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...Amador, in the Sierra above Sacramento, is home to a mere 200 souls....
...In the Middle Ages, this was Picts’ country, home to the tough, ancient tribes who held back the Romans....
...had homes....
...The great Irish poet Seamus Heaney described this prehistoric Dane with humane tenderness: “The grain of his wrists like bog oak . . ....
...The lane twists, rises and falls as it traces the young River Teign, suddenly plunging into the shade of old oaks....
...From the front, views over a grassy terrace lead up towards a wooded expanse of oaks, alders, Scots pines and willows through a valley and out towards Glen Isla....
...We could catch an attenuated virus red-handed in a nursing home, where low mortality is paired with high infection rates; or a meatpacking plant in Missouri, where hundreds of workers were reported to remain...
...In the Washington DC suburb of Bethesda is the headquarters of Midcap Financial, which takes money from Apollo clients and lends it to nursing homes, grocery stores and other midsized businesses....
...I’m thrilled to report that he has since adjusted well to life in a nursing home, where he plays the fiddle in the cafeteria and has two girlfriends in opposite wings....
...The stainless-steel bird has a beak made from old oak....
...“It’s my home, my workplace, and any type of other life is inconceivable.”...
...Perhaps the most memorable moment of the trip was a trundle further up into the Glens in a Land Rover with local writer and expert Ian Murray....
...Tightly-packed oak stumps were used in its creation, which, with 160 years of weathering, are now bleached silvery-grey....
...By 1976, though, it was reduced to a dilapidated nursing home that had stood empty for three years....
...I’ve been nursing injuries since I had Bacchus [her son], as I never stopped working. Ambition or talent: which matters more to success? Drive is the most important....
...Warwick has used some of its own budget to fund 25 nursing home beds in the community. Such enlightened arrangements, though, are not easy in a system under duress....
...The last thing I bought and loved was the 12ft oak table and banquette in our kitchen, designed and made by my brother-in-law’s new company, Six Hands....
...What A bright, four-bedroom home with high ceilings, sunny terraces and top-notch security. There is also a pool and a triple garage....
...On either side, oak and rhododendrons sheltered familiar and less familiar plants: delphiniums, small pom-poms of Pterocephalus hookeri and a clumpy Stellera chamaejasme with its pale yellow flowers over...
...Bees buzzed around a hive in an oak tree as I strolled through the ruins and sat on a stone wall to take in the scene over the Drino valley....
...suites” open at Chewton Glen, a grand country house hotel on the edge of the New Forest....
...We often just stop the car at homes with “dégustation” (tasting) signs in front....
...Only five minutes from my home, this short walk takes in open meadows, riverbanks and forest.”...
...Proud of her military upbringing, she joined the Royal Army Nursing Corps in Cambridge Military Hospital, Aldershot, Hampshire, known as “the home of the British army”....
...From here, country lanes lead to Bucklers Hard’s pristine redbrick cottages and the remains of slipways where Nelson’s warships were once built from New Forest oaks....
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