Hints and tips:
...“The betting numbers have continued to be strong in the US, stronger than we thought they’d be,” he told the Financial Times....
...Ticket sales have been strong for the two operas — Mozart’s Don Giovanni and Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore — and there will also be youth events, two oratorios in performance and Christmas concerts....
...If finances allowed, she’d also throw in a Soap Table by the Dutch-Kiwi designer Sabine Marcelis. “I just love the colour and the texture. How it feels contemporary but organic....
...“Prior to that I’d been hot-benching in a way,” she says. “But during the pandemic I had a more permanent spot and I realised you need your space to be settled....
...But, as interest rates have risen, Gareth Bowden of agent Winkworth says agreed sales prices are “on the way down”....
...It’s with dessert that Bowden’s Britishness comes out....
...’s eye for offsetting theatrical objets d’art and 20th-century design against a pared-back canvas of natural materials has won her a word-of-mouth reputation as a purveyor of wabi-sabi — the Japanese aesthetic...
...“Bowden’s been looked after very well. If you want something of that calibre it’s not always easy to find,” says Holborow....
...“I’d found a material that was simpatico to my temperament. The thing about plaster is that once you mix it up with water you have five minutes to make your decisions....
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...On an achingly hot Tuesday in July last year, the pool at La Colombe d’Or in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, in the south of France was, as always, 27 degrees....
...The NHS announced last month that it would open 14 new clinics and increase funding for the one operated by Bowden-Jones....
...“You didn’t quite have to swear that you’d go to church on a Sunday but it was a bit like that,” says Wood....
...“For example, a call centre in a supply operation: you’d do interviews, workshops, try to understand how the processes work. It takes months.”...
...“I’d liken it to the early days of the smartphone.”...
...asked Dickon Bowden, vice-president of Dover Street Market. “A picture of Yeltsin wearing a Burberry coat.”...
...We’d ask them who they’d like to be when they grow up and they’d say Wayne Rooney or David Beckham. Coaching the national team isn’t on my CV — it was more just a strange thing that happened....
...Mr Bowden of the SEC has also warned about “zombie” groups, which cannot raise new funds but continue to manage assets....
...When they found out I was on the list they’d say they had no work,” he says. “From then on I had no certainty . . . I’d go from one small job to another.”...
...But the year preparing for the transfer to G4S was, as Clare Heyes-Bowden, a custody suite worker and the union representative, puts it, “one of the most stressful I’d lived through . . ....
...“She thought I’d hit rock bottom but I hadn’t. I never took responsibility for what I’d done. That’s why it happened again.”...
...So Geoff in “Trespass”, taking his lady friend out on exacting route-marches, seems a much less solid proposition than the “Bowden Bridge car park, the reservoir, pick up the Pennine Way to the Downfall,...
...“You’d expect us to have that position, but it’s hard to see how people benefit out of it.” Others disputed the notion....
...The fact that we’d all been re-reading Sarah Waters’ The Little Stranger, one of the other shortlisted books, and in part a ghost story, meant that we were susceptible to the thought....
...“When I moved in I thought: ‘Oh my God, this was one of the things I said I’d never do....
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