Hints and tips:
...One old-fashioned dish involves a braised fish surrounded on the serving platter with a line of these tiny bulbs, like a string of pearls....
...The retail chain had been the junior partner with US investment group Davidson Kempner, but had privately played down its chances of winning the auction....
...“Grant Shapps thinks he’s going down in history as man who handed [Mrs May] the pearl-handled revolver,” she also wrote. “He got one thing right: he is going down.”...
...“It’s less dangerous than a Harley-Davidson,” says Duguid, “and I’m too tired to have an affair.”...
...Recent purchases include the Adam and Eve ring, fittingly depicting the world’s very first married couple, and her ball crusher ring, in which a pearl is squeezed by red-fingernail-tipped talons....
...I relax by riding a Harley-Davidson – we’ll be going to several rallies later this year....
...The ceiling was painted by artist Alex Davidson, while the furniture consists of 19th-century antiques covered with new and old fabrics alike....
...appreciate the salty tang of a Manzanilla with their grilled prawns or octopus “carpaccio” but you practically have to wear a cardigan and a tweed jacket with leather elbow patches – or the female twinset-with-pearls...
...Ultimately, however, the team comprising Jondeau and male model Baptiste Giabiconi won first prize, hoisting their pearl-encrusted Chanel cup high into the air....
...The worst-affected countries are South Korea and China, particularly the ports around the Pearl River delta....
...Burying the Bones: Pearl Buck’s Life in China, by Hilary Spurling, Profile RRP£15 This is a biographical masterpiece that unpicks the vulnerability behind the inscrutable persona of the Nobel Prize-winning...
...Voltaire: A Life , by Ian Davidson, Profile RRP£25 There is no shortage of biographies of Voltaire, but this is one of the best....
...It is the perfect primer to A Girl for All Seasons, which follows up with handy hints on doing the season, getting a ring on your finger and looking after your pearls....
...Mary Ann Davidson is Oracle’s chief security officer...
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