Thomas Seymour nevertheless continued scheming to control the royal family and tried to have himself appointed the governor of the King's person.[26][27] When Parr died after childbirth on 5 September 1548, he renewed his attentions towards Elizabeth, intent on marrying her.[28] Her governess ...
AfterWorld War II, film studios began to move outside Hollywood, and the practice of filming “on location” emptied many of the famous lots and sound stages or turned them over totelevisionshow producers. With the growth of the television industry, Hollywood began to change, and by the early...
Excitement builds as aficionados wait for the online and print catalogues as well as notification of the prebooking opportunities. It looks like the 2018 vintage will be a very good year, like 2015 and 2016. The Bordeaux Release is quite the show! Especially when you see shopping carts loaded...
In Charles Dickens’ famous novel, A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge tells his clerk, Bob Cratchit that they would talk about his future and how Scrooge would help his family “…over a Christmas bowl of smoking bishop…”. Scrooge’s ‘smoking bishop’ was in fact a sweet alcoholic punch...
It is also a booking for a Guarantee stateroom and we would not know which cabin until shortly before sailing. In the past we had booked cabins which were linked to the Britannia restaurant but for this cruise we paid extra and had a stateroom which was one level above and linked to ...
(PFV), an association of twelve prestigious families from the world of wine, appoints one of its members as President to oversee the association for the year and act as its representative at various events around the world. This year, Charles Symington of ...
“Our Cello Community” invites student cellists of all levels, beginner to grade 8+, up to age 18, to join us for a fun day of Cello Orchestra pieces by Thomas Gregory, and Vamoosh classics, led by Helen Neilson. Tickets £42/£21. Full details and booking link on Eventbrite: ...
Personally, as a general practice, we don’t keep white wine longer than two years beyond the vintage and drink it within one year by preference. We buy red wine that we can cellar for another 2 – 5 years and that is as far out time-wise as we select. All this affects our purchas...
Before leaving this inspiring place we followed our usual practice of lighting a wax taper, casting our own pencil of light into the shadows. In the Part 2 of 3, I will write about our visit the same day to Billecart-Salmon and Krug. References: With thanks to Wine Spectator for the ...