Hints and tips:
...Prince, I realise, has come early, in a sharp scarlet suit, arms around his flamed maple Telecaster....
...The waiters are the stars of The Muppet Christmas Carol — the best of all festive creations — although Rizzo has already dropped a tray....
...For sheer drama, the illuminated ruins of Fountains Abbey, combined with carol singing as part of its “Music and Lights” events, would move even the most entrenched Scrooge to embrace Christmas....
...But Begley is a generous and perceptive reader, illuminating the different alter egos – Henry Bech, “Rabbit” Angstrom, Richard Maple – who populate the fiction....
...Serve with maple syrup and perhaps some baked apple slices, or any of the suggestions mentioned above....
...Carol Goodman is a short-story writer with a rustic cabin in Vermont that she sometimes rents to skiers....
...Later came more major purchases, such as the Epstein burr maple dining room suite, for which he paid £1,400 a decade ago and which is now valued at £7,000....
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