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...She became obsessed with the Lord of the Rings universe and started writing her own tales, working weekends and during school holidays, treating it like a job....
From morning meditation to an evening train to Lake Como, via museums, markets, eateries and the city’s answer to the Sistine Chapel
...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...
...It has a nice selection from Oregon’s Willamette Valley, Washington’s Columbia Valley and the Finger Lakes region of New York, which produces excellent Riesling (a personal favourite is Hermann J Wiemer’...
...“J’aime votre chariot!” said a passing cyclist, leaping to my assistance. His grin carried a whiff of sarcasm. “Est-ce lourd?”...
...“I constantly need to evolve,” she says; and this store, with its exclusive holiday focus and location, is primed for foot traffic....
...Clothing and accessories are the most popular purchases over the weekend, with retail stalwarts such as J Crew posting 50 per cent off their list prices for apparel....
...Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations that Built British Colonialism by Philip J Stern, Belknap Press £30.95/ $35, 408 pages Why Empires Fall: Rome, America and the Future of the West by John Rapley and...
...As my colleague John Gapper noted in his column, several of the board directors who originally signed off on Musk’s share options used to go on family holidays with him....
...One of these companies was At Home, a “home and holiday superstore” that was LBO’ed by Hellman & Friedman in 2021....
...How did the tabloid press get wind of his holiday fling with former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell?...
...The country’s stock market is closed for a public holiday today but US-listed shares in Argentine companies rose after the election result....
...Most people travel to the archipelago by car, up empty roads shadowing the coast, past forests of pine and hillsides of rock and heather, crossing bridges, confused by a bays and inlets and straits, until...
...I wander down to the new spa, to meet Heather Williams. Heather is thrilled to see me (the people who operate the concessions — the horse riding, the spa and Farabee’s jeeps — are all magnificent)....
...Its Melges 24s and J/80s are definitely the race cars of the harbour....
...Our holidays won’t be terribly eventful. I like the slowdown, but if my wife Estelle had her way we’d travel on every holiday....
...At the sturdier side of the market are brands such as Davy J, inflected by the trend for cold-water swimming....
...What’s more, it can be performed pre-holiday (typically you should avoid sunshine before and after laser hair removal)....
...Because, like, you know, I just watched The Mother, which is why J. Lo is so heavily on my mind. J. Lo is 54 years old right now. In the movie, Diane Keaton is 56....
...The fells are tinged with the dusky mauve of heather and the scenery is subdued and enveloping, affording a feeling of solitude I’ve not experienced anywhere else in England....
...The weather this weekend is forecast to be more stereotypical for a British bank holiday: damp and dull....
...Someone’s wearing, them, anyway: J Press sells no fewer than seven different models. Trousers. Here we enter trickier territory. I don’t own a pair....
...The Victorians developed these sheltered pools when the beach became a holiday destination after the development of the railways....
...Jody: We really look forward to the holidays....
...British fell-walker Alfred Wainwright described it as thus: “Flowers, heather and bilberries bloom on the pleasant little ridge where stands the summit cairn.”...
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