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...Nick Drake: The Life by Richard Morton Jack (John Murray Press/Hachette) “I felt sorry for him because all he seemed able to do was mumble”: this reminiscence shows the challenge Nick Drake presents to...
...With the help of local carpenters Nick Simco and Jacob Habron, stonemason Gary Balman and his father Tony Short (a builder who specialised in historical homes), and 12 months of hard graft, Bonfield started...
...Carpenter was an early contestant in the space race, who in 1962 became the second American to orbit the earth (three times in total) and, it is said, the first to eat solid food in space....
...Val Kilmer had already played rock god Jim Morrison and, perhaps more importantly, Nick Rivers in Top Secret....
...Nick Ferrand, an estate agent at Abode Italian Property, says costs for quality renovations in Umbria and Tuscany start from about €1,500 per sq m....
...People remember the Thatcher party in Alan Hollinghurst’s The Line of Beauty, but Toby’s 21st birthday party a few chapters earlier is the better one: inner sanctum, intimidating element (when Nick wanders...
...Individual efforts, meanwhile, include the 8,000sq m workshop near Paris run by Carpenters Workshop Gallery – a leading name in collectable design – to uphold the skills of the French arts décoratifs, and...
...They are seemingly at ease — despite the noise of technicians and carpenters working — when they step outdoors to say hello....
...And the carpenters were acting, as far as we can tell, of their own volition.”...
...His father Jack worked as a ship’s carpenter during the glory days of shipbuilding, while his mother Georgina helped pay the bills as a book-keeper....
...The Beach Boys and Aretha Franklin joined the queue for the services of Reedman and his production partner, Nick Patrick....
...Training and skills in short supply At the Can of Ham, subcontractors responsible for the ground works also bear the cost of pumping out the water if there is a lot of rain, said Nick Moore, Mace’s project...
...She raised the idea of a mini street library to house them on a local community group’s Facebook page, then enlisted the help of a carpenter friend to build it....
...Nick Serota looked at a derelict power station in Bankside and saw Tate Modern.”...
...Nick Buttle has built homes for a population of almost half a billion over the past decade....
...My incisions — minor, like nicks left by an absent-minded carpenter rather than actual scars — healed weeks ago. I’m back to walking at a brisk pace, can swim, cycle, dance (badly but joyously)....
...But Nick Stephen of Interest in Wine, Julien’s UK importer, says he never has any difficulty selling either La Fleur Morange (total production about 5,500 bottles a year) nor the more approachable Mathilde...
...Ominously for the party, however, members of a Financial Times focus group on Wednesday described leader Nick Clegg as “disappointing”, “toxic” and a “dead man walking”....
...They are pathetically dismal figures,” said Nick Raynsford, MP and joint chairman....
...Nick Coe of Rawrdenim.com says crowdfunding and social media have also been crucial in enabling artisan products and consumers to find each other....
...The Paris Property Group (PPG) is offering a split-level loft in a former carpenter’s workshop on the Rue des Petits Hôtels in the 10th arrondissement, close to the Eurostar terminal at the Gare du Nord....
...“Many things are custom-made by blacksmiths and carpenters....
...“I did a sketch on a napkin, and then a great carpenter built all this stuff. We made it look pirate-supply-like, with planks sold by the foot....
...A similar piece is “Corridor Installation (Nick Wilder Installation)” from 1970, in which visitors are filmed as they walk through....
...Some, such as the web pessimists Nick Carr and Andrew Green, think things can only get worse....
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