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...This green tweed has a wonderful texture that keeps your interest and keeps you warm. drakes.com J Nismes-Delclou armagnac, £230.50 for 500ml I love Armagnac in the winter....
...Indeed, those such as Daniel J Hinkley act as ad hoc conservationists roaming the world to identify, retrieve and cultivate plants that might otherwise become extinct (think of him as Indiana Jones and the...
...Here are five cutting candidates for beginners: fuchsias, half-hardy salvias, thyme, penstemons and lavenders....
...De Jager, J Parker’s and others now offer them, newish hybrids between nerines and the gawky amaryllis....
...Green J Jam from Worcestershire is showing more than 50 different varieties of those late summer staples, penstemons....
...J David Enriquez, head of private equity at the $251bn New York City Retirement Systems, has left the pension fund to join Rothschild & Co’s US private equity division, Five Arrows Capital Partners, as a...
...Daniel J Hinkley, “Windcliff: A Story of People, Plants and Gardens” (Timber Press)....
...As we emerged from the first pub on our tour of Kent, the Eight Bells in Dover, he cited a Thomas Hardy poem about the poet treading the same ancient path as when a child: “The Roman Road runs straight and...
...Viv Groskup takes the occasion of the opening of the new film about Laurel and Hardy, Stan and Ollie, to write about the curious dynamic of comedy duos and their widespread appeal....
...Even on the J&B list, the prices seem to me to be ridiculously low for the quality....
...The last music I downloaded was the album Personne d’Autre by Françoise Hardy....
...We got lost on the misty, twilit highlands and developed an admiration for the hardy bairns who tramped over them to the schoolhouse and back in all weathers....
...Books warn that it may not be fully hardy and that it may become invasive. With me it has behaved politely for the past four years, surviving one very cold start to a year....
...Mr Hardy denies misconduct in a public office — by disclosing information to the Sun and accepting remuneration for it. His wife Claire Hardy denies aiding and abetting commission of the offence....
...In Edinburgh’s Princes Street there is a bench with a brass plaque stating simply, “Remembering J.C.H. Who was often tired.” It’s a delightful moment....
...Great efforts went into selling these clothes to the public, with designers such as Hardy Amies and Digby Morton recruited to design prototype ranges....
...If it was the newest hardy orchid from Vietnam, everyone would be scrambling to buy it....
...Suresh J, chief executive of Arvind Lifestyle Brands, told beyondbrics he expects 40 per cent of Gap’s business to come from menswear, around 30 per cent from womenswear and another 30 per cent from its...
...“We have to be very careful how we use the drug,” says Wim Parys, J&J’s head of research and development for global public health. “If you give it alone, bacteria will be able to adapt....
...Japan has agreed to procure 42 F-35 jets, while China is developing a stealth fighter of its own, the Chengdu J-20....
...“Literary history would tell you to expect Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy and Mark Twain to be at the top of the list,” says Jockers....
...James Hardy, Asia-Pacific editor at IHS Jane’s Defence Weekly, says: “China’s military modernisation over the past decade and its more assertive posture, for example in the South China Sea since 2008, has...
...What if he had not been overruled by the new managing director, J Bruce Ismay, one of the most tragic figures in the story?...
...Thomas Hardy’s Melchester (Salisbury) is presumably not where Melchester Rovers in Roy of the Rovers played....
...Hardy Underwriting increased its estimates by £7m last week, while some Bermudan reinsurers also have done so, but not yet other large Lloyd’s companies....
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