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...They’d recreated her desk with a copy of French Style by Suzanne Slesin and Stafford Cliff: I ordered a copy and it was there when I got home....
...“If I were in HMRC, I’d be arguing these payments [by the Post Office] are not deductible,” she added. However, other tax experts said the matter was not clear-cut....
...Two months after contracting Covid-19 in August 2021, Heather Marti, a university programme administrator from West Virginia, began to experience a terrifying array of symptoms that have changed her life...
...In the book, friend Heather Ashton recalls how she’d unhook a slip dress and wear it on the hips so that it would drag along the ground, paired with a baby-T or bodysuit....
...The patchwork of different heathers can also provide fodder for various birds. Grouse butts for driven shooting peek out of the heather at Abercairny; I’m told they are seldom used....
...Owners Michael and Heather Bunker, and their daughters Janine and Sophie, are originally from the local resort town of Southend-on-Sea....
...Heather Gramston, Browns’ senior head of men’s and women’s buying, points to bold, grungy styles by Burberry (£1,790), as well as “bestselling cult favourites” by Charles Jeffrey Loverboy as being typical...
...All of these varieties must meet a number of criteria to pass: for example, blossom honey must have at least 60g of fructose and glucose content per 100g, honey made from heather is not allowed moisture...
...The description of the final weeks of Emily’s life is almost unbearably moving: “All my life I’d withstood any damage inflicted on me, even by my own hand, felt sure that I would always recover,” she reflects...
...Enter the “presumed lightweight”, rich underachiever Franklin D Roosevelt, whose upbringing, we learn, included a mother who endlessly told him how special he was....
...“They’d both lost faith in the institutions of the world, and that made them partners, even accomplices, in a daily practice of defiance,” Li writes....
...One was that we’d get killed. The other was that we might have to kill someone.”...
...From the 1920s onwards she worked for John D Rockefeller Jr, planning a landscape of native plants along the roads he was laying on the island....
...Bradford, to Ilkley, to the cobbled village of Grassington: “There is everything a man can possibly want in these dales, from trout streams to high wild moor-land walks, from deep woods to upland miles of heather...
...He stands out much more now than in his own time, when non-graduates weren’t rare (Winston Churchill, Harry Truman, Ernest Bevin)....
...“And he would reply, “Oh no, I’d rather call you Miss Smith because we have a professional relationship.”...
...“I don’t know what I’d do now if I was 20 or 25.” But Himid doesn’t believe the cuts are a sign that “wealthy people don’t care. They do care....
...On a sweltering summer evening on the terrace of Le Comptoir des Saints-Pères, a neighbourhood brasserie where F Scott Fitzgerald, concerned over the size of his manhood, once exposed himself to Ernest Hemingway...
...Ernest Doku, head of commercial for broadband and mobiles at price-comparison company Uswitch, said it lacked “data-driven justification”....
...There are too many artists whose work I’d love to live with. The best bit of advice I ever received was to choose the important over the urgent. I heard this bit of advice from a sermon decades ago....
...European gems in which Bell has always excelled: Beethoven’s exuberant Violin Sonata No 1, composed in the final years of the 18th century, via glorious sonatas from Robert Schumann and César Franck, to Ernest...
...Also, nobody at any point told me that Ernest Hemingway had eaten here, which, whenever in Spain, I take as a tremendous recommendation....
...The Crafts Council in the UK is “more focused on contemporary crafts you’d see in a London art gallery,” says Carpenter....
...“You’d get a lot of loaded Americans over,” said one senior government figure....
...I felt I’d been set a challenge.”...
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