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...The markets of Zürich are filled with promotional editions of this humble pocket knife, emblazoned with the logos of many of Switzerland’s peaceful 20th-century corporate giants, from Brown Boveri to Ciba-Geigy...
...Brown is, after all, my favourite colour – not least, as one expert correctly notes here, because it looks extremely good with gold....
...Burncoose Nurseries supply passifloras, including a particular favourite, caerulea Constance Elliot, named after a great plantsman who first gave me a plant of it in my youth....
...A slice of modernism, completed in 1983, it houses one of Scotland’s finest art collections: some 9,000 artefacts amassed over a lifetime by Sir William Burrell and Constance, Lady Burrell....
...Among the whites, Lilian Bassett and, again, Constance Rivett are top picks. Home Farm do not deliver by mail....
...Taken from The Constance Spry Cookery Book by Constance Spry and Rosemary Hume, JM Dent Books, 1956 1960s Spaghetti bolognese In the 1960s, the home cook emerged from the era of war and austerity to embrace...
...Initialled trunks, Constance Spry-style urns or old-fashioned patterned dinner services strike a chord with nostalgist, vintage-loving millennials....
...When fresh-faced Dorothy (Constance Wu) starts working at a club, veteran Ramona (a magnetic Jennifer Lopez) takes her under her wing. Cue glorious slo-mo sequences and Lizzo and Cardi B cameos....
...Posing as her household help, Rose — now named “Laura Brown” — ends up typing out the writer’s much-anticipated work, produced after a decades-long hiatus....
...The author reads her own words in indomitable fashion, and anyone who enjoyed Craig Brown’s life of Glenconner’s former employer, Ma’am Darling, will find this fascinating....
...By now, the Spry vase has become a flurry of greens, browns and oranges — the constituent parts inserted in no particular order. “Obviously this is an arrangement-type arrangement....
...A gouache of a dinky green-brown number 96 bus with creamy, silvery dabs, the lovely “Autobus Gare Montparnasse (liqueur des îles)”, whose passengers are squiggly pink faces at the windows and skeletal Giacometti...
...In 1912, a group known as “the Brown Women” had walked from Edinburgh to London to gather support for a petition to the prime minister (one shinned up a telegraph pole to get a signature from an engineer...
...They hired a distiller, Jared Brown, and named their stills Prudence, Patience and Constance. They encouraged people to visit their distillery to see their gin being made, as many winemakers do....
...It was formed in 1988 from Sweden’s Asea and Switzerland’s Brown Boveri. The energy industry — a big customer — is in the middle of a revolution....
...Napoleon is reported to have had 30 bottles of Grand Constance dessert wine shipped from Cape Town every month in his final years....
...Mr Swinney’s previous role is being split, with Derek Mackay, the former transport minister, promoted to finance secretary and Keith Brown, previously infrastructure secretary, taking over a new economy...
...Neverhome, by Laird Hunt, Chatto & Windus, RRP£12.99/ Little, Brown, RRP$26, 256 pages Photograph: Corbis...
...Neverhome, by Laird Hunt, Chatto & Windus, RRP£12.99/Little, Brown, RRP$26 Worried that her husband is too weak to fight, Constance Thompson disguises herself as a man and enlists on the Union side in the...
...Mr Hosie’s victory over Keith Brown, the Scottish government’s minister of transport, and Angela Constance, its cabinet secretary for training, raises some potential party management challenges....
...There’s an enticing array of features: interviews with Kendall Jenner’s hairstylist and YuanYuanTan of the San Francisco Ballet, as well as shoots featuring models-of-the-moment Constance Jablonski, Liu...
...Both defeated candidates in this month’s election for SNP deputy leader won high-profile cabinet roles, with Angela Constance becoming the new education secretary, and Keith Brown taking responsibility for...
For one of the art world’s most powerful figures, rural Somerset represents a surprising – and exciting – departure
...In fact, it is a small pot of apple jelly, from the tree outside, tied with a brown grosgrain ribbon and marked with a handmade label. It’s very charming. I try not to look too disappointed....
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