Hints and tips:
...One glance at the fully extended “La prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France” (“Prose of the Trans-Siberian and of Little Joan of France”) yields a jolt of polychrome pleasure....
...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....
...La Nauve, however, directs its guests to smaller independents such as Delamain in nearby Jarnac (where the house in which François Mitterrand was born is now a museum); and Hardy, 300 metres from the hotel...
...“No shade to anyone else, but some performers don’t go the extra mile for their audience,” he says, dialling in from his home in LA....
...For a very hardy and early ripening black grape, Vitis Sovereign Coronation would be a sound choice....
...One photograph shows Hardy’s daughter joyfully bounding through a field in front of a herd of grazing cows. “The cows are her audience,” says Hardy, “even though no performance was intended.”...
...Dermot Hardy Dublin, Ireland...
...Keith La Roche and his wife Joanne are just moving into a four-bedroom detached house behind Avon Beach they bought last year and have renovated....
...Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel described him as a “metallurgist de la mode.”...
...The latest senior executive to leave is Sebastien de La Riviere, the investor behind activist campaigns at UK healthcare giant GSK and Germany’s Fresenius, who joined the firm in 2008....
...Zahra Rezaei Afsah retells Persian epics and fables beneath the elaborate painted ceilings of the Musée de la Musique; there’s a panel on women’s historic role in storytelling and engaging workshops at Cadi...
...For shoes, Pierre Hardy’s boutique is worth a visit....
...Some of the grapes from Tolpuddle vineyard were bought by Hardys for the blend of its flagship Eileen Hardy Chardonnay, for instance, and another big company was paying A$7,000 a ton, twice the going rate...
...Françoise Hardy was a fan in the 1960s; today, Alexa Chung flits around in the dainty three-strap Kina style. But not all 2022’s trending Mary Janes read gamine....
...“Remember,” Rose told graduates from the stage, “you are the crème de la crème”....
...There was a very competent-looking ginger cake for dessert, all dark spice and brooding complexity like Tom Hardy, only smeared with a thick layer of Jersey cream....
...From £165, coldatnight.co.uk (Almost) On Chesil Beach West Dorset: good enough for PJ Harvey and Mark Hix (and Jane Austen, and Thomas Hardy), good enough for us....
...La Pescaia’s mixed herd includes these rare breed cows, elegant and hardy with lyre-shaped horns, as well as the horses we ride — crossbred thoroughbreds, Arabs and the special Maremmana breed historically...
...Later in the book, the sense of danger and desperation conjured up in the masterful “La Moretta” is something utterly different....
...I had a good crop from La Diva last year, letting it sprawl up some meshed wire netting outdoors....
...“It’s only very recently that most people have been comfortable mixing,” Joanna Hardy says....
...(In Locke Tom Hardy drove from Birmingham to London emoting on speakerphone; Ryan Reynolds spent Buried in a coffin.) In The Guilty the formula is tweaked for Covid safety....
...She has created a formula for her outfits — hat, coat, Launer bag, shoes — without resorting to wearing the same black mockneck (à la Steve Jobs) or navy suits (Barack Obama) every day....
...(Not to mention the basket of freshly baked focaccia to fare la scarpetta — ie, to mop it all up with a “little shoe”.)...
...Dropping twice yearly, it is a curation of the crème de la crème of jewels, sourced from across the world, discovered via long-distance phone calls and late-night WhatsApps....
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