greater London due to cultural expectations or simply differ by personal preference. One sugar daddy may like a classic trophy girlfriend. He may want her to be young and very attentive to her looks on a superficial level. Another sugar daddy may not care how his sugar baby dresses but wants her to be athletic. Yet another sugar daddy may not care about looks at all and simply wants a woman who is entertaining.

When one envisions a sugar baby, the image of a young woman typically comes to mind. This is not always the case. Sugar babies may be older women because older and younger sugar daddies alike may prefer older women. Older women may also seek a life of relative luxury in their later years. It is a good way to have fun, receive gifts and take a break from the hustle of life.

The diversity in sugar babies also applies to ethnicity and weight. There is no set standard for any of these things when it comes to sugar babies. Any woman can strive to be a sugar baby and find the right sugar daddy for her. She can be tattooed and pierced or girl next door sweet. She can be funny or serious. She can be a lover of the arts or a computer geek. In short, sugar baby is as diverse a word as the word woman.

Climate

Pinner's geographical position on the far western side of North West London makes it the furthest London suburb from any UK coastline. Hence the lower prevalence of moderating maritime influences make Pinner noticably warmer in the spring and the summer compared to the rest of the capital [1]. Pinner's western position within London means it is slightly closer to the Atlantic warm water gulfstream current, meaning that on some winter nights the suburb suffers less heat loss than other suburbs to the north and east of London [2].

Description

Coordinates: 51°35′36″N 0°23′22″W / 51.5932°N 0.3894°W / 51.5932; -0.3894 Pinner is a suburb in the London Borough of Harrow in Greater London, England, 12.5 miles (20.1 km) north-west of Charing Cross. The area was in the county of Middlesex until 1965, when it was absorbed by the London Government Act 1963 into Greater London. The nearest London Underground station is Pinner on the Metropolitan Line.  The nearest London Overground station is Hatch End.

Filmography

The BBC sitcom One Foot in the Grave, although filmed elsewhere, was set in Pinner,[26] as was the sitcom May to December, which filmed its exterior shots in the High Street.[citation needed] Location shots in the sitcom My Hero were filmed near the flats in Capel Gardens.[citation needed] During the 1990's the childrens TV series of Aquila was filmed in and around Pinner, particularly at the local Cannon Lane School. It is also featured in the Inbetweeners, a TV Sitcom.[citation needed]

Governance

Pinner has four tiers of government: Harrow Council ("local") and the London Assembly ("regional"), the United Kingdom parliament ("national"), and the European Parliament ("European"). Harrow Council has been governed since 2006 by the Conservatives, led by David Ashton. The mayor – a ceremonial post which rotates annually – is John Nickolay (Conservative). Pinner is represented by two wards, Pinner and Pinner South, each of which currently returns three Conservative councillors. Pinner forms the north-west corner of the Brent and Harrow constituency in the London Assembly, which has been represented since 2008 by Navin Shah (Labour), and the Harrow West constituency in the United Kingdom parliament, represented since 1995 by Gareth Thomas (Labour). Following a Boundary Commission review, it will form part of a new parliamentary constituency, Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner, at the next general election.[8] Pinner lies within the London European Parliament constituency, which elects nine MEPs by proportional representation – currently three Conservative, three Labour, one Liberal Democrat, one Green and one UKIP member.[9]

History

Pinner was originally a hamlet, first recorded in 1231 as Pinnora,[2] although the already archaic -ora (meaning 'hill') suggests its origins lie no later than c.900.[3] The oldest part of the village lies around the fourteenth-century parish church of St John the Baptist,[4] at the junction of the present-day Paines Lane, High Street and Church Lane. The earliest surviving private dwelling, East End Farm Cottage, dates from the late fifteenth-century.[5] Pinner has had an annual street fair since 1336, when it was granted by Royal Charter by Edward III;[6] it remains popular today, being the last of its kind in Middlesex, and featured in Sir John Betjeman's BBC TV documentary Metro-land (1973). The village expanded rapidly between 1923 and 1939, when a series of garden estates – encouraged by the Metropolitan Railway – grew around its historic core,[7] and at this time assumed much of its present-day suburban character.

Notable people

A number of notable literary figures have an association with Pinner. The poet laureate Henry James Pye retired to East End House at the end of his career in 1811,[2] the novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton wrote Eugene Aram at Pinner Wood House in 1832,[10] and Samuel and Isabella Beeton lived on the Woodridings estate between 1856 and 1862, during which Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management was published.[11] The novelist Ivy Compton-Burnett was born in the village in 1884,[12] and the playwright W. S. Gilbert, although he did not live in Pinner, was a magistrate there from 1893 onwards.[13] Twentieth-century figures include the cartoonist William Heath Robinson, who lived in Moss Lane between 1913 and 1918,[14] and now has a museum dedicated to him at West House in Pinner Memorial Park, and the current children's laureate Michael Rosen, who was born in Pinner in 1946, and lived there until 1962.[15] Figures in the world of entertainment associated with Pinner include the musicians Sir Elton John and Simon LeBon, who both grew up there and attended the local County Grammar School before moving away,[16][17] actor David Suchet and comedian Ronnie Barker, both one-time owners of 17th-century Elmdene in Church Lane,[18] actress Jane March, who grew up there before moving to the United States,[19] actress Molly Weir, who lived there until her death in 2004,[20] and broadcaster Bob Holness, who still lives there.[21] The Monster Raving Loony Party leader Screaming Lord Sutch, who lived in nearby South Harrow, is buried in Pinner New Cemetery.[22] Other notable figures include Horatia Nelson, the illegitimate daughter of Lord Nelson and Lady Emma Hamilton, who lived there from 1860 until her death in 1881,[11] the astronomer Sir Patrick Moore, born there in 1923,[23] the documentary film-maker Jo Durden-Smith, born there in 1941,[24] and the Iraq hostage Norman Kember, a long-time resident of the town.[25] Kate Nash is also a recent resident.

References

* Patricia A. Clarke, A History of Pinner, Phillimore, 2004 ISBN 1-86077-287-0

Transport

Pinner is served by London Underground's Metropolitan Line, and by nine London Buses bus routes: 84 (towards Northwood and Canary Wharf), 183 (towards Golders Green), 239 (towards Uxbridge and Finchley), 278 (towards Harrow Weald and Ealing Broadway), 361 (towards High Barnet and Ickenham), H11 (towards Harrow and Mount Vernon Hospital), H12 (towards South Harrow and Stanmore), H13 (towards Ruislip Lido and St Vincent's Hospital), and H14 (towards Northwick Park Hospital).