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...Adoration was one of three world premieres seen in the opening week, along with Heather Christian’s Terce and Huang Ruo’s Angel Island....
...If I had to pick one, it would be ice cream. I grew up in Columbus, Ohio, which is an ice-cream mecca....
...“If you can do it at home and you can compost and bokashi and use it yourself, there is no need for the local council to drive around a great big truck and pick up your food waste.”...
...At a pinch, they might pick up a business book before a long flight, in the hope that, like a cookbook, it will provide a foolproof recipe....
...“You have to pick a lane.” What’s your take on bitcoin and crypto mixers? As always, email me your thoughts at scott.chipolina@ft.com....
...“They’re sexy without being ‘pick me’. Kilts are where schoolgirl and librarian meet. They’re smart but not stuffy.” Thanks to the adjustable straps, they grow with the wearer too....
...His pick for Christmas is the Morrison Distillers Teaninich 2013 9yo Càrn Mòr European oak – “it’s like a very rich figgy dessert”....
...The same applies if the beekeeper puts a kitchen sieve in the way so you don’t eat bits of wax or dead bee, or even if it goes into a jar that you pick up a few days later....
...Why Empires Fall: Rome, America and the Future of the West by Peter Heather and John Rapley (Allen Lane) Western hegemony is in decline....
...The best gift I’ve given recently was a birthday pick-me-up I sent to a good friend, the Westman Atelier Lip Suede in Les Nudes with a lip brush, which I also have myself....
...My mother will be pleased: I’ll never pick up a razor again....
...The scene switches to the University of Edinburgh for Heather Darwent’s The Things We Do To Our Friends (Viking, £14.99), but The Secret History is dimly visible here too....
...Out on their dock, we hauled nets up to pick a dozen fresh oysters from the sea....
...The fells are tinged with the dusky mauve of heather and the scenery is subdued and enveloping, affording a feeling of solitude I’ve not experienced anywhere else in England....
...A few took the time to explain their picks; several others let the recommendations speak for themselves; and a majority ignored our request entirely. So to the minority: ta....
...He picks up the venison, tearing off a chunk with his teeth. Maybe this is the afterlife?...
...Groenveld hoists a forward sail to stabilise the Flying Dutchman as an eye-streaming wind picks up and the deck begins to tilt and roll....
...“Or pick up a piece of fish while I was in the kitchen....
...He picks up a copy of Architecture of Glasgow, its edges frayed with thumbing. “This is the first architecture book I bought in 1968....
...I twice have to thread my way round the packed Shaw’s Fish & Lobster Wharf restaurant before I locate Heather Cox Richardson. It is a flawless midsummer day....
...In a passage dealing with “pick-up artists” — men who cultivate strategies to dupe women into having sex — Power writes almost gushingly about Neil Strauss, author of The Game, regarded as the pick-up bible...
...For Sopaj, who cannot afford swimming lessons for her two-year-old son, Hudson, the pantry will enable her to pick up about £30 worth of food for a £5 fee....
...When credit card companies call, even secretive pornographers would feel compelled to pick up the phone. Patricia NilssonBecause right now they don’t want to talk....
...My top pick is a story that everyone should read as we emerge from the devastation of the Coronavirus....
...Strangest of all to my eyes were trees of giant heather, erica arborea, which for those used to the moorland variety appear bizarrely out of scale, made even more dreamlike by long bearded strands of Spanish...
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