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...New rooms with a view in Florence Betty Soldi and Matteo Perduca are local heroes in their hometown....
...Wearing a dress in Labour’s ruby red, the shadow chancellor joins me at a circular table amid the art deco glamour of Bettys’ subterranean Spindler Room, which is adorned with numerous stained-wood “marquetry...
...Betty Wood has discovered closer ties to her Northumberland heritage through a recent turn to weaving – a prompt for her father to share stories of his own grandmother’s rug-making....
...We live in a crumbling old cottage in the middle of the woods, and we’re slowly chipping away at it. We don’t have heating yet....
...When evenings might involve a black-tie dinner or a fireside feast in the woods, axe-throwing like you’re the fintech answer to Asterix is the easy part. How do you pack for all these events?...
...There were other nicknames like Dirty Debbie, Sweaty Betty . . . some of them not repeatable. You had to be thick-skinned and you had to have a sense of humour.”...
...In the master bedroom, panelled in wood that recalls the elegant interiors of Spitalfields houses erected by French Huguenot builders, one’s gaze is immediately drawn to another of her designs: a bedhead...
...From €550, lungarnocollection.com; or AdAstra, Betty Soldi and Matteo Perduca’s jewelbox B&B, overlooking the city’s largest private garden....
...Betty, my eight-month-old, waits for no man, so our holiday started inauspiciously with sweaty sandwiches in a Sainsbury’s car park....
...I love the elongated and pure lines of the shelves and the black high-gloss wood....
...Entering the shadows of the walled Holy Wood — known as The Thebaid — feels like walking into the pages of a fairy tale....
...One of the great pioneers of Irish gastronomy, she works only with wild fish, and her salmon, cold-smoked over beech wood, has won a host of awards....
...It is set across three different time periods, all centred on the house near the shore overlooking the Bass Rock, and in the vastness of the dark woods nearby....
...First up is “Betty”, named after Betty Davis, the unbiddable funk auteur who preferred to retire from music in 1979 than conform to industry expectations of how she should sound....
...Wouk’s Orthodox Judaism in an increasingly secular America infused Marjorie Morningstar, which was published in 1955 and also turned into a film starring Natalie Wood and Gene Kelly....
...It looked like my grandfather’s restaurant was playing the latest Betty Grable movie every day: the lines went around the block.”...
...Reader Rosie Saffell recommends free yoga classes put on by sportswear retailers Lululemon and Sweaty Betty inside their shops....
...The 20 examples of “beautiful and brutal wood” in Michael Evans’s show of war-clubs from the South Seas also had a role in ceremony and dance....
...It is called Betty, it lives in a wood in Norfolk and it could hold the answer to the ash dieback disease ravaging one of the UK’s best-known trees....
...The recent discovery of a healthy tree named Betty in a dieback-ravaged Norfolk wood is raising hopes that the battle isn’t lost completely....
...Pheasant wrap, Brussels sprout wrap and Pudding wrap, by Nancy & Betty, £1.90 per sheet. scp.co.uk 7. Fortnum & Mason gold teapot, £210. fortnumandmason.com 8....
...In the UK, the emphasis has been on education, working with schools in partnership with the environmental charity Groundwork, creating community woods across Yorkshire, and — with the Royal Horticultural...
...In his heyday, everyone knew Wright’s name, just as they knew the brand name Betty Crocker....
...At the other side of the bakery, a batch of freshly baked loaves emerges, crackling and chuntering, from a massive wood-fired oven....
...Across the room stands a blackened sculpture by Scottish artist David Mach of cartoon character Betty Boop. Made of matchsticks, it went up in flames....
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