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...Lauren Young’s fruity Baba and Robin Bailey’s Sellem were well in the picture....
...I thought she meant fully flowering roses and chided her but I forgot they were “crisped up” and she silenced me with a photo of her recent deadheads looking decidedly like post-cup Earl Grey bags....
...As well as its first tour with more generous funding, the company has a new general director in Robin Norton-Hale....
...Odey was known for another predilection: hiring “earls and girls”....
...Then, following his degree at Cambridge university, where he read music and studied composition with Robin Holloway, he worked for a time as a freelance accompanist and repetiteur, before becoming music...
...Many have ascribed it to the talented William Chambers, who designed and decorated the earl’s nearby residence, now known as Parkstead House....
...Aston has her own version of the Earl of Dunmore’s make-do plum pudding....
...Robin Barr, the head of the family dynasty behind Scottish soft drink Irn-Bru, is leaving the board of the group that makes the beverage after 58 years....
...Gill’s late father, the trumpet-playing, jazz musician/bandleader Earl “Darby” Gill....
...It came from acorns brought back by the Earl of Powis, whose son was probably one of Robert Darwin’s patients and later, certainly, his debtor. Gardening and doctoring often go helpfully together....
...While you take in Brooks’s Palladian façade by Henry Holland, think of how the sandwich was reputedly invented here by the eponymous earl not wanting to interrupt a particularly intense gambling session...
...In the 1820s, the third Earl of Egremont had these reduced. “I will cut off their legs,” he remarked. “I do not want their petticoats.”...
...The pile ascended in order of social significance: answers to queries from members of the public at the bottom; then the bank; then the Earl of Snowdon and so on....
...In my bedroom I dress every day beside a picture of the Earl of Harewood in c1830, astride a fine bay horse with his great house gleaming in the background and his foxhounds drawing a hillside behind him...
...As well as La Grotta Ices, we sourced second-hand copies of the original ice-cream bible, Ice Creams, Sorbets and Gelati: The Definitive Guide (2010) by Caroline and Robin Weir....
...Since 2006, Bannermania has been most evident in the walled garden of the Earl of Arundel beside Arundel Castle in Sussex....
...At Barracca in Earl Shilton, “additional catering (such as High Tea) is considered on request”. At 109 Brook Street in Wymeswold, “superb home made cakes are served with beverages”....
...The FT’s Robin Lane Fox, in an article this August, wondered whether it was the Netherlands’ lack of grassy road verges that meant the Dutch enjoyed them in their gardens so much....
...As it owes its name to an early founder of Kew, John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, it is fun to see it excellently represented again at Kew by Noriko Fujita from its Japanese homeland....
...“Earls Court’s regeneration, just 10 minutes’ walk from South Kensington, will have a huge impact,” says Robin Paterson of Sotheby’s International Realty....
...Almost 200 years earlier John Singleton Copley’s huge 1778 scene of the Earl of Chatham collapsing in the House of Lords struck a slyly monarchist note....
...From 1751 onwards he worked here for the Earl of Coventry and only here can you see a church he designed, still in sound shape, as well as the big house, also Brown’s work....
...Ludovic Hunter-Tilney unionchapel.org.uk, 020 7226 3750 Bombay Bicycle Club, December 13, Earl’s Court, London The wrecking balls are poised to reduce Earl’s Court to rubble in order to address London...
...SH orangetreetheatre.co.uk, 020 8940 3633, March 11- April 11 The Ruling Class, Trafalgar Studios, London James McAvoy’s central performance as the half-mad 14th Earl of Gurney — who imagines himself...
...The previous earl and countess bequeathed her a difficult challenge. Below the house’s side entrance there was a lawn but not a garden....
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