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...In it, Daubigny’s widow is standing and so is a cat, painted blue, with such a long tail that I mistook it for a fox....
...v=Ae1lCrnsm3k Robin’s outdoor winter suggestions for the UK are: the winter flowering cherry tree (Prunus subhirtella autumnalis)....
...From the 1920s onwards she worked for John D Rockefeller Jr, planning a landscape of native plants along the roads he was laying on the island....
...Elton John pounds out the piano honky-tonk on “Get Close” and “Live by the Sword”....
...When you plant these new clematis, go to a big garden centre and buy a bag of John Innes no 3 compost and another of horticultural grit, not gravel....
...“There is a problem with the Bretton Woods institutions and there is a need to reform these institutions.”...
...two cascades created by sinking copper “V”s into concrete....
...His Lily of the Valley designs are exclusive to the V&A, as are the giclée prints of illustrations by Beatrix Potter and Edward Lear....
...“I heard John say, ‘Fancy that view every morning.’” John’s grave is in Hubberholme. Gordon lays fresh flowers on it every week....
...Courtney Love, musicianDesperate Characters by Paula Fox; King Kong Theory by Virginie Despentes, Recollections of My Non-Existence and Wanderlust by Rebecca Solnit; Ways of Seeing by John Berger [Desperate...
...including BMW, John Lewis and Virgin Media O2....
...The building’s features — such as its V-shaped roof and wood-beamed ceilings — are typical of Lautner’s mid-century style....
...Once used for fox-hunt meets and political congresses (Walpole made it a powerhouse of Whiggery), it is now an “everything room”....
...The following year, in November 1978, Schwartz was due to be in Rome to photograph the new pope, John Paul II....
...John Berger, who eulogised the lifestyle of subsistence farmers in the French Pyrenees in 1979’s Pig Earth, would have appreciated the rhythms of village life as it still was in the early 2000s: the set-in-stone...
...In contrast, George V and George VI died in winter: some of the 305,000 who saw the latter lying in state had to put up with light snow....
...Everyone in the house jokes that I only play Elton John, Dua Lipa and Lizzo on repeat. The place that means a lot to me is Paris....
...While following his father George V’s coffin in procession, Edward VIII recalled seeing “a flash of light dancing along the pavement”....
...It is followed by a fantasy room, an Orientalist fever dream of exotic tiles around a burbling fountain, overlooked by a pierced wood mashrabiya — a fragment of Damascus in Holland Park....
...In 1973, with the Roe v....
...Trump, in an interview with Fox News, praised the decision, saying: “In the end, this is something that will work out for everybody.”...
...It’s a discipline”, a concern that is also touched on in headings throughout the narrative, such as “Surface v depth” and “Real v fake.”...
...He loves it,” says Strong, the former head of the V&A and author of some waspish diaries in which few of the rich, famous and powerful are spared....
...In 1607 John Gerard, author of the big, still fascinating Herball, became Master of the Company....
...Never mind base human nature: the bones are there and so is the willow wood. I have never been so enraptured by relics....
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