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...There is a 12-acre lake that we intend to use for windsurfing....
...I have a vivid recollection of the loggia and lake at Hever Castle — I would have been around the same age as my children are now — the 38-acre lake almost too big for me to contemplate....
...Back at the farmhouse, Goldman, Fowler and I eat heirloom tomatoes and mozzarella on the veranda overlooking the lake....
...Fresh water is a must: bees will congregate on anything from a bird bath to the banks of a stream or lake....
...Matthew Wilson is managing director of Clifton Nurseries, London Photographs: Sven Torfinn; Steve Forrest; Rachel Warne; Dieter Telemans...
...Morgen McLaughlin, executive director of Santa Barbara Vintners, used to hold a similar position in the Finger Lakes region in New York state, and moved west a couple of years ago....
...Honey bees are housed in hives on the roof and, in addition to pollination duties within the garden, they can be seen heading up and over the parapet and out towards Lake Ontario to forage farther afield...
...The apartments that comprise the Barbican complex are highly desirable; the lease on a one-bedroom flat overlooking the centrepiece lake and gardens is now more than £800,000....
...In a lake infested with invasive non-native carp – which were eating anything and destroying the fragile lake ecosystem – Blue Water funds had been used to implement an ingenious “fish lift” system, enabling...
...Matthew Wilson is managing director of Clifton Nurseries in London...
...Forbes says: “British swallows also favour Cape Town, where they will spend the Christmas party season around Constantia, Clifton or Camps Bay....
...If you look at Brunel’s [Clifton Suspension] bridge in Bristol you could ask, ‘Is that architecture or engineering?’ The details are architecture but the solution is engineering.”...
...Engineer Clifton Beach, 50, and his wife Stacey, 43, bought a single-family home in Amarillo earlier this year....
...Just south of the centre, the developer Urban Splash is working on Lake Shore, on the 10-acre site of the now-demolished Imperial tobacco factory....
...From the private equity world are Glenn Hutchins of Silver Lake, Steve Rattner, the former Lazard media banker who runs Quadrangle, and Clifton Robbins of BlueHarbour Group....
...The nicest one was in a lovely old Georgian house in Clifton Village. It was very classical and 200 yards from the Clifton suspension bridge. Part of my role was to travel round visiting universities....
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