Hints and tips:
...(The real Profumo scandal, I learn, was that at his wife’s request he painted over the oak panelling in Wedgwood blue and white, an intervention later painstakingly reversed.)...
...No, it’s a wild horse that must be broken in, every 12 months, for the rest of your life....
...He looks thinner, sure, but the strategic dishevelment remains — it is his Trojan horse....
...She isolated colours and then combined them, yellow with blue, or pinks, reds and lavender with grey....
...One wanted English meadow flowers up to its withers; the other wanted pomp and ceremony and scarcely any horses at all. The French horse snapped and called the English horse “bridezilla”....
...Skelton had been the rider to go last and would have forced a jump-off with Guerdat....
...That’s something you don’t know until you’re in the arena, when the going gets tough and you call on a horse to jump for its life.” The blue riband event at Aachen is the Rolex Grand Prix....
...There’s Punch and Judy shows, delicious ice cream, fish and chips and an award-winning, privately-owned pier....
...Changes in power inevitably involve changes in style, and not just of the speech-making and horse-trading kind....
...The horses are looked after by Irish grooms, spend their nights in air conditioned stables, and are given aquatherapy treatment....
...As a tie-in, Clinique has produced a limited-edition CD of “happy” songs, inclining Judy Garland’s Get Happy and the Turtles’ Happy Together. Happy makes you feel happy....
...Stronach plans to let the evacuees stay at Palm Meadows until the horses and grooms arrive in about two months....
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