A new haven for gentlemen December 13, 2010 DESPITE the growing popularity of beauty products aimed at men, the prevailing wisdom in the grooming industry is that the majority of bloke-orientated creams, cleansers, colognes and aftershaves are bought for men by women. Some retailers put that figure as high as 70 per cent. While we’re more used to slathering ourselves in lotions and [...]
FIT IN THE CITY December 13, 2010 FITNESS & DIET EXPERT 1. CHOOSE YOUR POISON WISELY: UNLESS YOU WANT AN OVERHANG like Johnny Vegas, go easy on the beer. An eight pint binge means you’re taking in a whopping 1,600 empty calories – that’s the calorie-equivalent of a very large takeaway. Spirits with diet drinks and champagne make for better waistline choices. [...]
OUT OF OFFICE December 13, 2010 LOVE STORY – THE MUSICAL It’s extraordinary in this day and age to think that Love Story, the schmaltzy 1970 film that gave the world Ryan O’Neal in a duffel coat, and the phrase “love means never having to say you’re sorry,” swept the Golden Globes and caused grown adults to weep into their popcorn. More [...]
Journey into the mighty history of Samarkand December 12, 2010 AROUND Tashkent airport, giant hoardings proclaimed in English: “Uzbekistan Airways Wish You Good Luck”. It might have been more unsettling to read that message driving into Heathrow before our departure. In fact, we’d had an incident-free flight on Uzbekistan Airways to Uzbekistan’s capital. Tashkent sounds endlessly exotic but isn’t really. Much was destroyed by a [...]
Focus on Tunbridge Wells December 9, 2010 BISHOPS DOWN ROAD Price: £198,000 This one bedroom ground floor apartment is located within the development of Chartwell Lodge. The property is a short walk from the town centre where there are excellent shopping facilities, including the Royal Victoria Place shopping center and leisure centers. Facilities include a fitted kitchen and bathroom, a mirror wardrobe, [...]
LETTING December 9, 2010 Ceo of the uk’s largest online lettings agent upad.co.uk Q.My tenants have painted one of the rooms in the house I let them black. What do I do? A.(This question comes from a landlord who has discovered that one of the rooms in a house he rents out to private tenants has been painted black. [...]
PROPERTY NEWS December 9, 2010 DEMAND FOR PROPERTY AT QUARTER’S HIGH Demand for property is on the rise for the first time in four months, according to the National Association of Estate Agents. House-hunters increased in November, attracted to falling prices, while supply remains static. Close to Christmas, there are usually fewer sales to avoid family disruption; people also tend [...]
Live in romantic style overlooking Piccadilly itself December 9, 2010 IF YOU stroll down any of London’s busiest and most famous boulevards, you can generally look up above the shops and restaurants to floors of offices filling what were once grand residences. The opportunity to actually live in one of these places is rare enough, and to live overlooking the street that epitomises the glamorous [...]
Narnia’s heroes take to the waves December 9, 2010 Film THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER Cert: PG In the third of the Chronicles of Narnia series CS Lewis divested himself of half the Pevensie siblings, concentrating instead on the younger two, Edmund and Lucy. That’s good news for the film adaptation, since Skandar Key9nes (Edmund) and Georgie Henley (Lucy) are the better actors [...]
ALSO OUT THIS WEEKEND December 9, 2010 FILM SOMEWHERE But not just anywhere: Sophia Coppola satirises Hollywood, starring Stephen Dorf. A SERBIAN FILM A dark, dark journey into explicit violence, with satirical pretensions that don’t add up. ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE Excellent documentary about life in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge. DVD INCEPTION The year’s most inventive – and enjoyably perplexing – action [...]