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...His escape into a life of letters had begun in the late 1950s, when he was a lowly young MI5 desk officer with a Home Counties commute, an unhappy wife and kids in tow....
...A few of the stories reframe Christmas folklore (a witty take on the King Wenceslas carol is particularly entertaining), while several others are set in a town called Blackbury in the county of Gritshire...
...Mimi and The Small Canteen are open only for dinner and closed on Sundays and Mondays, while eight-person Alumni Kitchen Table, in County Kildare, operates on Friday and Saturday nights....
...Major construction for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art is under way....
...taught gem-setting himself, the other an engineer) who work in his atelier....
...The addition of music seemed to map out this venue in unexpected ways and yielded gems such as hearing Elizabeth Fraser’s mesmerising vocals as you approached the 16th-century Raphael cartoons....
...It was usually too Home Counties for me, but during sale time there would be surprise gems, like an overlooked Mulberry bag for half price....
...“It was such a gem we didn’t have it for long,” she said. Thomas did not appear to see why anything about the sale of an artwork like this should be problematic....
...St Eia, a wine bar and coffee shop, is another gem created by London escapees....
...(In Aylesbury, the best view in the town was from the massive, brutalist County Hall, as it was the only spot from which you couldn’t see County Hall.)...
...Myrtle offers a seven-course tasting menu that is essentially a mini-tour of Ireland: half a dozen or so of the counties are represented through the ingredients used....
...Nestling just south of the border with Northern Ireland, County Louth is known for its myths. The town of Dundalk, population around 39,000, dates back to Neolithic times....
...County; the Institute of Contemporary Art Miami; the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum (they also established a stunning Museum of Science) and more....
...both in London and in California last February, I kept coming across such relatively unfamiliar names as Dunnigan Hills, Coombsville, Borden Ranch, Clements Hills, Yorkville Highlands and Red Hills Lake County...
...Demand is strong but there are gems to be found, including a Grade II-listed Georgian house in Gloucestershire, encircled by 7.5 acres of garden and woodland, on sale through Savills for £2.2m....
...FG manueltavares.com Mascari, Venice A hidden gem near the Rialto market, family-run Mascari has remained delightfully unchanged since it opened its doors in 1948....
...Unlike Marianne, he does not undergo a dramatic style transition when he arrives at Trinity from their hometown in County Sligo, on the west coast of Ireland....
...Who The Modern House Westchester County, US, $4.35m Where Greenhaven, in the Hudson Valley, New York. A 30-minute drive to Manhattan....
...According to renowned chef Michel Roux Jr — who has a restaurant in Westminster called Roux at Parliament Square — there have always been gems in the area, you just need to know where to look....
...What else we’re reading On the ground with Trump’s foot soldiers At a local library in Kenosha County, Wisconsin volunteers are being trained by Trump party organisers to prepare for a get-out-the-vote...
...Richard Allen is executive chef at The Orangery, Rockliffe Hall, County Durham....
...Many of its gems are hidden, which makes finding them all the more gratifying. I fell in love with Jackson Heights, believed to be the most multicultural enclave in the most diverse borough....
...Cheng Li, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, the US-based think-tank, said: “Just as Shenzhen and Pudong [in Shanghai] are considered gems of the Deng era, Xi aspires to see his name associated...
...But it defines a “conflict diamond” only as a gem that is used to fund rebel groups....
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