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...They also have their sledges ready in the hope of a white Christmas....
...We also were tempted by a 4sq m Swiss flag, and fantasised about decorating the chalet we do not own with antique skis and sledges. Open Saturday, 7am–5pm, May to October....
...I suggested — gauchely, I’m sure — that as the climate warms, energy use for heating might decline. “Perhaps, but it will rise for air-conditioning.” I’m looking for a happy ending here....
...Before leaving the States, two friends, Eddie Sledge, who wound up being a dentist, and Albee Fennar and his Japanese wife, Keiko. I was 15, 16, they were a little older....
...“They’re amazing instruments, and I’m just hoarding them,” says Rodgers, who played guitar on Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky”....
...Nearby was the original “Rosebud” sledge, lent to the museum by Steven Spielberg, which I examined as scenes from the film flashed on a screen....
...At Standon Calling, alongside Hot Chip and Sister Sledge, are Bristol-based group Elder Island. Their talent manager is Ross Patel....
...“I’m not a keen gardener, so my justification is that I’m rewilding the grounds,” he jokes. “We have deer wandering across here, which I think is wonderful....
...Appliqués read, in block-capitals white on navy, “I’m saying yes to recycling.” You wonder if the statement represented the words of the wearer, or from Mr Armani himself....
...There was “Upside Down” for Diana Ross; “He’s the Greatest Dancer” for Sister Sledge; “Like a Virgin” for Madonna; “Let’s Dance” for David Bowie....
...In further reading, though I'm months behind, I caught up recently with the disturbing Atlantic piece from last summer by Jean Twenge, adapted from her book about "iGen", the cohort born between 1995 and...
...I stand at the feet of a snow sculpture of Buddha bigger than any stone equivalent I’ve seen in Asia, and watch two men pull an ice teddy bear in a child’s plastic sledge past a fried chicken restaurant....
...In the early days, the ore had to be dragged out on sledges....
...Visits involved awkwardly greeting a stream of aunties wearing M&S cardigans and wigs, speaking Twi, relaying stories I didn’t understand....
...Sometimes there is so much noise that I turn up the music I’m listening to, not to create more of a disturbance, but in order to shut out other sounds....
...There are not many places where Beethoven’s Ode to Joy is followed by Sister Sledge’s “We Are Family”. But the European People’s Party congress is not a normal event....
...“I’m like, ‘We’re not a commodity, we’re here to do a job,’” she said. Still, she has faced far worse....
...They come in with a sledge hammer and they are self-confessed predators,” he says....
...The cold is hitting me like a sledge hammer, smarting and prickling through every nerve ending....
...Despite being four dogs short of a pack — and my audible curses for not donning goggles — I’m astonished to realise that I’m putting up a good chase....
...For details of the anniversary celebrations, see engadin.stmoritz.ch/150years Photographs: M Weintraub/Engadin St. Moritz; Imagno/Getty Images...
...“It’s a shame, I’m sure more people would have come if they had known about it,” he said. “The pro-union camp could have put on a much better show here.”...
...The sledge can be upside down but as long as we cross the line, we get a time.”...
...“I love writing about embarrassment because I’m very easily embarrassed myself. It’s because I’m a self-conscious, analytical, swotty type.”...
...I’m very excited to own a little bit of mythology. Everyone else seems more excited by the schnapps. Our afternoon stop is at the bubbling sulphur pools and steam vents at Hverir....
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