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...This July he launched Red Jane, an ambitious bakery with interiors that resemble an art gallery (a collaboration with his friend the celebrated designer Michael Anastassiades), in a midcentury industrial...
...Another collection, The Terriers, includes mules, sandals and clogs covered in pink, violet or red curly Kalgan fur....
...Canadian soprano Jane Archibald sings the title role and Jonathan Cohen conducts....
...I would add the tap-rooted tall Campanula lactiflora in its lilac-blue forms and in its lower-growing deep violet Prichard’s Variety....
...Grayson had gained experience of growing while working at Heckfield Place alongside Jane Scotter of Fern Verrow Farm. A sensitivity to the environment underpins her theatrical style....
...experience the same buzz: so every spring on my podcast On The Ledge I run a “sowalong”, encouraging listeners to propagate seeds of indoor plants, from cacti and succulents to Swiss cheese plants and African violets...
...Jane’s Singapore Tours — a company launched by Jane Iyer, a British woman who first visited Singapore in 1963 — offers small group or private walking tours to explore the city’s history, culture and heritage...
...Power moves were also made by Jane Fraser, who is taking over as Citigroup’s chief executive and PNC’s Bill Demchak, a JPMorgan alum who has led the Pittsburgh bank’s ascent to the top of the regional bank...
...Wood pigeons munch brassicas, but the soft grey and violet sheen of their plumage is pretty. Moles make mincemeat of lawns, but who could stay angry at a velveteen creature with an endearing face?...
...The title, March Violets, referred to the Nazis’ disdainful term for those reluctantly converted to their murderous creed....
...It was an Orion’s Belt of stars — Parton, plus Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda — that elevated it to the level of enduring classic....
...For me, the scent of early autumn is the violet-sweet whiff of raspberry jam (most heavenly of all jams when it is made well) and the scent of late autumn is the delicate pink quince jam — not too sugary...
...They have included overacting in parodies of films such as What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?...
...“I wanted to build a poison garden because I felt it was far more interesting than an apothecary garden,” says Jane Percy, the duchess....
...The shrubs and reeds encompass samphire, sea lavender and sea aster, known in Italian as settembrini for the violet flowers that blossom in autumn and turn the waterscape into a queenly carpet....
...Perrone’s first plant was an African Violet that she nursed back from the dead....
...As the joke goes: “Roses are red, violets are blue, I’m a creative, here to displace you.” The most pressing headache is political....
...Mr O’Sullivan said that Mr Urumov, who was described to the court as “no shrinking violet” and a “forceful personality”, told senior management at Otkritie they were wrong when they queried the warrant trades...
...I think most pointedly Violet Effingham in Phineas Finn basically articulates an option portfolio strategy as her way of solving this problem....
...In 1857 he met Jane Burden, whom he married in 1859....
...Bridget Jones nodded to Jane Austen, Tony Benn to Richard Crossman. At what point does the apparently frank recording of events become the fashioning of things to suit personal prejudice?...
...In mid-May I marvelled at huge bushes of wondrous blue-violet Rhododendron augustinii above carpets of bluebells in the superb woodland garden at Bowood House in Wiltshire, a yearly place of pilgrimage for...
...Miniature poodles called Daisy and Violet and they are nine years old....
...But their rural idyll starts to crumble when Violet admits having been physically “enhanced” as a child....
...Mr Bryant-Heron told the jury in his closing speech that Ms Casburn was “no shrinking violet” but her motivation in making the phone call was money as there was “no resource issue”....
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