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...I’m not sure why, but it may be because the Mâconnais was badly affected by the frosts of early April 2021....
...The entrance hall to the Musée d’Orsay’s magnificent Paris 1874: Inventing Impressionism is smothered in bright red flowers — enlarged versions of the scarlet blots and flecks swarming the long grasses of...
...“He essentially said that he’d introduced one of the biggest tax cuts in history and nobody had noticed,” said one MP at the meeting....
...The natural oils present in teak are moisture resistant, meaning rain, frost and sleet won’t affect it....
...“You’d think after all this time, they’d have come up with something more interesting than smoked salmon,” King imagines his fictional critic carping....
...They also hate hard frost without a warm blanket of snow....
...Handel was occasionally guest of honour and one of his trio sonatas is performed here alongside the Hornpipe, “Compos’d for the concert at Vauxhall, 1740”....
...As a child, the chef hated sprouts; he’d only ever had them out of a can. Once he’d tried them fresh, however, he was obsessed....
...Twelve days of reprieve from this fury — that’s a Christmas ad I’d wish for....
...There'd be UKCA marked products which you could sell in the UK. And if you wanted to sell goods in the European Union you'd have to have CE marking for those items....
...Can the Conservatives find a new raison d’être?...
...“I’d like to put reason in the grass and tears in the sky, like Poussin,” Cézanne said of these late landscapes....
...I’d like the [green] surcharge on electricity bills to go for starters,” he told the FT....
...But the threads do come together — details we’d forgotten in the opening section are recalled in the closing pages — and the ending brings the idiosyncratic string of stories to a close with a satisfying...
...In 2021, they lost about 35 per cent of the potential buds to frost that struck in September....
...I think that was part of David Frost’s intention. Gideon RachmanDavid Frost was the guy who eventually negotiated the whole deal, the last one. Peter FosterIndeed. Gideon RachmanLord Frost to you....
...“I wish,” a longstanding US Democrat and environmentalist said to me recently, “that we’d never politicised global warming.”...
...“This co-operation has never been easy, except for one time when the leaders were friends, [Valéry] Giscard [d’Estaing] and [Helmut] Schmidt.” He is hopeful about Poland’s role under Donald Tusk....
...And to be honest, the plotters themselves typically are also a little bit of a rabble as well, I think we’d have to agree. I mean, I’d just say that there’ve been different parts of this....
...Winemaking equals “financial suicide”, said my brother — after informing me he’d rather I didn’t write about the family business....
...At one point, she began slowly going numb from her neck all the way down her spine, like frost creeping down a windowpane. The pain coursed through her body. Her armpits. Her ears. Her chest. Her eyes....
...Robin Lane Fox Something I’d like to emphasise. You are at the moment in Britain, living in the golden age of winter gardening....
...That’s all well and good — and surely better than the churlish punch-up diplomacy of the Johnson/Frost era — but other events this week in Brussels raised the question of how deep a foundation can really...
...We’d taken all reasonable steps to insure the building correctly one year earlier but we ended up underinsured.”...
...Around me, huge, fractured slabs of Lake Khovsgol, in its solid seasonal form, rear up in jagged stacks, like the ruined battlements of some frost king’s fortress....
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