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...The best souvenirs I’ve brought home are stones. I love to travel light – I only ever take a carry-on – but I always bring back stones....
...In 2020 she became the first woman in years to run a core operating division at the storied Wall Street bank, often a crucial stepping stone to the C-suite....
...From the “heather and harebells” to “the sunlit green of the mosses, their spongy filaments softening the stone, frescoed lichen”, the beauty of the countryside sustains and nourishes Emily’s soul and imagination...
...Heather Scott got a fourth. “It was terribly upsetting,” she says. “Even now I’m not sure that I really want to keep it in the house.”...
...“You have quite properly decided to leave no stone unturned in your search for the truth about government decision making during the pandemic,” he wrote....
...We walked south through Littondale, pinstriped with stone walls, beside a river fringed in orchids and wild pansies....
...On the slopes immediately beneath her, sharing her weather and her view, are standing stones and burial mounds marking Iron Age graves....
...History buffs can hike along Hadrian’s Wall — the 73-mile stone boundary erected by the Romans from AD122 — and visit the Duddo stone circle, a mini-Stonehenge from the early Bronze Age....
...In Ryan’s show, brightly coloured crocheted sacks hang from the walls and ceiling, containing seeds, fruit stones and fragments of plaster....
...Patrick McGee, San Francisco Correspondent Among the best and most original features I read all year was this profile of a professional stone skipper — Stone Skipping Is a Lost Art....
...Sitting on his patio near a crackling fire in a large stone fireplace, Schwarzenegger dismisses further speculation: “I don’t think about it. Why waste time on it?...
...You take them for granted, these sheep, but they are very much part of the Peak District landscape – sheep, heather and those incredible stones....
...With its thick stone walls and battlements, the monastery looks more like a fortress....
...Also in the garden is a stone marking the last stage of the pilgrim’s way to the Sound of Iona....
...The beaches’ round stones have been pummelled by Atlantic storm surges into bone-white polished discs. Loch Tarbert cuts a long gash through the island’s middle....
...Nicola has added plants that the bees particularly like: especially lavender, heather and borage....
...Its ghostly outline appeared on a beach of cracked mud in this summer’s drought, the stones warmed by the unfamiliar sun....
...Proximity to the M4 motorway and easy access to Bath have also put the prettier honey-hued stone villages of the south Cotswolds on buyers’ radars, according to Alistair Heather of Savills Bath....
...Patients can shed as much as a stone in two weeks: I end up losing about five pounds....
...Peanmeanach sits beside the gently curving shoreline at the far end of the Ardnish peninsula — 3,500 acres of mountains, lochs, heather and herds of deer, undisturbed by a single road....
...There’s also horse-racing at local courses, fell running and yomps across the moor – including up to Simon’s Seat, on the Abbey’s land – with picnics in heather-thatched huts using produce from the estate...
...cheddar, Marmite, Wiltshire truffle, Scottish heather honey and Exmoor caviar....
...The Danish distillery Stauning kilns its Smoke Single Malt with a mix of heather and Danish peat....
...It sits on the edge of the Nidderdale Valley in the eastern Yorkshire Dales — an area of Outstanding Natural Beauty with heather moorland and limestone gorges....
...Cattle lifted their heads to watch me pass, peering over their stone walls....
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