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Queue Jumping for the perfect shirt

It’s August and the lads at the Italian workshop have packed it in for the month and are hitting the islands down south or cooling their heels in the Dolomites. Before everyone became decidedly...
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Hamptons bracing for a devastating Rose´ shortage

Hamptons Bracing for Another Devastating Rosé Shortage By Clint Rainey Can't drink this problem away. Photo: Chateau d’EsclansBy this time last year, a rosé shortagehad turned the Hamptons into...

5 Italian islands that aren’t Capri

Capri's been done to death.  It's the place to be (which is why it isn't) for the moneyed  hordes have over run it with the clack clacking of teetering heels and braying laughter.  Sure it's...
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The Perfect Pimm’s Cup & the Perfect Garden

It's perhaps the most summery of English drinks and from James Pimm's oyster bar to car park drinks at Royal Ascot, Henley, and Basil's it's traveled far.  Forget cricket whites, boating jackets, and...

The Gentleman Gardener and the Buddleia

  Is there a better place of refuge than the garden shed?  Could it be the grown man's answer to the tree houses and secret forts of our youth? At the youngest of ages I would seek my...