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...For this clay-bound county in south-east England is often better known for being the butt of jokes than a seat for vines – but the growing consensus is that “England’s Côte-d’Or” is now producing some of...
...Clay is a multilingual material.”...
.... — Simon Mundy Investors see fresh opportunity in centuries-old Cornish mines The sleepy south-western English county of Cornwall was once a hotbed of economic activity thanks to its robust mining sector...
...Finally, do read Ramachandra Guha in Foreign Affairs on “India’s feet of clay: how Modi’s supremacy will hinder his country’s rise”....
...Materials span from wood and clay to textiles, metal and glass....
...The granite peninsula, which juts into the hostile seas around south-west England, is scattered with relics of the county’s mining industry....
...Cornwall used to be the global centre for china clay mining, an input for ceramics, but extraction and manufacturing activity in the region has dwindled, leaving one of the poorest parts of the UK largely...
...Sally, an accountant with two children, is just about to put her house in the home counties on the market so she and her husband can buy somewhere with one less bedroom and one less reception room....
...He does not use pesticides or herbicides on his own heavy-clay garden in Bookham, Surrey....
...The court case, Held vs Montana, was filed in March 2020 in Lewis and Clark county, which is where the state capital of Helena is located....
...They knew this particular corner of the county well....
...Wexford, a corner county in Ireland, has soaked up energy from its many invaders. The name Wexford is Norse. Many of the surnames, including my own, are Norman, while others are Gaelic....
...Just sand dunes and then cliffs made of soft, marly clay… In the winter sometimes it is better than the summer; in the summer it is out of this world.” @jellison22...
...When I went to her house in Naples, Florida, this March, she Zoomed in as a guest on the ThriveTime Show, a podcast hosted by conservative author Clay Clark....
...Upper Mustang is about the same size as the English county of Dorset, but like most childish notions, it has always existed as something far larger in my head....
...Rocca delle Tre Contrade dates back to 1850 and has been restored by owners Jon Moslet and Marco Scire as a rental property with an infinity pool, clay tennis court and a suite of 12 ensuite bedrooms....
...Dallas county judge Clay Jenkins on August 9 filed a temporary restraining order against the Republican governor’s mask ban, which Abbott subsequently said he would fight....
...Chef Gareth Ward grew up in rural County Durham (a picky eater as a child, apparently) and started working in a pub at 16....
...“I loved making sculptures — I always had a lump of clay in my hands,” she says. “In school, we were given a limited amount of paper to paint on, so when I had used it all up I painted on my dress....
...A white-enamelled oven turned out pot pies, vegetable bakes and Victoria sponges, a nod to the city’s British past; rotis, naans and slow-roasted Bengali delicacies came from a clay chulha by its side, mingling...
...Bellmaking is an ancient craft, involving clay and olivine and molten bronze heated to 2,200F. Here they work with marine bronze, they tell us, the kind used in cleats and oarlocks....
.../ From John O McDonald, Athy, County Kildare, Ireland...
...John O McDonald Athy, County Kildare, Ireland...
...robert.shrimsley@ft.com Letter in response to this column: Fuel duties will not help UK hit emissions target / From Charles Seaford, Barnard Castle, County Durham, UK...
...In timber-edged beds, dahlias, even, and elegant nicotianas give late summer the lift that they also give England’s home counties....
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