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...It’s the Inter-Generational Make-up Wars in our house....
...If an actor is playing an elf, you’re going to want the pointy ears....
...Elf Bars, for instance, are available in more than 40 flavour varieties including “green gummy bear”, “lemon tart” and “cherry cola”....
...Sitting on a love seat in the middle of the room, she speaks in a low, silky voice with a touch of east London, between sips of Monster Energy and puffs of a peach pink Elf Bar vape....
...In 1926, writing to Vita Sackville-West, Woolf conceded that he was “the devastation of all hearts”, and “sprightly as an elf”, but those were the limits of the seduction....
...The pools sit on a 1,200-acre private estate which traces its roots to the 12th century and claims to be the site of “one of the best-known elf dwellings in Iceland”....
...ESG does neither much good nor very well (WSJ $) — Meet the young people working for the world’s most evil companies (Vice) — Making an enemy of luxury during the Enlightenment (Lapham’s Quarterly) — Elf...
...It is in the tropes he created, his codification of the basic rules about what, exactly, an elf, an orc or a dwarf is like....
...Nine-year-old Holly Carroll is as Noël-mad as her parents, so when they buy a house on the aptly named Sleigh Ride Avenue, it’s like all her Christmases have come at once....
...Eleven years ago, American journalist Joe Nocera bought a home in the Hamptons next to the biggest house on the street....
...dismissed Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases — a veteran of the Aids crisis and then a leading advocate of Covid public health restrictions — as a “little elf...
...But the shortage of elf club houses available for purchase is a mere distraction when, at this rate, we’ll be lucky to get so much as a Brussels sprout to eat....
...off Edinburgh’s grubby Leith Walk into the pool of calm that is The Little Chartroom and there, on the table, is a basket of wild mushrooms that looks like it was just dropped off by some forest-dwelling elf...
...I visited last weekend, and Poklewski Koziell showed me a brilliant box full of Christmas tree brooches (from £25), which were the right side of kitsch, unlike a polyester elf jumper....
...WoodsBy Amanda Neville and Emma Neville (£13.99) From the family who run the Audley End Miniature Railway in Essex comes this enchanting illustrated children’s book, which tells the story of a naughty elf...
...Tourists who make it to the town this summer will also find walking tours of the locations, a recreation of the elf houses and the Jaja Ding Dong bar at the Cape Hotel....
...We have few rules in our house. But on one thing I remain firm: no Bublé can be played before December....
...Utopia Avenue, his first novel since 2015’s Slade House, marks a departure from these sprawling and ambitious works....
...of archives, team How To Spend It has spent much of the summer shifting our own digital back catalogue from the HTSI website so that we can relaunch under the umbrella of the FT (less shelf worth than elf...
...asks Andrew Adonis, a colleague in the House of Lords. Clerical critics, meanwhile, see Welby as too political, too managerial and insufficiently mystical....
...Before government security men can succeed in separating my photographer husband Don McCullin from his camera at the lentil market, I haul him off to the terrace of the best Italian in town, The Spaghetti House...
...At first glance, Utopia Avenue is a much more traditional affair than Mitchell’s last two novels, the apocalyptic, time-travelling The Bone Clocks and its companion piece, Slade House....
...Elf Dalia , by Maja Daniels, Mack, RRP£30 Isolated by forests and lakes, where its people speak the near-extinct language of Elfdalian, the Swedish valley of Älvdalen is a land of myth and faery tales....
...Key scenes from Christmas films such as Elf, our hero ecstatic on the Etch-A-Sketch production line, or Meet Me in St Louis with Judy Garland singing “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” with Technicolor...
...As the pages turn, our elf hero wakes up, gathers comrades and embarks on a quest through a fantasy realm, battling enemies until finally he faces and defeats the end-of-level boss....
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