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Seven hearty Honey & Co recipes that make stormy weather a pleasure
Facing the waves and backed by mountains, an abandoned hamlet on the sleepy island of São Jorge has been turned into a heavenly retreat
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...What defines a pleasure garden today? Green spaces boost connections to each other and to nature. As Veronica Adepoju says, within such gardens lie “inspiring answers to life’s challenges”....
The Violet Cakes owner on her favourite bakes and sweet treats in London
What does it take to leave a high-flying city life to resurrect a historic estate and make it sustainable, all the while cohabiting with your in-laws? Three families tell their story
Plant summer and autumn-flowering bulbs now and reap the pleasure in the months to come
As sizes relentlessly grow — some to Airbus scale — owners face a shortage of spots in the world’s pleasure zones large enough to berth them
The co-owner of a fourth-generation New York institution shares her Hierarchy of Pleasures
...But it comes in two parts, subdivided into 12 chapters, so consider it the arthouse equivalent of a TV mini-series — and when it comes to the pure pleasure of narrative, it’s a fabulous specimen....
Five favourite menu items — starting with 100-year-old madeira and ending with a kebab
...If you have given yourself the pleasure of acquiring a few luxuries in recent years, then you will have done very well....
...It’s a pleasure to be fully absorbed in the challenge of doing a hard thing well. A pleasure, too, to do hard physical activity. Over the past year, I’ve made a habit of a Saturday morning 5k Parkrun....
...But in Mona of the Manor, we are dealing more with nostalgic wraiths than fresh pleasures....
In the face of disaster, the shy, sad-eyed lead character looks for fulfilment in daily pleasures
If you can endure the adulatory talking heads, there are pleasures for fans in this Disney+ documentary
...We quickly contrast experiences, hence the paper notes that the extreme joy of winning “lessens the impact of ordinary pleasures’‘. Meanwhile, “habituation” reduces the value of new pleasures....
...“I had not participated in the infuriating pleasure of wanting a real and specific body on Earth.”...
...Like Zelenska, human rights lawyer Oleksandra Matviichuk, leader of the Center for Civil Liberties, which won the Nobel peace prize, sees in Ukrainians’ pursuit of small pleasures a form of resistance....
...Yet bilingualism can be the source of great pleasure too. I grew up in a home where friends and family shifted easily between Bengali and English, with excursions into Hindi and Oriya....
...way of expressing status and wealth, the wearer having no need to walk everywhere, and could therefore take on non-practical shapes,” explains Helen Persson Swain, fashion historian and curator of Shoes: Pleasure...
...In contrast to dance music’s pleasure-seeking character, experimental electronic music is oriented around complexity and braininess. Beats are arranged like splatter in an abstract painting....
...Joining a world where you gate-keep pleasure and love, partly by credit score, suggests something else about you too — deep-seated fear....
...This piece is always fantastic live, the greatness of the composition further enhanced by the pleasure of seeing how musicians work together to build it....
The Argentine’s subversive, spectacular work mixes pleasure and politics in an earnest New York show
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