Hints and tips:
...My plan B, which has so far more or less held, was to buy a large sheet of plastic sheeting to pop inside the tub and make it watertight....
...There are electric gates and landscaped gardens....
...This became known as “gradualism” — a kind of halfway house preceding independence....
...It’s pretty, constructed in what I like to think of as classic English garden style....
...That would change after he purchased two adjacent plots of land in Wannsee in 1901, and over the next decade constructed a house between the front and back gardens....
...Palazzo Passerini is a three-bedroom residence that can be booked on a B&B basis or bought out in exclusivity by a total of six guests....
...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....
...and gardens....
...What A detached, Category B-listed renovated Victorian house with a modern extension....
..., London The 350-year-old walled kitchen garden at Chiswick House – which donates and sells its fruit, vegetables and flowers – has just reopened....
...Why The main living areas, terrace and garden have harbour views, while the pool house is lined with bifolding doors for summer and winter use....
...registered with the Pewterers’ Company and any maker found to be selling substandard wares risked losing their mark and being unable to trade,” notes Angus Patterson, senior curator of metalwork at the V&...
...A buzzy but unobtrusive soundtrack of, say, R&B or soul complements dinner....
...Space-age design II Up 1 (1969) Created by Gaetano Pesce for B&B Italia, this vacuum-packed foam chair came flat....
...Soft greys and browns represent the wool trade; the brighter pinks and blues were based on an 18th-century Spitalfields silk dress at the V&A....
...“The table was meant to be something you’d find at an old English country house where the wife was French.”...
...He likes to keep things intimate: like “a great house party”, albeit one with a free-flowing and abundant bar....
...He soon bagged a regular spot at Restaurante Antonio in Covent Garden. The set-up may have resembled a floorshow, but Peña’s obvious genius transcended the format. Word soon spread....
...Why The house is set on more than an acre of grounds with terraces, entertaining areas, a garden studio, pond and mature plants....
...Robin’s recommendations (all FT links get you past the paywall): –Robin’s public gardens, ‘the kissing fields’, are the gardens he runs at New College, Oxford....
...“I had a dual plan: plan A involved transforming the family home into a guest house and restaurant; and plan B was to sustain a livelihood as a chef, regardless.”...
...September 21; further information and tickets here Festivals The FT Weekend Festival, Kenwood House Gardens The day when the FT Weekend paper springs to life across ten stages in the sweeping gardens...
...Programmers, like publishers, are normally slaves to the calendar, yet last year’s centenary came and went with scarcely a peep from Covent Garden....
...On the walls by the house, the lovely Phyllis Bide, a long-flowering rambler, runs near an entwined couple of whites, Brenda Colvin and Sir Cedric Morris....
...The harp lived in the window of the garden’s stone “Howling House”....
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