Hints and tips:
...In short, all the ride-ons did well and at least their cacophony warns wildlife to scatter and so avoid meeting the sad end of the hedgehog in Philip Larkin’s “The Mower”....
...Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist party has elected regional agriculture minister and young earth creationist Edwin Poots as its next leader after he narrowly defeated Westminster MP Jeffrey Donaldson...
...barn . . . where the yokels gape” follows a more disquieting reflection: “Better the Dickens you know,” Larkin mused, “than the Dickens you do not know.”...
...GKMP Architects built a neat matching extension to a pebble-dashed home in another of the city’s suburbs, Rathmines, and Steve Larkin used it on the otherwise very modern-looking rear extension of a house...
...Like the Larkin, the building eschews outside views, but it is also grander and freer in its plan....
...the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, they were located around the US – Louis Sullivan’s Wainwright Building in St Louis, Cass Gilbert’s Woolworth Building in New York and Frank Lloyd Wright’s Larkin...
...(When the great British poet Philip Larkin was told by a friend that he was teaching a poetry class, Larkin said, “I hope you’ll come down on it hard.”)...
...Edwin Heathcote is the FT’s architecture critic....
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