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...Why The top floor has a terrace with a wood-burning fireplace and an outdoor terrace off the kitchen has a built-in gas barbecue....
...But during a recent restoration curators tracked down appropriate antiques — bookcases, desk, a daybed and a wood-fired oven for the kitchen....
...Odey was known for another predilection: hiring “earls and girls”....
...She orders a cup of Earl Grey tea with a dash of lemon. Not everyone is a fan of this bergamot-flavoured beverage but she adores it....
...The earl simply popped into his head while, yes, walking alone. “I thought, ‘Ah, now he’s good.’ So I kept him talking.”...
...Aston has her own version of the Earl of Dunmore’s make-do plum pudding....
...A gift from her husband James Wemyss (the 12th Earl of Wemyss and 9th Earl of March, and the reason Feilding is a countess), it dates from “thousands of years ago” and is a symbol of their shared fascination...
...News round-up US authorities sue to block $3.8bn JetBlue-Spirit airline deal (FT) Apollo’s fourth takeover offer ‘continues to undervalue’ Wood Group (FT) Spain seeks right to stop Ferrovial from moving...
...The route also passes close to Braemar Castle, which was constructed in 1628 by John Erskine, Earl of Mar, as a hunting lodge....
...Here too, or hereabout, was where the poet John Dryden was almost murdered by rogues hired by the Earl of Rochester in 1679....
...The auctioneer’s Louisa Earl says that attendance has grown steadily since January, when auctions resumed in person following UK lockdowns. Many are locals, some newly arrived....
...Matthew Earl, managing partner of hedge fund ShadowFall, has been one of Future’s most outspoken critics....
...I have just reread the chapter “Experiment in Republicanism” in Gordon Wood’s Empire of Liberty....
...She’d been working as Earl Studt’s secretary; he was a deacon at the church. Two teens discovered Mary’s body in a decrepit farmhouse near a cornfield....
...Set in north Wales and shot in an unobtrusive mock-doc style, it stars David Earl as Brian, an eccentric inventor of useless objects, the latest being a robot made from a washing machine and some pieces...
...As dusk approaches, we walk back through the mature woods to the Cromwell Arms, a few hundred yards away....
...Marshall Wood, a successful 19th century sculptor, once lived with his family at No. 120....
...Today’s US has left Woods behind....
...Baroness Meta Ramsay orders a cup of Earl Grey tea and urges me to try a scone....
...“We had to create habitats, so we picked up the clay and began to weave the willow and carve the wood. Craftspeople have been working very closely with nature right from the word go.”...
...We wanted to create a Maybach adventure and take it out into the woods. It looks like a capable off-road vehicle, but different to what you have seen....
...“To us, this meant bringing dignity through the design of the space,” which is St Cuthbert’s church hall in Earl’s Court, London....
...These range from portraits by Joshua Reynolds and Peter Lely (whose paintings you’ll also encounter at Petworth House, former seat of JMW Turner’s patron the Earl of Egremont, the gates to which are a five-minute...
...From here, turn left off the A121 at Forest Road until you reach Earl’s Path, which climbs into the heart of Epping Forest....
...Like all the best ryes, Gospel’s signature Straight Rye Whiskey crackles with atmosphere: polished wood and dusty books, toothsome rye bread, dried figs and sweet, golden sultanas....
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