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2013 Extra Special Chardonnay Pays d'Oc (PS5 at Asda on rollback) Sadly, many drinkers have turned their back on chardonnay after OD'ing on all those blowsy, over-ripe and over-oaked versions.

Peonies and the blowsy Piaget and David Austin roses frequently make up the European-style arrangements that are La Jolie Fleur's signature.

They make a perfect foil for the big, blowsy poppies that are at their best in the early days of June.

It boasts no great stately home, no noisy theme park or blowsy formal gardens, and even the church is more Victorian than ancient.

She stared at the neat handwriting, blowsy in places.

I do know, though, that this blowsy flower's parts are

The Taming of the Shrew, Newcastle Theatre Royal BARE bums, blowsy humour, a bit of sax and electric guitar and even some flamenco flouncing - or was it a touch of The Three Amigos?

for Recently I have been working on vintage themes, tea cups and saucers, tea pots and cake stands filled with big blowsy, heavenly scented roses with a nostalgic, feminine feel.

Under these blowsy peaches while I share their windfall with wasps?

(It's just a blowsy blossom; just a red-flecked cherry pit.

Quiet, mild and polite, a docile husband and apparently entirely unremarkable person, he had a wife who is always described as a blowsy, heavy-drinking nightmare, vain, bullying and promiscuous.

He still prowls around the stage with an extraordinary sexual presence, still manages to catch the flying underwear one-handed and - in that blowsy trumpet break in Kiss - thinks he'd "better dance now".

WHITE FLOWERING SHRUBS Choose sturdy, old-fashioned bridal wreath spirea (Spiraea) and fragrant mock orange (Philadelphus) for a romantic, blowsy white garden.

Try Graham & Brown's country-cottage style Spirit Collection wallpaper, pictured bottom of page, with blowsy blooms, or a pared-down Essence range with stylised blooms.

Big blowsy shrubs such as hydrangeas, roses and lilacs look wonderful in a formal garden.