Hints and tips:
...Local craft is highlighted: ceramics by Mary Temperley, textiles and bed throws by Gather and more. Angle for one of the roll-top tubs, or, for maximum romance, the four-poster bed suite....
...However, I found it helpful to read it aloud in Dick Van Dyke’s accent from Mary Poppins. “Gaw’ bless yer, Guv’nor, but the beef tartare on toast was a right royal spread, an’ no mistake!”...
...Mary Dhonau’s house in Worcester, England, was flooded in 2000. “You can replace a fridge, you can replace a sofa. But I lost my children’s little handprints from playgroup,” she says....
...This prompted the resignations of Gavyn Davies as BBC chairman and Greg Dyke as director-general....
...In 1865, Mary Mapes Dodge, an author who had never visited the Netherlands, published the children’s novel Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates....
...Thus, when in 1634 Van Dyke made a double portrait of Charles I and Henrietta Maria displaying a modest bulge, he was showing a royal bride doing her job....
...Lin-Manuel Miranda takes on the Dick Van Dyke mantle, with a spoonful of Hamilton-style rap on the side. Practically perfect?...
...We have had 54 years to recover from Dick Van Dyke’s cockney accent in Mary Poppins. All is forgiven now....
...He also added colourful characters such as Mary’s eccentric cousin Topsy (Meryl Streep) and created cameo roles for Dick Van Dyke (co-star of the original) and 93-year-old screen legend Angela Lansbury....
...I was never much a fan of Mary Poppins, the 1964 Walt Disney film directed by Robert Stevenson....
...The closest I ever got to a chimney sweep before this was watching Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins. Admittedly, I was a bit disappointed the first time ours came to the house....
...Mary McAleese, a church-going former Irish president, has described the church as an “empire of misogyny”....
...Ashtead trading update Ashtead is the Dick Van Dyke of the FTSE 100: an American making an increasingly unconvincing attempt to come across as British....
...The Dick Van Dyke Show of the 1960s began to establish Moore, who has died aged 80, as America’s sitcom sweetheart. On that show she played a homemaker....
...They come for American Modernism, vintage photography, Impressionist and Modern art — and more contemporary offerings, such as Deborah Butterfield’s large-scale horses made of bronze (Danese/Corey, $425,000...
...But while Mr Redman says he is winning over Labour supporters, Mary Galbraith, the energetic Labour candidate, says Tory voters offer her their backing “all the time”....
...Travers (Emma Thompson) to let Mary Poppins, her medium-dark kiddy bestseller, become, well, what it became. Dancing cartoon penguins. Dick Van Dyke doing history’s weirdest cockney accent....
...… 13 Grey Mare’s Tail, Selkirkshire Start/Finish: Grey Mare’s Tail car park (NT187145) Length of walk: 2.5 miles Walkers’ pitstop: The Tibbie Shiels Inn, St Mary’s Loch Family rating: Further reading...
...Reeves, who lived near Van Dyke street on Detroit’s east side and worshipped the singer Della Reese, came up with the Vandellas....
...Always there in the background, pushing him on, was his mother Mary, who lived until she was 93. “She was highly ambitious....
...“He is very tough and very determined”, Mr Dyke says. “And very smart.”...
...Last week, the CIA fired Mary McCarthy, an intelligence officer, for allegedly leaking classified information and having undisclosed contacts with reporters. Mr Goss has increased the number of ?...
...Sea for charity Somerfield, the supermarket chain, aims to raise £1m for children’s hospices with this weekend’s two-night charity ball aboard Queen Mary 2....
International Edition