Hints and tips:
...“When I woke up in hospital I said, ‘Where’s my jeans, I’d better get going, it’s Olympia [now LIHS] next week.’...
...US corporates spend roughly twice what European companies do on capex and R&D (as a share of cash flow)....
...“Before, I’d be starting seeds March to June but my gardens were super-weedy....
...Still, there were much darker tableaux to be found in another Cannes highlight: Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar’s Into the Hairy....
...If those gorillas didn’t want to interact with Freya they’d tell me with their body language before she goes in.”...
...P Soleil d’Or gives bright yellow berries on red stems, and P rogersiana Flava has glossy yellow fruits....
...He also consults for Garesio in Serralunga d’Alba. Colombo’s 2022 Langhe Nebbiolo has more class than many much more expensive Barolos, though his 2020 Barolo was the star of his range....
...Douglas looked as though he’d thrown on something found at the bottom of Sharon Stone’s wardrobe, the morning after the night before....
...Job moves John Lewis has named Jason Tarry as chair, succeeding Sharon White. He previously spent more than 30 years working for Tesco....
...“I never thought I’d end up where I ended up,” Tarry recounted in a 2020 conversation with media platform Worth of Mouth....
...During its heyday, Baldwin’s Saint-Paul home was a sanctuary for artists — especially black Americans in the twilight of their lives, from Miles Davis to Josephine Baker....
...“We’d like to see the government nurturing a homegrown plant industry,” says Curtis-Machin, suggesting tax breaks for nurseries that sign up to Plant Healthy, a voluntary biosecurity certification scheme...
...“You’ve got the two biggest beasts in the middle market, you’d be forgiven for thinking they can’t both do well [in food] at the same time, or can they?” said Hyman....
...Sharon Duncan-Brewster is an athletic Queen Odysseus, shown setting off from Ithaca to fight the Trojans at the urgent prompting of war-goddess Athena, leaving a baby son, Telemachus....
...It was also here that Sharon was inspired to found Hewi....
...Waking up in hospital one weekend in July 2017, Davis was informed by doctors that he’d lost sight in one eye in an accident....
...I have to negotiate with a tyrannical maître d’ to get a stage view. Someone at my table orders a shrimp cocktail; the table behind me drinking Martinis....
...“I’d be shocked if they don’t do a sizeable AI deal this year, because there’s an AI arms race going on, and Apple is not going to be on the outside looking in.”...
...“I thought I’d be designing chairs and lighting; music was a pipe dream,” he says....
...“It’d be one thing if Israel had a popular prime minister. Maintaining this conflict might save him a trial....
...I’m thinking they’d go nicely in the bedroom. The beauty staple I’m never without is a hot shower....
...Inexperience was much in the UK news last week after Dame Sharon White, boss of the troubled John Lewis retail group, said she would step down after five years in the job....
...We fall into an embrace or, as he’d probably describe it, “a polite hug”....
...I’d love to own one of her energising and mesmerising line drawings in sap-green watercolour ink, which were first shown in London back in 2017....
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