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...Similarly, UK-based specialist Clive Sutton customises V-Class and Sprinter vans to a similar spec, with prices starting from £180,000....
...“Children have always chosen animals,” says Katy Canales, project curator at Young V&A, which reopens today in east London following a £13mn renovation....
...James’s response was to make a snow-hardy garden of 28 concrete structures, some to house his menagerie of an ocelot, a small monkey, parrots and boas....
...With writer and gardener Tilly Gathorne-Hardy, he’s scouring heritage seed lists and planning crops for the kitchen at the walled garden of the nearby Glemham Estate....
...the piece is reset with the Cullinan III, IV and V diamonds from Queen Elizabeth II’s jewellery collection....
...In the 1960s, Rabanne’s designs were worn by some of the stars who defined the age: popular French singer Françoise Hardy, Brigitte Bardot and Jane Birkin....
...They begin with a sequel to the English King Henry V’s victory over the French at Agincourt....
...Back on the racks of seed packets, I covet all the hardy annuals that plug-planting does not provide....
...V. Group, the world’s largest ship manager, has urged Nato to provide naval escorts for commercial ships....
...And Topo Designs, a Colorado brand known for its hardy backpacks, is about to launch its Mountain Series collection of colourful, retro-looking carriers made from 100 per cent recycled nylon....
...Davidson quotes Thomas Hardy’s poem “Seen by the Waits”, in which startled carol singers witness a squire’s wife dancing alone with “delinquent joy”....
...Paul Getty bought Sutton Place, a gorgeous Tudor mansion in which, despite his reputation as a parsimonious hermit, he hosted lavish parties....
...Retiree Ian Newcombe, from Sutton Coldfield in the English Midlands, has been visiting his two-bedroom holiday home in Cala d’Or, on the south-east coast, five times a year....
...From Julian Fellowes to Nicholas Coleridge, chair of the V&A museum, they are full of interest....
...There is, however, one worthwhile option: buy a seed packet of winter-hardy broad beans, Super Aquadulce and Sutton’s The Dwarf being excellent....
...It is offered by Thompson and Morgan, Mr Fothergills, Johnsons Seeds and Suttons, among others....
...This year, the V-Dem Institute at the University of Gothenburg confirmed that “for the first time since 2001, there are more autocracies than democracies in the world”....
...If you cannot find a particular poppy seed under hardy annuals, try special offers....
...Last year, the charity opened one of its largest centres to date at the Royal Marsden Sutton in Surrey, where architect Ab Rogers’ building is encircled by Dutchman Piet Oudolf’s landscaping....
...Meanwhile, in the V&A’s Blavatnik Hall, Bali-based designer Elora Hardy has assembled an installation of miniature bamboo buildings. Free, September 14-22; vam.ac.uk ....
...I was judging an illustration thing at the V&A and I thought, ‘I’ll get there early because they’ve got one box of jewellery that’s been found.’”...
...From where I work, I can see a thin “V” in the hills leading to the beach at Seatown. We walk to it often, meeting friends for summer swims and barbecues, or for fish and chips at The Anchor Inn....
...These clothes, by contrast, will last a lifetime: in hardy wools, canvas-lined, they were substantial....
...With the opium poppies I will sow some of Suttons’ excellent Ladybird poppies, deep scarlet ones with black blotches inside the flowers....
...The V&A acquired fragments of the building, including the exterior façade and interiors of two flats....
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