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...Letter in response to this article: Sunak handouts highlight the case for land value tax / From Carol Wilcox, Secretary, Labour Land Campaign, Christchurch, Dorset, UK...
...Carol Wilcox Secretary, Labour Land CampaignChristchurch, Dorset, UK...
...I like a garland made from fir or pine, and into this I’ll weave holly and ivy, maybe some eucalyptus....
...Pre-Covid, the army organised a carol service here each Christmas for those with links to the commandeered villages....
...Like an invasive species, Christmas music is spreading outwards, a festive ivy with tinselly tendrils reaching ever deeper into autumn....
...We sprayed bullrushes and ivy silver, bottled and pickled, stirred and roasted, planted charms in puddings. Carols were sung until the neighbours pleaded for mercy....
...What better time to get to know Britten’s arrangement of The Holly and the Ivy and his New Year Carol? ★★★★☆ ‘Benjamin Britten: A Ceremony of Carols’ is released by Harmonia Mundi...
...Alternatively, make simple swags from stretches of garden ivy (Hedera helix or Hedera colchica) wrapped around thin green garden or florists’ wire and use these to festoon your backdrop....
...Our decorating starts with us gathering holly, ivy and rosemary from the garden. This is a classic, elegant way to bring the magic of the season indoors....
...Its buy is informed by its owners’ interest in French Ivy style and a “buy less, buy better” philosophy – with products curated from all over the world....
...“In the last two years, we have achieved the best prices we have ever achieved,” says Iain Williamson, managing director at Ivy Property, “but you will only see that in [the postcodes] G3 and G12.”...
...There is much more to this Christmas than holly and ivy. The weather has been so mild in early December that gardeners are spoiled for choice....
...“Let It Snow” carries itself appropriately lightly, and it’s better than many renditions; but Chris Sugden’s comic “The Ivy And The Holly” is a pale shadow of the weird intensity of “The Holly And The Ivy...
...One of the best-loved of Christmas carols, “The Holly and the Ivy” has a gentle tune to flatter girlish soprano voices and an easy chorus for the rest of the crowd....
...By comparison, holly and ivy are best left in the carol book. As a combination they have less bulk and less impact than cotoneasters and evergreen magnolia, and do not stay upright in a vase....
...This much-loved Christmas Carol uses words published by Cecil Sharp in 1911. But to what extent did he graft Christian elements onto a very different original?...
...The echoes of today’s battle between Ivy Leaguers and anti-establishment populists are hard to miss....
...Mudwoman, by Joyce Carol Oates, Fourth Estate, £16.99, 428 pages Thirty years ago, Joyce Carol Oates wrote an essay entitled: “Why is your writing so violent?”...
...Carol Stephenson is dean of the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario, which reduced the length of its MBA from two years to one....
...Four of the eight Ivy League universities – Brown, Harvard, Pennsylvania and Princeton – already have women presidents....
...The design was well suited to its time, 1843 was also the year of A Christmas Carol and Horsley’s work looks almost like a spin-off from Dickens’s story....
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