Hints and tips:
...We meet just after midday at Rochelle Canteen in London’s East End, as spring birdsong mingles with the call to prayer from the nearby Shoreditch Mosque....
...The birdsong coming through the thick pine forest in central Norway could be a postcard-perfect scene, but for one thing....
...I have less hair back there than most people, so I don’t hear high-pitched sounds: no birdsong or alarms. Even people with soft, high-pitched voices: I just see lips moving....
...Mimi Xu: “I don’t queue for nightclubs, but I’ll queue for food.”...
...Precisely because they don’t view politics as all that important next to eternal human nature, they come alive on aesthetics and other subjects....
...He notices birdsong, takes joy in learning about those he meets in the hospital....
...I don’t do skinny heels....
...“I don’t just want to appeal to white, skinny model types,” she says....
...Citrus trees heavy with fruit and blooming bougainvillea cascade along the walls, while a soundtrack of birdsong and water fountains plays in the background....
...If you want to get nature back you don't go out and plant trees, you put free-roaming animals in the system in the right numbers. And then they start creating habitat for you....
...He hopes to show people what they’ve been missing: “100 years ago, there could have been 10 times more birdsong, but we don’t know....
...You don your Panama hat and slump into a deck chair with a good glass of wine. As the heat of the day fades, you settle down to enjoy the music....
...He then reflected on America’s overabundance of guns, concluding: “I don’t know if anyone is safe.”...
...Birdsong is more melodious. Life feels beautiful. I feel beautiful, as I emerge from the toad-green water with a few damp leaves stuck to my goose-pimpled legs, but I don’t look it....
...But if our gardens don’t live up to our conventional standards of beauty, will we care for them as we should?...
...I don’t often run in a group. Even on familiar terrain, it’s stressful. Also, I hate being last, at anything....
...Day also likes the symbolism: “I don’t think people realise how dirty the fingers of the church were when it came to slavery.”...
...(along with their Jack Russell, Jean Gabin) who, though they don’t yet know it, are my new BFFs. So there are comedy mishaps along the way....
...And don’t forget a water bottle (or two) and some snacks as well....
...Don’t tell me that you’re prepared to swap an eternity of looking at a rain-soaked wheat field just because, for a few weeks, you couldn’t go and buy a pint?...
...It’s early spring in London, so the sun fills the sky and delicate birdsong fills our ears. Only kidding, it’s 10°C, the smell is distinctly urban, and a steward soon appears with a loudspeaker....
...“We don’t have monuments in Bougainville, but we do have structures,” Havini explains. “There is none of the monumentality that prevails in the west. When things break down, we repair them....
...I don’t believe the national bedtime story any more.” 5....
...Birdsong, clocks and traffic are fine. And this isn’t just a personal foible....
...But white people don’t realise how it has been hurting us all.”...
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