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...After a rainy start to the year, the hillsides were, unusually, brilliant green. Bright orange poppies, California’s protected state flower, dotted the verges....
...Elysian also offers a small selection of baked goods — muffins, scones, cookies et al — that are all made in house using butter or olive oil (rather than the mass-produced seed oils often found in commercial...
...That was one of the conclusions reached by Ratschen et al in their study “Human-animal relationships and interactions during the Covid-19 lockdown phase in the UK”....
...That is camel’s food!” After breakfast, we would break camp and load up the camels....
...At last, the food arrives. “Very green,” says Davis, inspecting it, and she is right....
...Selections by Tim Hayward … GARDENING Seeing Flowers: Discover the Hidden Life of Flowers, by Teri Dunn Chace and Robert Llewellyn, Timber Press, RRP£20/$29.95 Flower porn....
...DNA profiling has shown that Pignola Valtellinese and Pignolo from Friuli are completely distinct (Fossati et al. 2001; Salmaso et al. 2008)....
...al/mother of four – she is Just Like Everyone Else, this seems to be going to extremes....
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...Garden gear: Green walls One of the items in vogue at this year’s Chelsea Flower Show was the green wall or vertical garden, in which anything from grasses to bulbs surge over interior and exterior walls...
...Accastillage was presented at Maison et Object in Paris in January....
...What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
...The terraced gardens and courtyard were re-planned by our good friend, landscape gardener Spindrift Al Swaidi, who has won prizes at the Chelsea Flower Show....
...Stairs covered in traditional green ceramic tiles lead to two floors of colonnaded galleries overlooking the courtyard....
...He was a “working man of the theatre” - arguably (but not in every respect) superior to Dekker, Middleton, Jonson et al, and no different in kind. He lived in a real world....
...THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GUILTY PLEASURES edited by Michael Moran et al John Murray ₤12.99, 352 pages Classic toilet material: its half-page alphabetical entries are eclectic, opinionated tilts at icons and...
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