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...A few days later, I saw a pair return to their nest hole in a weathered gable. The swifts scythed past my ear at head height as I stood on the pavement....
...I wonder if there is any common ground. Many young kids struggling with their gender identity went to London’s Tavistock clinic....
...Last week, a verdict was passed down in the case of Walkers Snack Foods Ltd v Commissioners for His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, with first-tier tribunal judges Anne Fairpo and Sonia Gable ruling against...
...I drew the line at common wasps dwelling in our roof space. Our rooms were filled with lost wasps. They were confused, tired and irritable. Us too....
...She believes these changes can handle the “rain bombs”, as Miamians call the intense downpours that have become more common in recent years....
...This 17th-century maison à colombages, common in Normandy but avoided as too picturesque and old-fashioned by the region’s Impressionist and modern painters, is now Hockneyfied....
...The architect originally designed the property for himself, purchasing a three-acre plot with a 150-year-old barn that was given a contemporary overhaul by replacing one gable end with glass....
...Llewellyn’s design studio lies beneath a white trussed and boarded gable roof, like some posh fishing shack that has swapped its salty air for a scented candle....
...Nova Scotia has much in common with its old namesake, Scotland — a dramatic coastline, a cool climate, an overt fondness for tartan — but everything is bigger, grander, stranger....
...“Ability to repay, as a rule, is common sense,” says Nichols. “You’ve got to rely on something other than their word for it, right?”...
...However, long before Lillian’s champagne soirée at Grey Gables with Matt, professional listeners sensed an unhappy ending....
...In the West Country, a steep overhang is typical, and in East Anglia a Suffolk ridge rises into a cone where it meets the gable....
...Housing stock in Parsons Green is typically Victorian and Edwardian, with the undisputed king of the property jungle being the “lion houses”, a string of terraces named after the lion carvings on their gable...
...Once rare, house lifting and structure relocation are now becoming increasingly common....
...In St Brélade, in the southwest of Jersey, Savills is selling Grey Gables, an eight-bedroom family home in 7.5 acres of grounds....
...About half of the ruin is unoccupied, its gable end cleft in two with a zigzag split. “The property’s ruinous nature was part of its joy,” says Tunnell....
...Many investors also fail to evaluate the “give-up” for yield, with common trade-offs – longer duration or higher-risk bonds – not worth the cost today, Mr DeHond adds....
...But Barry Sheerman, Labour MP for Huddersfield, asked the House of Commons why the service was being sold to a Texan company “rather than to the British Navy and Air Force”....
...Naoki Inose, Tokyo’s governor, had to apologise after he said, “Islamic countries, the only thing they share in common is Allah and they are fighting with each other, and they have classes.”...
...Wrapped around a small courtyard, it dripped with pendulous lanterns, the gables engraved with vivid peonies and birds and golden dragons....
...Cuypers was a Catholic from the south and he chose a vernacular that was meant, in its brick gable-towers, to echo the late medieval and Renaissance Netherlands as yet undivided between a Catholic south...
...Lion houses are so-called because their gable ends are decorated with small lion statues....
...“It might have seemed pretty scary at times, but people are calm,” says Mr Gable. “Financial players within and without are undeterred.”...
...It is common to see businessmen staggering on train platforms or passed out on benches as the last train pulls out of the station....
...Larsson’s common-law wife of more than 30 years was in effect left nothing....
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