The estate is surrounded by lush green gardens full of native Mexican plants, geese and peacocks.
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And when they learned that they could shoot boomerangs at peacocks, they were hooked.
Just last week Peacocks, the clothing retailer which employs 9, 000 people, called in the administrators.
Other recent High Street collapses have included JJB Sports, Clinton Cards, Blacks Leisure, Game, and Peacocks.
He keeps a menagerie of monkeys and peacocks in the grounds of his office.
Peter's Peacocks, the Long Island Blackbirds and the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers (which is some kind of angry rooster).
In just the last year Game Group, Peacocks, Past Times and Clinton Cards have all fallen into administration.
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And Cardiff-based Peacocks saw sales for the five weeks to 1 January jump 28%, with like-for-like sales ahead 9%.
An animal lover, he has a zoo in Borneo with dozens of animals including gibbons, sun bears, and peacocks.
After all, only last November conservatives were preening themselves like peacocks, having won their seventh presidential election in ten contests.
By attracting peahens for their close family members, the celibate peacocks are helping to propagate genes that are similar to their own.
On the Ickworth estate he organised what was perhaps the only shooting party ever held anywhere in which the quarries were the tame peacocks.
Set in the midst of parched lands, it's an oasis of mango and banana trees, home to deer, peacocks and several other species of birds.
Through genetic testing, they found that the peacocks within a particular lek tended to be more closely related to each other than those in other leks.
To test this theory and determine how the peacocks identified their relatives and picked nearby lekking sites, the researchers studied situations where peacock families had been disrupted.
Retailers endured a tough year in 2012, with a number of high profile High Street names going into administration, including Peacocks, Game, Aquascutum, Clinton Cards and Comet.
She collects drops of water in the vessel she carries on her head, avoiding dirty water, flinging boomerangs at pesky peacocks, jumping over turtles, and avoiding bouncing footballs.
The wide diversity of patterns reflects a variety of influences, ranging from Arabic calligraphy, European bouquets and Chinese phoenixes to Japanese cherry blossoms and Indian or Persian peacocks.
The overall effect is epic and graceful, with wings radiating from the 105-foot-high central dome, and features plenty of grace notes, from musicians serenading at breakfast to peacocks strolling the manicured lawns.
You knew that one day you would go out into a world of marble pavements and peacocks, of hillsides buzzing with heat, the fragrance of crushed herbs rising around you as you walked.
The two main elements had been the growth of discount stores such as Matalan and Peacocks, and also the growth of brand shops such as Gap and Next, which targeted specific parts of the market.
Just as it is only genetically fit peacocks that can grow symmetrical tails with perfectly repeated eyespots, only genetically fit artists, with good muscular co-ordination and perfect vision, can produce accurate repetitions of complex, symmetrical motifs.
Run by the same Croatian-Italian clan since it opened as a single villa in 1909, the hillside property overlooks an idyllic cove and has expanded into seventeen rooms tucked into charming bungalows and cottages, scattered throughout a lush, century-old botanical garden roamed by imported peacocks.
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