mod cons

Her 200-year-old home has no running water, no central heating, no fridge, nor any of the other mod cons most people would consider essential.

It continued in the shadow of St Paul’s Cathedral, in a purpose-built, corporate building with all the mod cons.

Luckily, this hotel is just a few miles from her daughter Emma's home, where Susan is regularly welcomed for hot meals, company and access to mod cons.

Meanwhile Dr Robinson, who said the fort was "manned up until the late 1950s", said the building would be a bit "short on mod cons and a bit bracing" for anyone to live there.

As late as the 1970s, Hill’s grandparents lived in a subsidized rowhouse without “mod cons,” or modern conveniences, including indoor plumbing.