Hints and tips:
...Game birds are often shot on estates, and a top-end butcher will generally only work with certified game dealers that source quality birds from shoots in their area....
...As creative director of the new Broadwick Soho in London, Andrea Gelardin (a former collaborator of Lady Gaga’s) had additional concerns when curating the music for its basement Italian restaurant Dear Jackie...
...What to drink/eat: game birds during season, but feel guilty about it....
...I thought at one point it was an homage to Hitchcock and there were a thousand feral birds outside the window. He never found that, though. Yeah....
...There’s even a nightclub and restaurant complex known as Florida Park....
...If you like the sea, say kite surfing, beachcombing, snorkelling, scuba or bird watching, you’d be happy too....
...Yesterday Chrissy couldn’t get the wheelchair up to the kerb and some ladies came and helped. People are always offering to help....
...Wearing an ankle-grazing waxed Barbour coat and Wellingtons, her trusty cavachon Angelica (or “Gelly Bean”) by her side, she carefully scans the ground, which is scattered with sweet lady and meadow buttercups...
...Bird, Little Women)....
...that has twice made mention in the FT — recommended by Nikkei’s Joshua Ogawa in his article on the best Japanese restaurants in London, and also by supermodel Kate Moss in her guide to her favourite restaurants...
...sorrel and the purple bells of bird vetch, among others....
...“Those influencers, Instagram boys and ladies,” he says....
...Next she bought a pub, renovated it and opened a restaurant....
...The original calling bird, or “colly bird”, was the European blackbird as “colly” meant black as in “coaly”....
...Fabrice Moizan, Eden Rock’s general manager, said he peered out of the house in which he was sheltering as Irma’s eye passed over, into a world where not a bird sang or a leaf stirred....
...A broadband infrastructure programme would kill several birds with one stone....
...Theatres, clubs and cinemas are closed; so are restaurants and bars....
...That’s the subject of Werner Herzog’s new film Family Romance, LLC (opening in the UK later this year)....
...In my area of London, Soho, the restaurants have been boarded up, which adds an air of hostility to the lockdown. Thank goodness for the birds, keeping some little patter of conversation going....
...At a recent birthday, for example, I sat next to a lady who has been a resident of Stoke Newington, in north London, for many years....
...Dinner is at Bill’s restaurant: snapper with couscous washed down with a schooner of Swan’s lager....
...And there are plenty of restaurants nearby, not least justly fabled Osteria alle Testiere, five minutes’ walk away....
...He advocates filling a pie with live birds or frogs to make the “Ladies skip and shreek”....
...Lady Bird is engaged in perpetual warfare with her mum....
...It’s like Woody Allen’s joke in Annie Hall about two old ladies in a restaurant who complain that the food is “really terrible” and “such small portions”....
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