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...When I made a show garden with Ann-Marie Powell back in 2010 we had two people on leaf-polishing duty who would have passed out if they’d seen the state of some of Massey’s leaves....
...The wiles of the bedroom are given due prominence, and the arid matters of state made to appear deathly dull....
...Charles Mackay was championing the railways at the very peak of the railway mania, late in 1845. Within a matter of weeks, shares in railways fell by one-fifth....
...I believe in the power of abortion funds who are committed, no matter what, to providing safe, accessible abortion to anybody in this country who needs one....
...Whether you buy a huge sack of mixed daffodils or carefully curate a colour scheme of many varieties matters not. More important is picking where to place them....
...Visiting such places can be deeply touching — to stand for a moment in Jane Austen’s modest house in Chawton, seeing the tiny writing table and hearing the racket of the village street just a few feet away...
...Most of the plants used are epiphytes that anchor themselves to branches in the wild, so in an aquascape they prefer to be glued or wired on to a branch or a chunk of lava rock, into which they will eventually...
...EBay Marie Oh HuberSenior vice-president of legal affairs, general counsel and company secretary Marie Oh Huber joined eBay in 2015, drawn to the online marketplace provider because of its commitment to...
...Designed by Italian New Yorker Silvia Avanzi, and made in Venice, Gray Matters, as the name suggests, is the thinking-person’s choice....
...Anne Marie Waters, the director of Sharia Watch UK pressure group, was last week approved by Ukip’s national executive as one of 11 candidates in this summer’s contest....
...However, the growing number of signatories has made the system unwieldy: In 1980 there were just 13 countries that had “consultative” status to make the key decisions on treaty matters — that number has...
...Marie Taillard, professor of creativity marketing, ESCP Europe The most thought provoking book for me this year has been Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age by Sherry Turkle....
...After leaving banking in 2000, he ran Marie Curie Cancer Trust for 12 years....
...Jane Owen Lionel Barber Editor of the Financial Times In How Music Got Free , Stephen Witt tells of how technology in the form of the MP3 digital format brought the music industry to its knees....
...… Jane, the Fox and Me, by Fanny Britt and Isabelle Arsenault, Walker Books, RRP£15 Hélène is a lonely, bullied schoolgirl who draws consolation from Jane Eyre....
...As they grew older, Bette Davis and Joan Crawford were reduced to the grotesquerie of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?...
...My indefatigable fellow designer, Ann-Marie Powell, and I took to the road to choose plants from nurseries within range of Chelsea....
...The ruffle has returned, in varying states of intensity, suggesting that all work and no play makes Jane’s wardrobe a dull thing, and the fastest way to add a bit of bounce to your step is to add it to your...
...Golden handcuffs topped Mary Jane stilettos, imprisoning the ankle, and collars wound round the neck in another sort of cuff, leaving exposed flesh from the clavicle to the cleavage....
...Indeed, one of the first gay couples I encountered were slowed down as they made their way through a gallery because one of them needed a Zimmer frame....
...For example, Picasso’s “Nude in a Red Armchair” becomes far less impenetrable to the casual visitor if you tell them it is a portrait of his lover Marie-Therese Walter....
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