Hints and tips:
...Last week an émigré Russian emailed me from Cyprus to ask a question about Cassandra in Greek mythology and where to find seeds of tomatoes with a flavour worth sowing and growing....
...While Loewe, Jacquemus and Schiaparelli lean into surrealist references, retailers such as Browns are using culinary art in their campaigns....
...The day before we were due to reach Cape Verde, a big brown bird, most likely a booby, began circling the boat in the afternoon....
...Then there was a long discussion with Cassandra over buying “two new coloured gowns for the summer”, one in “plain brown cambric muslin” and the other “a very pretty yellow and white cloud” (a fabric with...
...“This happens a lot,” Kathryn Allsopp laughs, gesturing between her brown-and-tan Loewe Surplus handbag and the cream version of the same bag slung across her sister Millie Allsopp’s shoulders....
...It could be the observation deck of a spaceship....
...Incoming chief executives have a penchant for clearing the decks. The same products tick boxes for private equity and more specialised trade buyers....
...The best seat for couples was at the corner edge of the upper deck, a table that jutted out over the restaurant like an opera box....
...Still cruising after the success of her acclaimed 2022 album, Natural Brown Prom Queen, Parks excitedly crawled and strutted about the stage, breaking into virtuosic flashes on her violin before cartoonishly...
...A few floors up you’ll find an enormous, fully stocked gym and a rooftop pool, cabana bar and sun deck, with plenty of seating and views of the mountains across the harbour....
...The Tupaiú headed upstream, chugging along placidly, a fresh breeze fanning its open-sided decks. Eddies and currents swirled in the depths below....
...(I can’t stretch to the truly bespoke — those by The Deck or a tailor such as Susannah Hall.)...
...Lugger begins “harassing” fishmongers to find “regal no. 3” oysters, his mother drives 30 minutes across the German border to source a special brown sourdough, and his sister travels an hour from her home...
...Men are covered in blue, grey and brown. All this subtle good taste gets a little boring. Madras is a way to break out — and it is a terrific summer fabric....
...At Oliver Brown, the Chelsea-based gentleman’s outfitter, founder Kristian Robson says the house has hired out approximately 7,000 sets of morning dress so far in 2023 — a 20 per cent increase on 2022 —...
...When you write out a thank you message for your co-worker’s contribution to a pitch deck or project, are you writing ‘thanks for the help!’ or are you naming the ways their help impacted you?”...
...Stripes, reminiscent of so many summery motifs — deck chairs, beach towels and country club awnings — will always be season appropriate....
...I can say he’s not tall (but not short), athletic (but not a rail), has brown hair and dark eyes. He laughs easily and is kind to waiters. His rise has been fuelled by the mystery of his identity....
.... £43.95, masterofmalt.com Orlebar Brown x Wham!...
...Jo EllisonIt’s like the deck shoe of old always had a real . . . I really didn’t like the deck shoe. Isabel BerwickWell, I think Rob’s cowboy adventures is going to be another podcast....
...Chailley often wore spectacles under his thick mop of brown hair and had a fondness for expensive suits and Berluti lace-ups....
...Why Built in 1877, the house has been completely renovated and features a large deck with views across the river to Canary Wharf....
...Opposite, hang three of the British artist Glenn Brown’s “Layered Portraits (after Rembrandt)” (2008), a nod to the fact that Geertje Dircks, a servant in Rembrandt’s household and later his lover, lived...
...This is Ponza, and in front of us we can see Scoglio del Parroco (“the priest’s rock”), an imposing natural arch of dark-brown rock with a shape so precise it looks man-made....
...Roubini certainly has form in predicting calamity and investors have learnt to ignore him at their cost (as he quips, he’s graduated from “being a Cassandra to a sage”)....
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