Hints and tips:
...Absent a takeover bid, shifting the company’s listing, as suggested by activist Butler Hall, would be an uphill struggle....
...Transfer Market Natalie Robyn is stepping down as chief executive of the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile, the governing body for Formula One and other motorsports, after just 18 months....
...It is a funny thing, telling people that you’re going to be having lunch with Bari Weiss. The first thing you get is a mixture of bewilderment and excitement. “Barry White?”...
...Consider a marble-topped table with serried ranks of mixer cans, bottles and glasses à la David Hicks, or a bar cart or butler’s tray, which takes up barely any room at all....
...There can’t be that much further to go before people start hiring butlers. “I’m just off to the high street. Does Madam want anything from L’Occitane?”...
...That’s F-L-I-C. For more information about your rights as a tenant, do check out the Generation Rent website. Jason Butler is on Instagram and Twitter. He’s @jbthewealthman. Timi is @mrmoneyjar....
...Captained by head butler Jean-Baptiste Crabit, an earnest blue-eyed Frenchman, the team offers much more than unparalleled room service to guests....
...If I weren’t doing what I do, I would be a butler. It would give me huge satisfaction to run a great house....
...Our butler, Rudolfo, unpacked our crumpled clothes then slid our luggage under the super-king-size bed....
...Or, until recently, Knightsbridge, where a tangle of steel L-beams poked out from behind a funereal black hoarding wrapped around an entire city block beside Harvey Nichols....
...Ed was sceptical: but mid-conversation a butler announced the arrival of Black. “Let Leon wait,” Epstein said....
...The butler was lazy. He just threw away the wooden cases, put the bottles on a shelf and never moved them, so the labels at the front were much more soiled than the ones at the back....
...As befits an ex-director of the London School of Economics, he demonstrated an encyclopedic knowledge of recessions, be they “U-shaped or L-shaped or, er, some other letter”....
...So I think what we’re doing is more important than ever,” said Simon Butler, director of Migrate Art....
...Santa Barbara County£44.40 james@tigervines.com Matthiasson, Matthiasson Vineyard Ribolla Gialla 2017 Napa Valley$45-$54 various US retailers REDS Mountain Tides Petite Sirah 2018 California$19.99 K & L£22.95...
...“Our job is in no sense to try and throw people out,” says Dave Butler, chief executive of the UK Apartment Association, an industry group. “Voids are the absolute last thing we want.”...
...The house has an L-shaped layout of 9,515sq ft, and is priced at $9.75m through Sotheby’s International Realty....
...And while there are a handful of five-star hotels — most notably Le Blizzard and Les Barmes de l’Ours — bigger players have stayed away, until now....
...Three years on lees and then a low 4g/l dosage. A tight, harmonious wine as emphatic as its maker. Good value direct from the UK importer....
...Residual sugar (just 4.5g/l) is negligible....
...Down the hill and a little way across the green plain, we found our serenity at L’Orto di Lucania, a 17th-century farm with kitchen and restaurant attached....
...The new big thing for French haute joaillerie is “l’appartement”, where brands offer an “at home” atmosphere to captivate clients, encouraging them to linger while they shop....
...When Melissa and Michael go to view a house in Crystal Palace, they are swayed by the “charming butler sink in the kitchen, the persuasive under floor heating”. Underfloor heating is persuasive!...
...V, U, or L? The nature of Covid-19 growth impact means that some elements – e.g., production resumption, inventory restocking, and travel normalisation – would lend a natural rebound to growth....
...Coates & Seely, La Perfide 2009 England £67.95 Lea & Sandeman So garlanded is this wine that L&S rations it to one per customer. Dense, confident and zesty....
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