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...Belinda Bawden, Green representative for Lyme on Dorset Council, says the views of traditional Tory voters living amid the green hills on the south coast are increasingly disconnected with those being espoused...
...A cornice, festooned with flowers and foliage made from hundreds of Venus clams, was another “immersive experiment”, she says....
...In her workshop on Devon’s Dartmoor, Belinda Davies makes quilts using traditional materials and methods....
...Founded by Belinda Gray in 2014, the Suffolk-based charity hosts art auctions and events to fund UK breast cancer research....
...Audiochuck’s It’s a Wonderful Lie is a 12-part series in which Ashley Flowers, Holly Laurent and Greg Hess read between the lines of Christmas newsletters and round robins....
...One I keep returning to is an 18th-century number with flower-filled urns and swags in the most charming colourway of deep crimson and faded sky blue....
...Selections by Tim Hayward … GARDENING Seeing Flowers: Discover the Hidden Life of Flowers, by Teri Dunn Chace and Robert Llewellyn, Timber Press, RRP£20/$29.95 Flower porn....
...Outside the US, who has heard of classically formed Belinda’s Favourite with tea-shaped flowers like the old Madam Butterfly and a “fully raspberry fragrance”?...
...Belinda Bowling, 34, a lawyer born in South Africa, lives in Kabul and works on environmental issues for the United Nations....
...Mary Delany, an Irishwoman famous for her flower collages, was, with her friend and shell collector the Duchess of Portland, influential in developing the vogue....
...As Myra Arundel, a guest who constantly complains that the host Bliss family act insincerely, Belinda Lang makes the idiotic decision to behave more artificially than they, throwing theatrically angular...
...He swims every day, and over lunch he banishes a tub of anchovybutter behind the flowers to avoid temptation. The knee injury, too, has made exercise difficult. But it looks like a losing battle....
...The Meanest Flower By Mimi Khalvati Carcanet £8.95, 96 pages FT bookshop price: £7.15 Iranian-born Khalvati’s limpid style is applied to impressive effect on the ancient Persian form of the ghazal (rhyming...
...“We’re trying to educate MBAs to understand the trade-offs of each approach – whether you’re going to control everything centrally or take the ‘let a thousand flowers bloom’ approach.”...
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