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...There, under a makeshift lean-to, were some of the friends he’d spent the past decade with, both on and off the job. Waif-thin men with hollow, flighty eyes....
...Yet even here there was a silver lining in the form of an incredible restaurant: the Whitehouse in Lochaline is one of the best places to eat seafood in Scotland: small, intimate and superbly well run with...
...Wearing orange silk trousers, a pink silk top with scalloped neck, floppy cuffs and flame stripes, and glittering pearly trainers to match her silver pixie crop, Balshaw, 47, looks as if she has dressed...
...My personal style signifier is a men’s IWC Portofino watch given to me by my husband for my 40th birthday. It is minimal and beautiful, with a simple black face and black crocodile strap....
...On a clear day, it offers a view of a bridge that links Japan’s main island to Shikoku via a series of stepping stone specks of land....
...A silver locket inscribed with a sentimental message? Or will George skip jewellery and bestow a coffee maker on his new wife instead?...
...Start-up company Kovert has also made waves with rings, necklaces and bracelets (from £290), designed to resemble conventional fine jewellery but set with ceramic “removable” stones that vibrate with alerts...
...its clear diagrams and straightforward illustrations....
...Shakespeare transformed drama and poetry and immortalised England as “this precious stone set in the silver sea”. The Strong creed is not at all afraid of restating what was once well known....
...One wears a nipple ring. Another made hamburgers in a Sydney café before he became one of China’s richest men. Others are financiers who would barely know a solar cell from a sunspot....
...Work is also being given the silver screen treatment....
...Vividly portrayed is the uncomfortable figure of Edward Heath, one of the grumpiest men ever to have occupied 10 Downing Street....
...From the inside, it looks like a mansion with chandeliers, ornate stone columns and paintings on the ceiling; bas-relief figures decorate the ceiling’s trim....
...clear-cut”....
...And that’s all it takes: a few glimpses of a wide-rimmed felt fedora and it’s clear Indiana Jones is back....
...stones; circle-printed handkerchief dresses that looked as if Sonia Delauney had become stuck in a time machine; and weird prairie-styled shawls embroidered with concentric rings of taffeta that were thrown...
...Unlike Prince or the Rolling Stones, who also packed the O2 arena this summer, U2’s new albums still routinely top the charts....
...A few years ago on Radio 4’s Front Row, Mark Lawson conducted a memorable interview with the author Sid Smith who had won the Whitbread First Novel award for his book Something Like a House....
...It’s a Sunday afternoon, and in a private drawing room at the Lanesborough hotel a sommelier is arranging a couple of bottles of Krug champagne in a silver ice bucket....
...The only hint of his shopping empire of 50,000 employees is a handful of retailing awards, including a miniature silver shopping trolley, and a few shelves of ring binders marked with hand-written names...
...I get my suits tailor-made for S$700-800, Which is about £250, and my shirts for S$70, about £25 – how are you going to compete with that?...
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