Hints and tips:
...In February, I stayed at the new Hoxton, Shepherd’s Bush, its 237 rooms housed in a seven-storey newbuild overlooking Shepherd’s Bush Green....
...Photographer Bárbara Vidal has a thoughtful series on the landing above the stairs; geometric works by Manolo Ballesteros catch the eye. It adds up to an environment I was loath to leave....
...The social butterfly will make a beeline for the local pub in owner Barbara Timmins’ old neighbourhood of Soho, where he plans to hold court....
...“Hello, Barbara, yes, you’ll pick up in 20 mins?” said Tang on the phone. A few Chinese lanterns hung from the ceiling of the otherwise spartan room....
...A little later they came across a book about the British sculptor Barbara Hepworth whom they did not know but recognised as being in the orbit of Brancusi, an artist they revered....
...According to Google Maps, it takes 29 minutes to cover the 6.7 miles from my shack in Shepherd’s Bush to Isabel Ettedgui’s house in Petersham....
...“When Jeffrey Archer had his shepherd’s pie and champagne parties, he would tell guests to ‘turn left at the Matisse’ to get to the bathroom....
...Woolley, a teenage heartbreaker who carried a shepherd’s crook, was quite different from the anxiously competent Lubbock or the furiously promiscuous Skelton or the efficient Brownell....
...Christian Shepherd in Beijing 46....
...In Plato’s version of Gyges, the Lydian shepherd has a magic ring of invisibility which gives him the wherewithal to seduce the queen, kill the king and take over....
...We passed shepherds whose huge Carpathian shepherd dogs bounded over to greet us: three of these gentle giants can between them see off a hungry bear. We passed paddocks of horses....
...Veteran curator Barbara Haskell tracks a brief career crammed with turnarounds, dead-ends and the occasional masterpiece....
...Shy, unworldly, depressive, celibate, Jones exhibited a desperate empathy with “the common travails of all creation”, evident especially in tender, lucid drawings of animals such as “Nativity with Shepherds...
...With minimal resources — a few sashes, headdresses, shepherd’s staffs — the drama was effectively conveyed....
...But the scythes and ancient conical haystacks, the shepherds still living in mountain clearings for months on end, show how little impact those few decades of modernism had....
...The works are sensitively installed alongside Kettle’s Yard’s permanent ensemble — Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Alfred Wallis, Ben Nicholson, arrangements of pebbles and glass —...
...The Shepherd’s Life: A Tale of the Lake District, by James Rebanks, Allen Lane, RRP£16.99 Part shepherd’s calendar, part memoir, part encomium for fell farming, Rebank’s book follows the four seasons to...
...“Mike and Jim took a bold step 18 months ago when RIM purchased QNX to shepherd the transformation of the BlackBerry platform for the next decade,” Mr Heins said....
...Equus Silvania is run by Christoph Promberger, a wolf biologist, and his wife, Barbara, a specialist in lynx....
...The English Monster, by Lloyd Shepherd, Simon & Schuster, RRP£7.99 In London’s East End in 1811, two households were slaughtered....
...Shepherd’s Bush: a grey, malodorous, overpopulated district, the opposite of its name, in west London. The traveller not wise to the truth of this squints and mutters, “Where is it?”...
...Barbara Kingsolver’s first novel since Prodigal Summer, published in 2000, is broad in scope and ambition....
...We take a brief detour on the state of London football, and it turns out that we were both born and bred, and indeed saw our first game, in Shepherd’s Bush....
...There are also singing cooks, shepherds, urchins, dogs, villagers… Imagine 50 banshees in a jar, various of talent but uniform of volume, stirred by a searing sun and shaken by vivacious camerawork....
...“In the big picture, the deal is going to be much weaker than what we were hoping for,” said Koko Warner, a researcher at the UN University in Bonn who has helped shepherd the issue into the treaty....
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