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...Stuff I enjoyed this week FT House & Home columnist Joy Lo Dico mused intelligently on the political, financial and emotional value of trees....
...Now that investors have grown sick of subsidising lossmaking streaming services, studios are rediscovering the joys of the cash that comes from a box office hit — a turnaround that Nolan is happy to see....
...“Bringing joy is my main aim,” says Pocock. A “really quite sad” playroom at a women’s shelter is transformed with pattern, colour and textured fabric....
...Swimmers’ Beach close to the town centre often teems with unbridled swimsuit joy whatever the weather....
...Less surprising, because her debut album has been a joy this last year, was Katy J Pearson, whose main stage afternoon slot was terrific, but whose raucous late-night secret show sent the Tipi Tent stage...
...It is a sign of me buying”, followed by an emoji to indicate “tears of joy” or laughing. (DD wonders whether Hwang went with this one 😂, or this one 🤣.)...
...After battling through three Covid-19 lockdowns no one could begrudge the obvious joy felt by successful students receiving their A-level grades on Tuesday — but it was also impossible to ignore the lingering...
...In 2018, Donna Lennard opened a branch of her Il Buco restaurant (also in Manhattan and the Hamptons) here, and the village has a new cocktail bar, Overall, with a funky low-lit interior and cutting-edge...
...“People like Dan Pearson, Simon Gillespie and Lisa Brice remind us of what we do have....
...They will be joined by Joy Jones, chief product officer and general manager, assessments, at the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC); and Tarini Sundar, MBA (2020, Northwestern University Kellogg...
...Da Corte cites the cover of the 1976 album Four Seasons of Love, which has Donna Summer reclining in leggy lunar splendour. Artist and curator are just getting going in the references department....
...Donna Swinford, associate dean for student recruitment and admissions at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, agreed that current students were a pivotal source of guidance....
...We want to give people joy daily, whether it’s a spoon or a sofa – they are using it, loving it and can’t think of replacing it.” All their designs begin as sketches....
...But he can remember the joy and relief in his loyalist Belfast community when family members and neighbours came home from prison, freed from their sentences under the terms of the landmark peace deal....
...An actual suicide occurs in “33⅓”, which is based on the death by hanging of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis....
...For Pearson, planting should ebb and flow, with the focus changing through the seasons....
...Final thought As the world retreated inside, many of the previously overlooked tiny details of our lives became unexpected sources of joy....
...That’s the joy of it. If you know a little bit about what you’re selling, you can usually get a good price for it. My sofa, however, is something that I’ll never sell....
...How many of you have made a big garden in the past 10 years under whose trees it is a joy to stroll at evening?...
...Greenwashing For something a little more modern, but equally bucolic, Joy Lo Dico has investigated the world of vertical planting....
...They rescue bad films from the bin by celebrating the aleatory joys and adventitious mischiefs of their badness....
...His face was pink with what I can only assume was pure joy. Horses don’t care for the cut of our suit or our job titles. They see us for who we truly are....
...Lost feelings of sadness blossomed into my awareness, then turned to joy....
...For all the scolds worrying that companies are exploiting their debt contracts to get away with murder, last Friday brought a moment of joy....
...The sheer joy of the celebration surpasses a cup final. The second comes after a car accident in Cambridgeshire at the weekend....
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