Jazz up your garden so you can get the most out of it for summer April 26, 2012 Agarden should be as important as any room in your house. Gardens are the space between you and the outside world, a private haven and public display, so they should reflect both guises while also providing you with an environment that delights and inspires, every day of the year. To make the most of your [...]
NEED TO KNOW | AREA INSIGHT April 26, 2012 WHERE IT IS Ascot is a village in Berkshire, technically within the civil parish of Sunninghill and Ascot. The region is divided into Ascot itself, North and and South Ascot. SCHOOLS The schools in Ascot are good and some are rather smart – particularly the girls schools. Of these, St Mary’s Ascot, a Catholic all [...]
FOCUS ON: ASCOT April 26, 2012 EASTWAYS Price: £4.95m A spacious seven bedroom home set in landscaped gardens overlooking Sunningdale Golf Course. It features a library, drawing room, breakfast room and utility room as well as a cinema room. Also has a triple garage. Contact Knight Frank on 01344 642 732 TWO CEDARS Price: £1.38m Five bedroom house located in the [...]
Stamp duty woes: selling up and a renovations business April 26, 2012 DIRECTOR, KAY & CO Q My property is currently on the market at £2.15m. I had accepted an offer of £2.05m but unfortunately the recent stamp duty increase caused the sale to fall through and I have not had much interest since. I have found somewhere else that I want to buy and do not [...]
A rollicking outing for Marvel fans April 26, 2012 FILM AVENGERS ASSEMBLE Cert: 12A ***** A team of super heroes being brought together from three different blockbuster movie franchises. An alien invasion. A shadowy Chancellor Palpatine-style intergalactic villain. A shady government organisation with dubious plans. Various back stories and sub plots. Joss Whedon has a lot of plates to keep spinning with Avengers Assemble. [...]
Drama starring Glenn Close as a man is a sad but brilliant oddity April 26, 2012 FILM ALBERT NOBBS Cert: 15 **** What a queer treasure of a film this is. Starring Glenn Close in an Oscar-worthy turn as a woman disguised as a man in 19th century Dublin, the film is based on a book by George Moore, an Irish novelist and poet of the late 1800s, and directed by [...]
An Orwellian whorl of a film that’s unsettling and original April 26, 2012 FILM CLONE Cert: 15 **** Matt Smith, who plays Clone’s hero Tommy, is kinda handsome in a kooky way. More Easter Island statue than Michelangelo’s David. People fancy him, but they’re not sure why. It probably accounts for why his CV beyond Doctor Who is sparse to say the least. You feel he is going [...]
HANDBAGS LADBAGS April 25, 2012 Miu Miu leather shoulder bag, £550, netaporter.com Chic and luxurious, ideal for daytime and night, glam or casual. Zara Plaited shopper, £79.99, zara.com If you’re looking for chic and simple on a budget, this bag made from buffalo leather is the perfect fit. It’s large enough to stash all of your essentials for work along [...]
FASHION FORWARD April 25, 2012 If the UK had more businesses like Burberry, we’d be rolling in gold. Happiness. Success. No double-dip recession for us. Oh no. Although Burberry’s not the only global fashion mega-hit to come from these isles, it’s certainly the brightest right now, reporting an 18 per cent increase in revenues over the last six months. As [...]
Blue sky thinking April 25, 2012 GOOGLE DRIVE COST: 5GB: free; 25GB: $2.49 a month; 100GB: $4.99 a month; 1TB: $49.99 a month; 16TB: $799.99 a month PROS: It’s cheap, compared to rivals (the free part is twice the size of Dropbox’s offering). It allows users to create, sync, store and share files across platforms. It also syncs with Google’s other [...]