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...Jean Seberg’s boy cut for Joan of Arc, that nuanced “Deneuve” blonde, and Françoise Hardy’s fringe....
...Alice Norman, formerly head chef at Mayfair’s Emilia, has also set up in her native Suffolk. She got in touch with Maple Farm’s William Kendall, who, by chance, was setting up a small kitchen....
...For shoes, Pierre Hardy’s boutique is worth a visit....
...Founder Jason Gathorne-Hardy also works with artisans to create bespoke furniture year-round including live-edge, single-plank dining tables made from locally felled air-dried oak, ash and cedar....
...Founded in 2021, Floks sources from the hardy Cheviot breed, farmed since the 1400s in the Scottish borders. As it turns out, it has a lustrous white wool that’s quite lovely to laze under....
...Along with the pine and Chinese plum tree, it is one of the “three friends of winter”, hardy plants that are symbols of resilience and noble character....
...Only about 40 per cent of the UK’s 37,500 pubs have enough outside space to allow them to reopen since restrictions were eased, resulting in packed terraces as hardy drinkers in ski jackets and woolly hats...
...Perhaps best to invest in company-wide thermal jackets and opt for hardy meetings outside instead. alice.hancock@ft.com...
...Two of her favourites are Doyenné du Comice — whose luscious, barrel-shaped fruit she calls the “pear of superlatives” — and Beurré Hardy, which she sometimes finds from suppliers in Kent, and which tastes...
...“I have no way of approaching these aesthetics, because it’s so different from my world,” says Hardy, adding: “Liya was at the centre of the question....
...He took on the first six episodes of the 12-part adaptation and Rooney’s unadorned prose (adapted for the screen by the novelist herself, alongside British writer Alice Birch and Irish writer Mark O’Rowe...
...Additional reporting by Gregory Meyer in Houston and Alice Woodhouse in Hong Kong...
...New technologies and their effects on how we live have long proved an inspiration for writers: whether it was Thomas Hardy and the industrial revolution, or Mary Shelley and electricity....
...There could hardly have been a greater contrast than Holst’s rarely played Egdon Heath, a pictorial landscape drawn from Thomas Hardy. The vista here is barren, the colours are muted....
...Additional reporting by Michael Hunter in London and Alice Woodhouse in Hong Kong For market updates and comment follow us on Twitter @FTMarkets...
...Howling winds and snowdrifts failed to deter hardy British consumers in March with sentiment turning more positive at the start of spring....
...Additional reporting by Hudson Lockett and Alice Woodhouse in Hong Kong; Michael Hunter in London For market updates and comment follow us on Twitter @FTMarkets...
...John Hardy, head of FX strategy at Saxo Bank, said the auctions would offer an important test of the “weak dollar” narrative....
...“They love fresh blood here,” laughs Alice Laing. After leaving a job in marketing in London four years ago, the Scot, 35, moved to the east coast of Tasmania to start a business harvesting sea salt....
...And the unillusioned Thomas Hardy saw the weather as nature’s indifference: the rain that lashes Thomasin Yeobright in The Return of the Native is just “prosy rain”....
...There’s a monument to the record low temperature on the edge of town and the mayor gives hardy tourists certificates to remember their visit....
...alice.fishburn@ft.com Illustration by Luis Grañena...
...Yet when Hassam turns to wild poppies on the coast of New Hampshire, he conjures their hardy brilliance in an unstructured flurry of cold reds, whites and greens while the sea and sky beyond pan out in bands...
...Alice Fishburn is deputy editor of FT Weekend Magazine. ‘The Cripple of Inishmaan’ runs from June 8 to August 31 at the Noël Coward Theatre www.michaelgrandagecompany.com...
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