Hints and tips:
...This is the work that Hebborn claimed he’d redrawn, after a drunk porter left it too close to a radiator, the work that was later blasted with a shotgun....
...Disktrasa linen dish cloth, £14As a crumb-wiping obsessive and enthusiastic washer-upper (did I mention I am a former kitchen porter?)...
...The only gardening you’d do in these clogs is on the moon. Yet this isn’t to say that these aren’t desirable....
...A kitchen porter has worked there for two decades; a back-of-house attendant has been there for more than 30 years....
...“We’d grown, we’d built our infrastructure, but we needed to be bigger,” said Newton....
...Carlyle had no hesitation about returning to the role of Gaz, who now works as a hospital porter but is still a pathological blagger....
...I replied that, in that case, the best grade he’d get would be a C — or maybe a B if he was very lucky. “What’s wrong with a B?” he said....
...It reminded me a lot of the dim sum tea-houses I’d visited in Hong Kong, in that there are no reservations....
...One colleague told her she’d only been promoted because she was a woman....
...I’ve just entered an Amtrak “bedroom”, and it confronts me not so much with glamour and mystique as the claustrophobia of a hospital stay....
...Georgina Porter, a hospital doctor whose daughter’s sixth-form college registered the worst results in its history this year, said she was shocked by the research that showed how much small independent schools...
...Candle sales at Selfridges are up 54 per cent since the start of lockdown, while Net-a-Porter saw a 130 per cent year-on-year increase when lockdown began in March....
...It was the first independent travel I’d ever done — a long way from my childhood holidays on the west coast of Ireland....
...In Tokyo, there was such a stampede, we were locked in a basement. And in Taiwan, 30 people ended up in hospital.” Anya Hindmarch pauses. “It was mental, a really unbelievable project.”...
...A recent addition to our cottage was a glittering grotto chair with a shell for a back and dolphins for legs (pictured above). Frankly, we’d never seen anything more us....
...They’re maybe not the generation who’d invest in a $3,000 jacket. But they might buy a $450 T-shirt.” The new client demands a different approach....
...For those on low incomes, including London’s reserve army of cleaners, shop assistants, hospital porters and the like, the only option is a dismal private rental or social housing....
...Stylishly packaged protein powders and probiotics by brands such as The Nue Co (£55), The Super Elixir and Neat Nutrition (£24) are stocked on Net-a-Porter and Mr Porter, so you can care for your gut even...
...I’ve been offered a beautiful botanical dessert service by a reader who was left it as a legacy and thought it more me than her. Something I wrote brought someone out of a coma in his hospital bed....
...Initially, Mr Alessandri wanted to be a fashion designer and wrote to Giorgio Armani, Italy’s king of pret-a-porter, in the early 1980s seeking a job. Mr Armani never wrote back....
...Also good were navy crinkled knits, as if they’d been left at the bottom of the laundry pile — great for gentlemen such as me who don’t own an iron. Ah, for some calm....
...Syria’s production, estimated at about 50,000 b/d today, is marginal in the context of 90m b/d of global supply....
...Dylan Thomas is alleged to have downed 18 glasses of whisky in his room before falling into a coma and dying in a nearby hospital....
...T-shirts are to springtime what floral-bedecked hats are to this week’s Chelsea Flower Show – but you’d never see the former at the latter, a haven reserved for little lace lunch suits or rose-bedecked frocks...
...Does Net-a-Porter ring you up to say: “An ivory wool and cotton pique riding coat? My dear you are a dark horse!” They do not....
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