MEN: IT’S TIME TO SAY YES TO THOSE MOOBS December 17, 2009 Jeremy Hazlehurst Style Counsel FOR men, there are sure-fire signs that you are getting older. You start getting an urge to ruffle the hair of young boys. Everybody in the England football team is younger than you. And then there is the inevitability of getting fatter. In their 20s, many men can’t put on weight [...]
Q&A: RENTING December 17, 2009 Russell Hunt MANAGING DIRECTOR, PROPERTY HUNT Q.We’ve been putting off upscaling to a bigger family home, but don’t want to wait much longer. When should we move? AIt’s probably a mistake to wait too long and over-predict the market. If you look back to the first quarter of 2009 there were lots of good deals [...]
Cosy up in your house this winter December 17, 2009 1 Louis Philippe Day Bed, Grange, from £3,489, 020 7935 7000 2 Stag head candelabra, Joanna Wood, £94, www.joannawood.co.uk 3 Traditional balls wreath, Quintessentially Flowers, £75, www.quintessentiallyflowers.com 4 Ravello five arm candelabra, Heal’s, £220, www.heals.co.uk 5 Little red dot teapot, Fairmont and Main, £22, www.johnlewis.com 6 Grey shetland throw, John Lewis, £130, www.johnlewis.com 7 Hot [...]
FOCUS ON: NOTTING HILL December 17, 2009 SHREWSBURY MEWS, W2 Price: £695,000 Located near the junction of Westbourne Park Road and Chepstowe Road, this 900sq ft traditional mews house has a first floor reception, two bedrooms, and two bathrooms, one en suite. It is close to bars and restaurants, and Westbourne Grove Tube station. Contact: Hamptons Notting Hill, 020 7034 0404 KENSINGTON [...]
Camden: an urban hotspot with leafy streets December 17, 2009 THOSE who consider Camden a gritty choice may want to think again. “Prices dipped in the credit crunch,” says Ed Robinson, of the year-old Camden office of Foxtons. “But they’re already higher than they were before it, and they’re going to rise next year. There’s limited stock and a lot of demand.” The spring opening [...]
What to read this Christmas December 16, 2009 Thrillers THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST BY STIEG LARSSON Maclehose, £18.99 The third and final novel in the late Swedish crime writer’s hugely popular Millennium Trilogy – all three books have been published posthumously. Computer hacker and investigator Lisbeth Salander’s third outing is no less electrifying than the previous two, as she tries [...]
OUT OF OFFICE December 15, 2009 THE HABIT OF ART Alan Bennett’s new play for the National Theatre may not have the universal appeal of The History Boys, but it’s a hilarious, searingly clever piece nevertheless. Richard Griffiths is on terrifically droll form as actor Fitz, playing the poet WH Auden meeting in old age with the composer Benjamin Britten in the [...]
Up the hatch December 15, 2009 WE’VE tested some super-hot hatches on these pages, most recently Honda’s Civic Type R Mugen and earlier in the year Ford’s Focus RS, both of which are stunning performers. Here we have another. The preceding version of this car, the Renault Clio 197 Cup, had brilliant agility and grip and was a riot of fun, [...]
OTHER FUN & HEALTHY THINGS December 14, 2009 SEX According to a study published in the journal Biological Psychology, those who have regular penetrative sex deal better with stress than those who abstain or who engage in other sexual activity. Scientists at Wilkes University in America also found that those who had sex once or twice a week had higher levels of immunoglobulin [...]
Why fizz is good for you December 14, 2009 JOHN Mortimer, the author who created the scuzzy lawyer Rumpole of the Bailey, used to say that champagne was the secret to a long life. Mortimer drank a glass of fizz every morning, before settling down to work on his plays and novels. He lived to a sprightly and active 85, and was publishing books [...]