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...Norris said: “A landlord might think — if I have one default in every five tenancies, I have to factor in only receiving, say, nine months’ rent....
...Hamptons, which estimated the mortgage bill, put the rise down to higher interest rates for investors buying homes, dearer tracker rates and a wave of cheaper fixed-term deals expiring and requiring refinancing...
...Holland and Sons, Whytock and Reid, Hampton and Sons and Cornelius V Smith are also good names to type into your search browser....
...which she has hundreds at home, all customised with glitter and capital letters in one of her two “Libbie factories” (a studio adjacent to her bedroom in New York, and another in a converted garage in the Hamptons...
...Rowan bought upscale restaurants in the Hamptons. Harris collected sports teams....
...But there’s also a restless sense of postwar turbulence and Norris retains the scope of the novel with a silent chorus of people on the move....
...I am a fan of many of the company’s wall lights, but I am particularly enjoying the Hand Sconce V. 2, which features an opal glass shade that would provide a lovely, glowing light....
...Meanwhile backstage, props, costumes and wigs need to be separated, and keeping cast members safe is a military operation worthy of Henry V. Shakespeare was not a man for a two-hander....
...My point in telling you about my holidays is simple: I am in the vortex of Britain’s stunning V-shaped recovery....
...Even Man v Food, in which a presenter who I fear will die young tackles “interesting eating challenges” (think a “Texan Dinner” involving a 72oz steak) proved grossly compelling....
...Godfrey Kneller’s streamlined “Hampton Court Beauties” — “Diana de Vere”, “Margaret Cecil” — are identikit as the giant Chinese porcelain vases displayed alongside them....
...Some people call Comporta, a coastal area about an hour and half’s drive from central Lisbon, “The Hamptons of Portugal”....
...And I think actually when you look at the big picture the whole election, obviously number one is Labour v Tory, as always. Yeah....
...Tetrick shudders at the V-word. “Like ketchup is a vegan product,” he says defensively. Just’s vision is not to have its products adopted only by vegan San Franciscans....
...A terrific climactic confrontation shortly before the end burns with a superficially noble brutality not unlike the newly crowned King Henry V’s rejection of Falstaff, yet even then and afterwards it becomes...
...There is a wealth of younger talent waiting in the wings: when Sir Nicholas Hytner stepped down from the leadership of the National Theatre last year, he was replaced by Rufus Norris (b 1965); Sandy Nairne...
...Who Engel & Völkers, engelvoelkers.com, tel: +351 21 096 06 40 19 Chauncey Close, East Hampton, New York, US, $21m Where Between Georgica Pond and the Atlantic in East Hampton....
...It was Hampton’s first solo show in 10 years....
...The clock was the talk of last year’s Masterpiece, and is now owned by the V&A. How does this diffident, shy character work such magic?...
...The first half shows Norris at his best, peppered with witty one-liners and underscored by a poignant sense of loss, the friends mourning Frankie, themselves and a childhood suddenly ended. E.V....
...No Godiva this year, but the cake is back, freshly decorated to mark the (slightly more fitting) 600th anniversary of Henry V’s victory at Agincourt....
...Alden Gregory, assistant curator at Hampton Court Palace, says one of the most interesting pieces, now in the V&A, is “The Triumph of Fame over Death” based on Petrarch’s The Triumphs....
...She is also a director of The National Archives, and a former trustee of the V&A and chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority. She is, like her father, a wonderful broadcaster....
...But the most spectacular was Hampton Court Palace, a gift from Cardinal Wolsey, which he spent some £62,000 (equivalent to about £18m today) rebuilding and extending....
...Following the recent case of Prest v Petrodel, it is clear that a wife cannot “pierce the corporate veil” to access the assets of the husband’s company....
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