Hints and tips:
...Patrick Grant is known to many as the nattily moustachioed judge on BBC television’s The Great British Sewing Bee....
...Halfway through Rob Percival’s brilliantly provocative book on the psychology of meat-eating, this is the question he poses to Charles Way, the head of food quality assurance for KFC UK & Ireland....
...“Bee houses” will be placed around the garden and some of the cabbage plants will be left to run to seed so that Kew’s scientists can study their pollen....
...The gardens of London’s Middle Temple have come a long way from the “slow vegetation”, “smoky shrubs” and “uncongenial pavement” portrayed by Charles Dickens in Martin Chuzzlewit, his 1844 picaresque novel...
...“Retail investors get a bee in their bonnet about crypto or gold or US growth stocks and potentially emerging markets at times....
...asks Uriah Heep in Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield, alluding to his premature announcement of his plan to marry Agnes. We probably all have. Pears are a paradoxical fruit....
...Yet, as Charles Fishman wrote in The Wal-Mart Effect in 2006, Walmart derives all of its impact from us, “from our willingness to open our wallets, just a few dollars at a time . . ....
...Famous attendees of Ye Old Cheshire Cheese have included PG Wodehouse and Charles Dickens, who obliquely mentions it in A Tale of Two Cities....
...Charles proposed. Emma accepted. I am not aware if she made her own list before doing so. The couple had 10 children....
...But tracking the economic value of, say, a bee, is much more subjective. But ESG number crunchers are now trying....
...“You shouldn’t develop an industry around an invasive species unless it really is the bee’s knees at what it does and, if you do, you’d need to invest massively in making sure that it’s controlled.”...
...This has left academics puzzling over weighty questions, such as “what is a bee worth?”...
...If Charles Dodgson struck contemporaries as an unlikely source for this kind of mischief, his early life was in many ways a training for it....
...It has been created with the intention of giving more autonomy to the decorators, allowing them to choose where to position the beehive pattern, which bee to add and where — perhaps hidden in the honeycombs...
...Famous internees, including businessmen Sir Charles Forte and Tiny Rowland, were also held on the island during the second world war....
...In November 2015, Invicta’s then CEO Charles Walters and executive deputy chairman Arnold Goldstone sold stock to satisfy margin calls....
...The Bee Gees topped the Billboard Hot 100, about to give way to Chic’s “Le Freak”....
...Contact kmanahan@familleperrin.com Illustration by Eva Bee...
...However, the MPC seems to have a bee in its bonnet about “normalising” rates and a further small rise cannot be ruled out....
...And the joke of Clarke’s taste in clothes — popsicle-coloured skirts, fluffy pink midi jackets, bee-stripe tights, as if from some thrift shop in Fairyland — is funny and sustained....
...It was her last but one film before retirement: a big, daft disaster movie about bees which engendered of course (even from her) on-set jokes about Bee-movies....
...● Affiliated Managers Group, the $638bn multi-boutique, has hired Robert Bee as UK head of distribution from Ashmore Group....
...DC boss Sir Charles Dunstone has a City fan base as enthralled by his ability to walk while chewing gum. Another part of the reaction matters....
...Back to bee-keeping for a moment....
...Favoured by US President Obama and Prince Charles, the shirts range from pale cotton to crisp Irish linen. Cashmere socks, ties, and dressing gowns vie for attention....
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