Hints and tips:
...From £18; 34 Clifton Rd, London W9 (simonwarwicksalons.co.uk) My favourite room in my house is my bedroom, where I go to be quiet – it’s a very calm deep green. I love hanging out in bed....
...Mary’s Living & Giving Shop for Save the Children, 11 Clifton Road (020-7289 9648; savethechildren.org.uk). Retro Living, by appointment, 07976-628 124; retroliving.co.uk....
...The American writer Clifton Fadiman once said that what made her great was that she wrote “not as a specialist but a whole human being, spiky with prejudices”....
...Mr Bacon has alleged that Mr Nygard is harming the environment around Clifton Bay, where both men have homes. Mr Nygard denies the allegation....
...Mumfords and mopes, wibbets and outrules: the Mary Poppins-like patter of the slaters is seldom spoken now....
...Matthew Wilson is managing director of Clifton Nurseries, London Photographs: Jason Smalley/Gap Photos; Alamy; Nagasaki Museum of History and Culture; bridgemanimages.com; Geheugen van Nederland; Mary Evans...
...He lives with his wife Mary in London and Cambridge. What is the last thing you read that made you laugh out loud?...
...The British designer Mary Keen created a garden on the island using predominantly indigenous plants, and she praises their beauty and compatibility with the landscape....
...Luckily, threats by Brunel senior to work for Alexander I of Russia induced the British government to bail him out, leaving his son free to begin the grand projects, including the Clifton suspension bridge...
...Mary’s got me to stop now. In what place are you happiest? Somerset cricket ground. What ambitions do you still have?...
...Hode large Long Tom Nigel and Mary Chapman have been hand-throwing stoneware pots for years, working from their village home near Canterbury in what is very much a cottage industry operation....
...Matthew Wilson is a garden writer and broadcaster and the managing director of Clifton Nurseries, London, www.clifton.co.uk...
...“You used to be pretty much certain of a profit after a couple of years,” says Mary Ryan of Property Vision....
...Far better is the picture hanging next to it, the Australian Clifton Pugh’s image of the writer Naomi Mitchison....
...If you look into the churchyard of St Mary Redcliffe you will find a bit of iron girder stuck crookedly in the grass: it was hurled there by a bomb explosion in an air raid, and a plaque tells you so....
...We lunched in Pangborne, the home of Kenneth Grahame, who wrote Wind in the Willows, and stayed in Marlow where Mary Shelley completed Frankenstein....
...At Craik’s house I asked his wife, Mary, what she thought motivated her husband, and she said: ”He gets fanatical about things, don’t you?”...
...Mary Philips’s assertive mezzo served equally well in haranguing Wotan as Fricka and in entreating Brünnhilde as Waltraute....
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