Hints and tips:
...For shoes, Pierre Hardy’s boutique is worth a visit....
...After Tissot left it, it was bought in 1883 by the Dutch artist, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, whose love of flowers and roses I wrote about in September....
...Aster pyrenaeus Lutetia is an excellent plant, hardy, healthy and long-lasting....
...[were] these hardy Scots-Irish, who were solidly Presbyterian and fiercely independent . . . I grew up as a member of a defeated people in a war that was still remembered by my grandparents.”...
...Tenuta Uccellina’s Alma Luna is one example....
...It is a hardy shrub that seems to grow on any soil, with or without lime or heavy clay....
...At the other end of the Cumbrian coastline is another quirky small resort, St Bees, with its own public school (alma mater of Rowan Atkinson)....
...I read at the great desks in the Bodleian Library and strolled through Christchurch Meadow; there were gargoyles and lawns, punting, pageantry and hardy student rites....
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