Hints and tips:
...I reviewed recently the book Growing Bulbs in the Natural Garden by Jacqueline van der Kloet, Holland’s queen of bulb planting. She is not at her best on summer flowerers....
...“Checkerboard can sit in any space and be manipulated around any shape,” says artist Jacqueline de la Fuente, founder of De La Jardin, who paints her papier-mâché Onsen vases (£340) with irregular squares...
...Other works are by notable living Dutch artists, among them Philip Akkerman, Frank Van den Broeck, Jacqueline de Jong and Emo Verkerk....
...Initially Nefkens’ approaches to museum directors in Holland were rebuffed. “They weren’t interested in collaborating with a private person,” he explains....
...The podcast I’m listening to is the episode of Desert Island Discs with Jacqueline Du Pré, the virtuoso cellist....
...“It would be disastrous for trust in the retirement system if cuts to pension payouts have to be introduced,” said Jacqueline Lommen, a senior pensions strategist at State Street Global Advisors, the US...
...After the Germans invaded Holland, Schloss’s family was forced into hiding....
...I’m about to start Percy Bysshe Shelley: Poet and Revolutionary by Jacqueline Mulhallen. Phone on or off? I don’t think I’ll get the chance to do a true digital detox myself this summer....
...Highlights from these are the Pompidou’s outrageous “La Pisseuse” (1965), where 84-year-old Picasso depicts Jacqueline urinating: a proudly erect mock-Greek figure, her sharp features grotesquely exaggerated...
...The Hollands’ butler was appalled to hear the cook addressing a guest as “dear”, after Kennedy came downstairs in search of baking soda and “wahter”, but she replied that he was just a “poorly young man...
...More recently, Jacqueline Cramer, Dutch environment minister, a scientist by training, has gone out of her way to try to build trust among residents ....
...These days, if you offer someone your hand at a business meeting in the US, they might refuse to shake it, according to Jacqueline Whitmore, author of Business Class: Etiquette Essentials for Success at...
...The Spoerrys all spoke German, French and English – Anne even spent two years in London at the Francis Holland Church of England School For Girls....
...We are more concerned about places like Holland, for when the sea level increases. It’s those places where people have to be worried.”...
...Jacqueline Gestetner confirms that the meaning of jewellery is far more than its value: “I feel strongly that jewellery is an interactive thing with the wearer....
...Jacqueline van Maarsen is cycling home after her first day at the Jewish Lyceum when ”a short, skinny girl with shiny black hair and rather sharp features” rides up beside her....
...“Some farmers are renting out their land or converting it back into pastureland,” said Jacqueline Alves, a trader with Multisafra in Mato Grosso....
...Large colour plates of unrivalled quality, scores of photographs and illuminating text record his great oriental decorative period, and the ascent of his last muse, Jacqueline Roque....
...When I inquire into the rumour that all 35 of his artists are going to contribute a piece for his new home in Holland Park, he mutters “not all of them”, with a quiver of embarrassment....
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