MARK JONES’ TOP SKI PICKS September 19, 2010 SALOMON GEISHA £450 At higher speeds this women’s ski has the stability to feel secure, but is still soft enough to be playful and easy to use. It’s a hard ski to fault. It’s not great on the piste, but for back country it’s perfect. www.salomon.com FISCHER WATEA 98 BC TT £649 inc bindings The [...]
UK HOTEL REVIEW: THE GROVE September 19, 2010 IF ASKED, I wouldn’t list Watford in my top ten destinations for a romantic getaway. Yet after negotiating a swarm of roundabouts we were cruising through the breathtaking grounds of the Grove hotel, flanked by 300 acres of exquisitely-kept English gardens. This revamped 18th century mansion still throws up a sense of its lavish past, [...]
The seaside bohemia that’s in your backyard September 16, 2010 EVEN the most devoted Londoners can tire of the big smoke – especially those raising families. But rather than heading to established commuter havens in Kent, Hampshire and Hertfordshire to pursue your pastoral dream, you could do far worse than consider Brighton. It’s cheaper, cheerful and offers a totally unique combination of sea, beautiful countryside [...]
FOCUS ON: HAMMERSMITH September 16, 2010 OVERSTONE RD Price: £264,950 A one-bedroom flat on the raised ground floor of a mid-terrace Victorian house. It is situated between Hammersmith and Brackenbury Village. It also has a reception room, a kitchen and a shower room. The property does lack outside space but it is close to Ravenscourt Park. Contact: Winkworth on 020 7371 [...]
PROPERTY NEWS September 16, 2010 FOODIE BRITS FORK OUT FOR KITCHEN UPGRADES A poor economic climate combined with the popularity of television cookery shows has encouraged homeowners to fork out almost twice as much on their kitchens than on any other part of the home, property website Rightmove said earlier this week. Its survey found that over the past year [...]
BUYING September 16, 2010 MANAGING PARTNER AT BLACK BRICK Q.Dear Camilla, there has been a fair amount of negative news in the papers relating to property prices. Do you think prices are going to crash again like they did in 2008? A.With so much conflicting data and house price indices, trying to determine what is happening with house prices [...]
Girl power: what makes the perfect bachelorette pad September 16, 2010 AS the number of high-earning single women purchasing property steadily rises, it’s fair to say we’ve entered the age of the bachelorette pad. “There has been a 15 per cent increase in the number of girls buying property alone in London over the last five years,” says George Franks, sales director of Douglas & Gordon [...]
What to wear on a shoot September 16, 2010 CITY FASHION NEWS hackett comes to canary wharf There was a time when Hackett seemed to be chiefly the preserve of rugby types – Johnny Wilkinson was the face of its marketing, after all. Right now, though, it’s a brand with some debonair zip in its step, thanks to the popularity of old-fashioned tailoring and [...]
STYLE COUNCIL September 16, 2010 WITH eight trade shows a year, there are no equivalents to the fashion industry. I can hardly believe it’s time again for London to be invaded by the world’s fashionistas; it feels like two seconds ago that I was bashing my way through the crowds in February to see quilted jackets, gothic flowers and zebra [...]
Ferrell and Wahlberg buddy up September 16, 2010 Film THE OTHER GUYS Cert: 12A THOUGH Will Ferrell has yet to better 2004’s spoof comedy Anchorman in terms of the goofy humour with which he’s most associated, it’s fair to say that few others have succeeded in that task either. Since then, Ferrell has seemed content subscribing to the “stick to what you’re good [...]