Hints and tips:
...“It’s a play born of rage. I remember cashiers, teachers and sometimes my own friends making ungenerous assumptions about my family’s accented English....
...I’ve been in every continent for the UN. I never thought I’d have to do something about poverty at home as well . . . I really didn’t think we could go as far backwards as we’ve gone.”...
...Which was a very uncomfortable moment for me, because I don’t like being overwhelmed by emotion.” As a writer and a father, he took that as a clue: he’d better push towards it. He began to write....
...“One of the most eagerly anticipated restaurants of 2024 sees the return of Jeremy King and [maître d’ and director] Jesus Adorno to Le Caprice; oh sorry, we’re not allowed to call it Le Caprice, but really...
...A relative of mine was as close as I had personally come, and that wasn’t especially near....
...It was her grandmother who took her travelling as a child (as well as her parents), and they spent whole summers at Vistorta, the family’s agricultural estate in Pordenone, north-east of Venice....
...One day, I met some friends for coffee. One of them asked me why I looked so sad. “Because I am Palestinian,” I said....
...“If my parents went away on holiday, when I was 16, I’d be the one volunteering to stay behind and look after the cows,” he says....
...Britain won’t be one of them, for as long as it is a signatory to the European Convention on Human Rights. Albert Pierrepoint was born in March 1905, the middle child of Mary and Henry Pierrepoint....
...This mix of modern movement with old-school chanson is his USP – something he stumbled across as he danced to his father’s records as a child....
...Monica grew up in Bolivia, one of 10 siblings. She was a strong and diligent child. On weekends, she swept hot red dust out of the local church....
...I grew up with a love of animals. My father used to save birds that fell out of their nests and he would bring them in. As a child, I begged and begged and begged for a dog and we finally got one....
...and the only one worth putting on a suit and tie for; oysters eaten off a paper plate at Richard Haward’s in Borough Market, which reminded him of visits to Southend-on-Sea as a child....
...As for what’s next, Roux is certainly not retiring....
...He runs through a checklist of things he needs to work on: one minute he’s on plumbing; the next he’s outlining plans to buy the village a communal motorbike....
...Baffled, I smuggled it home for my father to taste. He dipped a spoon and nodded. And for that moment, Maria was alive, standing next to us in my kitchen....
...Cox is the child of a British father and Canadian mother who moved frequently because of his father’s work: spells in Nigeria, Cameroon and Chad were interspersed with time in Western Canada....
...So of course, the majority of low-income families don’t actually use our child care system because they can’t afford to. They tend to rely on family and friends....
...At the time, he couldn’t stand them — but “He [my father] said that when I got older, quieter things would make me happy. You’ll see, he said, and he’d run his hand through my hair.”...
...“I’d love to go, but I want to be able to write [music] and I only have so much time and only so much energy to do it.”...
...And what all of that needs to be framed into is actually having as open a conversation as possible with the people who are affected by the bereavement, whether it’s them individually or whether it’s people...
...Madison Marriage By now, I believed everything the twins I met at the beginning of this investigation and what countless others had told me. I’d heard about the ultimate consequences....
...As a child, he wrote in Jacob’s Ladder, “the map of Treasure Island was as familiar to me as my bedroom”....
...For example, I love coffee as much as the next American, but I know that a man with a manual bean grinder is an embassy’s worth of red flags....
...She’d been suspicious at first: “I said, ‘Oh no, it looks like human trafficking.’” But a friend who had also moved to Nairobi reassured her....
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