Hints and tips:
...Chaucer describes how birds tweet on Valentine’s Day and choose their mates. I am a Robin, last Wednesday was Valentine’s Day, but I am not a bird. I was in my garden, pondering, not tweeting....
...For example, with our Valentine’s Day carbonara ravioli, we made the filling with a smoked chickpea and onion mousse, served in a pecorino broth and garnished with a raw egg yolk, parsley, and for those...
...He was to enter enemy territory disguised as a German peasant, find the colonel and give him a secret message....
...These ingredients are also featured in Holmen Lofoten’s “Kitchen on the Edge of the World” programme — gastronomic retreats, co-created by the British chef, Valentine Warner, which take place five times...
...I was amazed by an article she wrote to coincide with Valentine’s Day this year in which she argued that the ideal match for roast beef, hot or cold, is pink fizz....
...But rather than tinting them in sunny hues, her strange, dark play Women, Beware the Devil makes them something you’d rather not look at, like leeches writhing on a wound....
...Since then the country of 13mn people has had two coups d’état, four heads of state and three presidential elections....
...You know, just something to chew on as you’re popping those Valentine’s Day chocolates....
...(I’d call that “pod hogging”....
...I’d love to get a dress or outfit for Valentine’s Day that’s comfortable but interesting. What do you suggest? Ah, Valentine’s Day. Love it or hate it, there is no getting away from it....
...A trip to Switzerland inspired an Alpine dinner, replete with cow-embroidered linens, while a Valentine’s Day Murder and Cocktails Tea Party was inspired by Agatha Christie....
...She’d go to a decent school, get unspectacular exam results and, if she chose not to be a nurse or a teacher, she’d do a secretarial course and get a decent job in an office....
...In the early 1950s, Nasser, then a young colonel with relatively moderate political views, sought to build a close relationship with the US....
...Having seen Tremain reading from her work on several occasions, I’d say McDowell is strikingly close to the author’s own intonation and intention....
...He accepted his first ministerial appointment wearing a suit he’d just accidentally doused in cappuccino. He worked to the point of exhaustion. He once briefly thought about killing himself....
...It was, coincidentally, Valentine’s Day. “It’s strange visiting a house when you don’t know the owner,” says Martin of meeting the retired journalist and photographer who’d lived there for 20 years....
...When an emotional pay-off does come — as when Paul gives his father a Valentine’s card — it cracks overhead like a sonic boom....
...President Emmanuel Macron, telling it like it is, spoke of “a perfectly illegitimate coup d'état” — and then went into a rare silence, while Washington and some African states tried to engage into negotiations...
...If you went alone you’d feel crazy.”...
...Keep Your Courage is studded with myths: the joyous lead single “Come On Aphrodite”; Echo and Narcissus; St Valentine; the Bible. Merchant champions cultural literacy....
...I’d imagine a number of those wealthy Americans who buy into the DLC resort will themselves have Scottish heritage and would like to rekindle the flame....
...“It’s not as if the government’s agenda is to shift the balance back to sports,” said Shukla, the former colonel....
...Colonel Amadou Abdramane, dressed in a blue uniform and surrounded by nine other officers, said defence and security forces had decided to “put an end to the regime due to the deteriorating security situation...
...Frazier’s narrator, Valentine “Val” Montgomery Welch, is an artist with a commission for his times....
...If it’s post-11am, I’ll get a beer – an Almaza, the traditional Lebanese beer, or a Colonel, locally brewed in Batroun....
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