Hints and tips:
...Keep an eye out for collaborations with local restaurants. toadbakery.com Shawesome and aimee_pluts Bread Addiction, Southsea The secret behind this bakery’s “excellent sourdough loaves” is simple: Bread...
...After his retirement, he focused on philanthropy and EL Rothschild, the family investment company, with his wife Lynn Forester de Rothschild, who survives him....
...Inside, there are fire pits and fountains, abundant plant life and undulating pathways that circumnavigate the trees rising from the amorphous floor. It’s a museum, but not as we know it....
...With architecture that blends the national romantic style with neoclassical flourishes – not least the 50-odd columns that frame the sculptures and fountains in the garden – this is Scandinavia’s ode to...
...Today, the carefully hand-cleaned rafters frame a wealth of plant life and statuary, which, together with a late 19th-century marble fountain, lend a lavish, palazzo feel....
...As Aimee Farrell discovers on a visit to the Lincolnshire manor in which the ceramicist lives with four of her children, the house was built in the Elizabethan era, but despite some 17th- and 18th-century...
...“The space is enormous and very grand, but it’s these very fine details — from cupboards to water fountains — that makes it feel so intimate.”...
...Opulent rooms, light-filled courtyard, murmuring fountain and multitudinous masterpieces are arrayed for your delectation....
...Anouk Aimée, Magali Noël and Yvonne Furneaux are among the beautiful women put through the furnace of Marcello’s languid lusts and predations of desire. But give Federico a break....
...Who cares that the Beverly Hills home, owned by the producer and actor Tyler Perry, sits in the 90210 zipcode, has eight bedrooms, a fountain and a pool around the back?...
...This year, Studiopepe takes over a former gold factory with “Les Arcanistes”, where visitors can explore their materials first-hand, have a tarot reading, drink water from the “fountain of knowledge” and...
...Stitch School, established by Aimee Betts and Melanie Bowles in 2017, is seeing an influx in younger people attending their workshops and community events....
...As well as revamping their stores, Fendi has also invested in numerous cultural endeavours, such as the restoration of the Trevi Fountain....
...His first job as an evacuee in Long Island, New York, during the second world war was working a soda fountain in a Westhampton drugstore....
...In Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk that unfortunately includes our patience....
...Nothing to see here… In further reading this week , I enjoyed Aimee Groth's recent article in Quartz about how the obsession with the "cult of the entrepreneur" has gone too far....
...Sally Turff, King’s Lynn, Norfolk, UK...
...I’ve also got Ben Fountain’s Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk and J.D. Salinger’s Nine Stories. Who would you most like to sit next to at a dinner party? Mick Jagger....
...In the latest great American novel set in sport, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain, reporters pester Norm Oglesby, fictional owner of the Dallas Cowboys football team, about his plans to move...
...Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, by Ben Fountain, Canongate, RRP£16.99, 307 pages Watching an American football game in 2004, Ben Fountain noticed a group of soldiers playing a bit part in an over-the-top...
...Montaigne’s Essays; The Scotch Metaphysics by George E Davie, and the new novel of a Texan writer I know, Ben Fountain [Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk]. What book changed your life?...
...Lynn Turner, the former chief accountant at the Securities and Exchange Commission, said that blaming the mark to market rules was like “blaming the thermometer for a fever”....
...As for Lynn Chadwick’s “Crouching Beast III”, a large, stainless-steel predator poised beside the Ring Pond, he is the very embodiment of aggression....
...Vera Lynn, the wartime singer, was a neighbour. When it comes to class, “I am deeply socially ambiguous”, he grins mischievously. The 1960s passed him by....
...Almost everyone stood to sway and sing along with contemporary music played by a live band, reading the words off three giant screens behind the fountain-enclosed altar....
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