Hints and tips:
...The deftly deployed minutiae are often class signifiers: a world is contained in Phyllis’s dressing table, with its “cut-glass toiletry set and her bottles of L’Air du Temps and witch hazel and cleansing...
...Particularly provocative is “Respirare L’ombra” (“To Breathe Shadow”, 2008)....
...Companies that have pulled out include Harrods department store, The Telegraph newspaper and the cosmetics brand L’Occitane....
...In 1935 Kelly and his wife, Hazel, established The Zeroll Company in their garage and the scoop was produced by Alcoa (the Aluminium Company of America)....
...Craftsman Sebastian Cox works with hardwoods such as coppiced hazel to create the Hewn stool and the Crown candelabra....
...In a restaurant in Provence, France called L’Oustau de Baumanière. What profession would you really not like to try? Cleaning portable loos at events. Are you worth your pay?...
...The effect on the market was immediate: that June, Christie’s sold a Musketeer work, “L’Homme à l’épée”, for £5.8m, more than double what the same painting had fetched four years earlier....
...His culinary principles, based on seasonality, were to guide L’Escargot....
...“It was 2001,” he says, “and we had a huge L-shaped sofa but we moved into a Victorian terrace house....
...The council’s best hope is to persuade Hazel Blears, communities secretary, not to call an inquiry....
...A wet shave or rasage à l’ancienne from this maître barbier costs €25....
...A £20 outlay on a seedling oak or hazel inoculated with Burgundy truffle spores (pictured right) may produce truffles in four to six years, according to Mike Collison of Trees to Grow....
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