Hints and tips:
...Finally, do read Ramachandra Guha in Foreign Affairs on “India’s feet of clay: how Modi’s supremacy will hinder his country’s rise”....
...Franco-Japanese brand EviDenS de Beauté’s The Intense Purifying Mask is a mix of Japanese Kaga clay and French red clay boosted with papain enzymes and protease from bacillus ferment....
...The French mezzo-soprano Gaëlle Arquez is the titular heroine; Belgian conductor René Jacobs leads the B-Rock Orchestra....
...Moor Wood’s roses do not have heavy clay soil and winter pruning but they certainly run on optimism....
...More than 20 varieties of coiffed box cultivars include Buxus latifolia maculata with its big glossy leaves; B macrophylla (good for larger hedges); the beautiful variegated “Elegantissima” and, of course...
...It’s a dramatisation of Cheryl Strayed’s book of the same name, starring Kathryn Hahn. It’s also bleakly funny (in my opinion — some critics disagree)....
...£49, Alex Eagle at alexeagle.com Steel and aluminium ‘bolt’ floor light, £470, Antone de Groof Tonone at scp.co.uk Hand-thrown porcelain ‘Tidal mug’, £42, at artemisdeco.com or glassette.com Handmade clay...
...with singer/songwriter Cautious Clay....
...“Water is the source of life,” says Yaqoob Al Abri, owner of Misfah Old House B&B. “The mountain is like a giant tank that gives us water even when it has not rained — thanks be to God!”...
...Now it’s based in a beautiful shop in the West Loop that’s made entirely out of Chicago common brick, the historic clay bricks we started making after the Chicago Fire of 1871....
...As one senior EU official said, “there is no plan B” for the energy crisis that Europe faces. Case in point, Gazprom’s announcement yesterday that it would again cut supplies to Germany....
...For something a bit more contemporary, with self-catering in mind (think small kitchens and work areas), Vergauwe and Rosseel have just opened a second, three-room B&B, Atelier d’Arthur, across the garden...
...From €1,000 per night B&B, passalacqua.it/en...
...His melding of India’s music has been continued by Sawhney, whose compositions incorporate classical Indian music with forms as modern as hip-hop, R&B and reggae....
...The mood is elegiac, but three raps of Omar Clay’s snare launch a soul-jazz groove that makes the pulse race....
...(After three years of permaculture, composting and companion planting the clay soil is now rich in organic matter.)...
...Then there is the architecture, from simple ancient clay tubes to complex skyscrapers, clusters of apian towers like a buzzing Manhattan....
...“It was the B.1.1.7 variant transmission rate that did it for me,” Prof Iwasaki wrote on Twitter, referring to reports that the new strain was at least 50 per cent more transmissible....
...It boasts three acres of private beach and two clay tennis courts....
...The last music I downloaded was “Be Careful” by Cardi B, with great lines such as, “It’s not a threat, it’s a warning”, and Janelle Monáe’s “I Like That” – “I’m always left of centre and that’s right where...
...Ms Ringnes said it would not matter if Norske Selskab were a clay pigeon shooting club....
...As part of a conference with the queer philosopher Paul B....
...“I’d gone to this wine and R’n’B event in Brixton called Genuwine, where Dan was DJing. And when he saw me, he was like, ‘You’re Dynamite! What are you doing here?’...
...His studio is next to my mother’s house so we’d see him in there every day covered in clay. It’s so special for us to have a piece of his work in our home....
...As recently as 15 years ago, the Andalucían coastal city was something of a B-list destination, an unreconstructed harbour town with little to recommend beyond its situation on a sweeping Mediterranean bay...
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