Hints and tips:
...No doubt there will be more to come when Starmer visits the French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris next week....
...A local company, Elektrokeramik Sonneberg, which made electricity insulators from porcelain, was forced to close last year, a victim of surging gas prices....
...Spring beauties in the garden have persisted for an unusually long time, neither wilting in sudden heat nor browning in frost at midnight....
...In Sicily, there was next to no rain from spring until late autumn and even the island’s wild cyclamen carried only about one-tenth of their usual flowers....
...Crocuses keeled over and I had no wish to be working at ground level while rain dripped down my neck....
...In Britain, the former Tory minister Lord David Frost recently declared that we shouldn’t worry because more people die of cold than heat....
...to electric cars and heat pumps....
...So, no doubt, are many of you. The absence of rain and that burst of record heat did damage. It also showed up some winners. In some ways, it showed up me....
...They’re both frost-free (naturally) and run on separate compressors to prevent cross-contamination. Colossal it may be, but the design is exquisite: solid metal, no exterior rivets, screws or joins....
...During the great heat of July and August their green leaves scorched and already turned brown. In December they went brown again just as they had recovered and shown new life....
...There’s no point in trying to work outside in awful conditions. I choose a good day. Lay that one aside, even if it’s a bit later than the books say....
...Yet by no means should all of 2023 Hawke’s Bay wines be rejected....
...But the gold net zero bullshit prize goes to former Brexit minister Lord David Frost....
...Growing techniques have changed to deal with the added heat and untimely spring frosts. Managing the vine canopies produces more leaf shade to protect the grapes....
...Another busy week in Brexitland, albeit one where, on the question of the Northern Ireland Protocol negotiations, there has been more heat than light....
...The grapes are picked by hand and winemakers must hire and often find accommodation for the more than 100,000 temporary workers who do the job....
...Which explains why, as the tracker’s co-author Joël Reland puts it, “the Boris Johnson divergence agenda has produced lots of heat with little light”....
...These were 19th-century labourers, dispatched to Tasmania as convicts for the crime of setting up an agricultural union....
...Perhaps it’s no accident that California, a state where most drivers seldom see frost, announced last month that it would halt sales of new petrol-powered cars by 2035....
...In his time, he was best known as a poet and a hugely popular lyricist — imagine a cross between Robert Frost and Paul McCartney....
...And frost pockets should definitely be avoided....
...Truss herself is feeling the heat. One member of the 1922 backbench committee of Conservative MPs speculated that at least 10 letters of no confidence had gone in already....
...No mustard at all. And while the local corner store has two kinds on sale, one is bright yellow Colman’s mustard imported from England and the other is a “sweet-and-sour” concoction mixed with honey....
...White truffles are up to 80 per cent water, Luca explains, so a bit of rain and some morning frost to help them ripen is beneficial....
...They have had a second, even third, flowering, which has been a joy after the heat of the dry summer....
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