In "Floral Gifts", Jacky Hobbs shows how innovative containers can be used to create gorgeous floral offerings that are almost too good to give away. The charm of these floral gifts lies not only in the fresh blooms, but also the containers in which they are imaginatively presented. You could present a keen cook with a pestle and mortar planted up with culinary herbs, for example, or give a wine lover a bottle of his favourite vintage set among vines and grapes. The ideas in this book allow anyone to transform a simple bunch of flowers into something special, creating a momory that the recipient will always cherish. Bought flower arrangements swathed in cellophane can be expensive and impersonal, but these thoughtfully devised gifts come straight from the heart.*Dozens of pretty and quirky ideas for birthdays, Christmas and other special occasions, such as St. Valentine's Day, Christmas and Mother's Day.*Lively photography by Michelle Garrett.
The first full account of the beautiful, innocent young woman who married Reggie Kray - and became trapped in the violent and terrifying world of the Kray Twins.She was young, very beautiful and had everything to live for - but the life of Frances Shea, wife of Reggie Kray, remains one of the most tragic stories of the Sixties.Courted by Reggie as a schoolgirl, Frances was lured into an outwardly glamorous world of nightclubs, expensive clothes and showbiz parties. Yet she very soon discovered the real world of the Kray Twins, the hidden, twisted world where violence, drink, drugs and terror dominated everything.Frances broke away and briefly enjoyed other relationships, struggling to maintain her freedom. Yet Reggie would never let her go. Paranoid and obsessive, he monitored her every move, stalking her night and day.By the time she married Reggie in their ‘Wedding of the Year’ in 1965, Frances and her family had become inextricably linked with the Twins’ downward spiral from gangland extortion and brutality into senseless murder and mayhem.Trapped, desperate and unable to cope, just two years later Frances died from a drug overdose.Only now, 50 years later, in a revealing and shocking examination of the facts, the truth about the life of Frances Shea and her short marriage to Reggie Kray is finally revealed in this new, revised edition. With hitherto unseen photographs, documents and revelations, the book explodes the many myths surrounding the marriage. In doing so, it uncovers the sordid reality of the Kray world - and shows how the effect of this tragic, doomed relationship haunted the lives of Frances’s loved ones right to the end.
The determination of when, how, how often and with whom an animal breeds is moving rapidly away from evolutionary pressures and towards human purposes: these include the breeding of around 50 billion mammals and birds for food production annually, the breeding of pedigree dogs and cats, racing dogs and horses, specialised laboratory animal strains and the use of reproductive science to conserve endangered species or breeds and to limit unwanted populations of pests and non-native species. But the ethics and sustainability of this takeover of animals' reproductive lives have been insufficiently examined by either professionals or the public. This book discusses the methods, the motivations and the consequences of human intervention in animal breeding in terms of animal health, behaviour and well-being. It explores where we are now and the choices ahead, and looks to a future where we have more respect for animals as sentient beings and where we could loosen the reins of reproductive control.
In "Floral Gifts", Jacky Hobbs shows how innovative containers can be used to create gorgeous floral offerings that are almost too good to give away. The charm of these floral gifts lies not only in the fresh blooms, but also the containers in which they are imaginatively presented. You could present a keen cook with a pestle and mortar planted up with culinary herbs, for example, or give a wine lover a bottle of his favourite vintage set among vines and grapes. The ideas in this book allow anyone to transform a simple bunch of flowers into something special, creating a momory that the recipient will always cherish. Bought flower arrangements swathed in cellophane can be expensive and impersonal, but these thoughtfully devised gifts come straight from the heart.*Dozens of pretty and quirky ideas for birthdays, Christmas and other special occasions, such as St. Valentine's Day, Christmas and Mother's Day.*Lively photography by Michelle Garrett.
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