Hints and tips:
...I don’t think we can get an Oscar-winning actress but we could definitely get Holly Willoughby or Maya Jama from Love Island....
...Holly, when mulched regularly, is surprisingly fast growing but it is literally a pain to topiarise, however thick your gardening gauntlets....
...Nieces and nephews get cash, which is all they want, and we try to get them something small — one year we did brush pots from Pentreath & Hall and everyone loved them....
...Ilex x altaclerensis Golden King (a female holly) has glossy, dark green leaves with golden margins....
...I like a garland made from fir or pine, and into this I’ll weave holly and ivy, maybe some eucalyptus....
...If you have a question for Luke about design and stylish living, email him at lukeedward.hall@ft.com....
...“We’re trying to apply it to a standard touring model,” says Holly Race Roughan, artistic director of Headlong....
...In the powder blue 1830s drawing room exhibit, holly was neatly tucked behind the gilt frames of modest paintings....
...“I’ll have my coloured lights and leftover gingerbreads from a display we’re doing at the London Marriott hotel County Hall,” he says. “Hopefully they won’t be stale.”...
...TV presenters Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby were accused of queue-jumping, although a statement said that they had visited “in a professional capacity”....
...Self-professed introverts Holly Wright and Camille Perry, who met while working at Topshop during it’s Noughties heyday, realised their symbiosis almost immediately....
...Crowley’s tale is a lot of fun, as is Mel Taylor-Bessent’s The Christmas Carrolls (Farshore, £7.99), about a family so enamoured of Christmas that they celebrate it every single day of the year; their halls...
...Uncut Gems Where to watch: Netflix Just a few blocks south of Tiffany’s is a different New York to the high society of Holly Golightly. Another kind of movie too....
...Email him at lukeedward.hall@ft.com and follow him on Instagram @lukeedwardhall I am rather depressed that it is time to get rid of all the Christmas decorations....
...Our decorating starts with us gathering holly, ivy and rosemary from the garden. This is a classic, elegant way to bring the magic of the season indoors....
...Rose hips and Queen Anne’s lace in October, holly and ivy in November . . . I never take much (think of the birds), just the odd few branches....
...Yasmin and her husband, Julian – a Jungian analyst, therapist and teacher at the liberal arts school Dartington Hall (alumni include Lucian Freud, songwriter Kit Hain and literary editor Miriam Gross) –...
...How can I dress the table, beyond holly and pine cones? Well, holly is certainly an excellent start. Good greenery is the very foundation of Christmas decorating....
...Let us be your locals Illustrations by Harry Haysom About the author Holly Peterson, FT contributor In addition to contributing to FT Globetrotter, Holly writes a column analysing and sometimes satirising...
...Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison, Frank Zappa, Maria Callas and Ronnie James Dio have all returned to the stage in holographic form; more are on the way....
...“Full of lovely old brownstones with bow-front windows and beautifully kept front gardens,” is how Holly Lucerne String describes it....
...Email him at lukeedward.hall@ft.com or follow him on Instagram @lukeedwardhall I want to buy my daughter an antique or vintage item for her wedding present....
...Isabel Bannerman – who along with her husband, Julian, has created atmospheric gardens for the Prince of Wales at Highgrove, Lord Cholmondeley’s Houghton Hall and at their former homes Hanham Court and Trematon...
...Down the hall, two of her adult children are working from their bedrooms, while two younger ones are studying....
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