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...Kudzanai-Violet Hwami has created a vibrant print (edition of 35, £3,573) with Avant Arte in support of LGBTQ+-led arts, health and social action charity Queercircle....
...Mr Fothergill’s Seeds near Newmarket has a big range of vegetable seeds (mr-fothergills.co.uk) but also sells flower seeds and owns Johnsons Seeds (johnsons-seeds.com), which has a range selected by the...
...There are hints of jasmine and Parma violet. The next Archie Rose release, due later this year, will be a single malt smoked with Stringybark, also known as Mountain Ash....
...It is offered by Thompson and Morgan, Mr Fothergills, Johnsons Seeds and Suttons, among others....
...Then the clerisy started to peddle magical cures, such as camel’s urine and violet leaf oil....
...Cherise Adams-Burnett was superbly authoritative on a risk-taking delivery of her torch song original, “Violet Lights.”...
...I want a toaster that looks like a 1995 Range Rover, not a Boris Johnson-endorsed bus....
...They include himself, as well as Giovanni Palandrani (aka Aquaria), Matthew Sanderson (Detox), James Andrew Leyva (Valentina) and Paul Jason Dardo (Violet Chachki)....
...It wasn’t like she was a shrinking violet or anything in law school. But I just remember looking at her one day and thinking: where did she come from?”...
...body-bearing cut-outs at Louis Vuitton, while languid silks — the sort that feel good on hot summer skin — can be found billowing on bias cuts at Roksanda or bunched into Grecian body-skimming folds at Ulla Johnson...
...No one gets anywhere in public life by impersonating a shrinking violet, yet rehearsing the injustices they overcame is almost as dull as their triumphant progress through the corridors of power....
...I think most pointedly Violet Effingham in Phineas Finn basically articulates an option portfolio strategy as her way of solving this problem....
...“Spin Drawing for Women’s Equality” (2015) goes on sale at Phillips’ New Now auction in London on Wednesday and is a trademark Hirst, spun in the original Suffragette colours of green, white and violet....
...Amand recommends the violet-blue Quamash, Camassia esculenta, and I think it is a royal favourite too....
...Though I loved the still youthful, bramble and violet- scented 2007 vintage, the star wine for me was the 1952 colheita, with its concentrated raisiny richness and astonishing freshness and finesse....
...In Empires of the Dead, which has been shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize, the biographer David Crane sets out to disinter a forgotten reputation....
...No shrinking violet is Rhee. I await her arrival in some trepidation....
...Albert Sands Southworth and Josiah Johnson Hawes applied powdery pigment to a stunning 1850 portrait of a young girl, gilding her hair, dusting her downy cheek with a pink glow, and dyeing her dress violet...
...Josephine Johnson, manager of Argyle Pink Diamonds, part of Rio Tinto, says: “Many hard-nosed investors are surprised by the emotional connection they makes with these remarkable gems, once they see them...
...When she once called a flower’s colour “violet”, Lloyd reproached her for being imprecise about purple. So she asked him what was a violet flower and he replied, straight off, “Tibouchina”....
...Les Bulles D’Agathe (£15), his violet-infused bubbles were unveiled at this year’s World Expo, currently running in Shanghai....
...Later that evening, he meets an older officer in a brothel next to a grey beach covered in “violet-tinted jellyfish’’, and the two men scarcely speak....
...He points out that Truman showed leadership by firing Louis Johnson, his former top fundraiser, as secretary of defence early on during the Korean war....
...Others – GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson – have been active in purchasing ”over-the-counter” businesses in recent years. But that is of little use in this situation....
...This provides significantly cheaper distribution than the brandconscious methods of of Bausch & Lomb, Johnson & Johnson and other ophthalmic giants....
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