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...The garden needed some kind of boundary between the garden in front of the house and the orchard beyond and so, rather than removing the hedge altogether, my husband and I lopped it into an abstract and...
...When the Kiln Theatre in north London began rehearsals for Moira Buffini’s Handbagged, Queen Elizabeth II was on the throne and Boris Johnson was prime minister....
...See if you can spot a painting of Elizabeth Taylor and a print of Oscar Wilde....
...TED Conference founder Richard Saul Wurman bought (and sold) The Orchard, a eucalyptus-green-gated property on Narragansett Avenue....
...When blended into one of Oliver’s perries, Saladino says, these perry pears make a drink that is “lighter than wine, more elegant than cider” with the “bittersweet taste of ripening orchard fruit”....
...Instead, she pursued a career as a jewellery designer, then a picture researcher (a role which involved sourcing images for the cookbooks of legendary food writer Elizabeth David)....
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...The vast, multibillion-dollar site includes orchards and more than 9,000 newly planted trees. Even the building itself is designed to encircle a park, an unusual thing in a building-centric era....
...The plan would have fully pedestrianised Oxford Street from Orchard Street, by Selfridges department store, past Bond Street to Oxford Circus, with buses diverted to the north....
...Under the proposals, traffic will be banned on the east-west section that runs from Oxford Circus to Orchard Street, near Marble Arch, following years of complaints from businesses and residents about filthy...
...Elizabeth Dee moved out of Chelsea after 15 years in 2016 and into a space in the still edgy Harlem neighbourhood and talks of getting away from “hyper-gentrification”....
...You could have bought a sofa with the money, a diamond, a little orchard . . . Of course, we don’t say this stuff. We’re not evil or mad. It just sort of fizzes from our pores....
...botanicals including citrus peels, thyme, plum stones and Somerset wormwood, it is, according to its oenophile creator Ian Hart, a vermouth inspired by “Tudor pomanders, Elizabethan herb gardens and English orchards...
...Further inland, Savills is selling a villa in Santa Gertrudis with an orchard for €5.25m. British buyers are leading the charge....
...A lonely old woman, Elizabeth Sawyer is ostracised and branded a witch by her neighbours – to the point where she begins to wish she did indeed have supernatural powers....
...On Singapore’s Orchard Road, roughly equivalent to Fifth Avenue in New York, Hong Kong-based jeweller Temptations is about to open a showroom – its first outside the Chinese-administered territory....
...In the 16th century the manor passed into the hands of Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford, who displeased Elizabeth I by having at least three secret marriages....
...My favourite play, outside the works of Shakespeare, is Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard....
...Striking steep-sided hills were covered in chequered green fields; women in felt fedoras worked plots bordered with apple orchards; cows grazed among scattered hamlets and isolated rustic cabins....
...Some of our most productive arable farms roll down to a line of tiny fishing ports, game leaps into your path as you wind down lanes flanked by orchards....
...Eastcheap to the vale of Evesham – and countless groundlings who had immigrated from the hard-up countryside into the swarming shacks and tenements of London would have had no trouble in conjuring up the orchards...
...We were in the Buster Keaton suite, next door is C Lelouch and down the hall Elizabeth Taylor and Errol Flynn....
...James Burnell-Nugent, Director, Orchard Leadership, Modbury, Devon, UK...
...What: A six-bedroom, five-bathroom house, with 2.3 acres of land, fruit orchard, olive grove and pool....
...Elsewhere, fruit orchards and vegetable plots confiscated from the Schiavone clan are tended by five “disadvantaged” workers managed by Mirella Letizia and the Eureka co-operative....
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