Hints and tips:
...I don’t believe I’ve ever been bored in my 83 years, and I’m sure I’m not alone. After all, the word itself didn’t even exist before the start of the 19th century — or is that a boring detail?...
...“I’m never fully off because I’m never fully on,” he said, speaking to me as his psychotherapist....
...“I tell myself, I’m just a lump of flesh. There are a lot of electrical impulses, and I can be very easily manipulated. These first 10 minutes of my walk are going to suck....
...This kind of wild environment is integral to everything I’m doing here. Everything connects.”...
...Several analysts identified Beaver drones in videos published online during the Moscow strikes....
...London brawling Full disclosure: I’m an old City lag. So I’m hardly devastated that HSBC plans to move its headquarters back here from Canary Wharf....
...Built using locally sourced materials — timber from an old barn, unfired clay from the site’s soil, linseed oil and rye flower — the new house is born from its environment, a place where beavers and water...
...But contribute to creating the requisite conditions for beavers to return, as is happening now in Portugal, and that gives a completely different feeling.”...
...As is so often the case, the first thing that St Hilda’s new men did was to seize power....
...I’m all the more convinced by her thesis when I take her quiz and am revealed, as I’m naturally hoping to be, as a Parisian perfectionist....
...Cave assembles stuff with the voraciousness of a magpie and the industriousness of a beaver....
...Indeed, Belvoir (pronounced Beaver) Castle, which sits like a crown on the nape of a high hill, has a dramatic past....
...When I’m recommending hotels, I usually think of The Arrabelle at Vail Square, set in the middle of Lionshead Village....
...To find out I'm visiting two properties at different stages of the rewilding process. The first, the Knepp Castle Estate. In mediaeval times, this would have been very, very common....
...“I’m not a farmer and I don’t have any land, so it’s not something that I have a tangible link to,” says Metson Scott. “It set me thinking, who is rewilding?...
...The son of a crocodile hunter, he started Tropic Air 31 years ago with just one de Havilland Beaver but now has a fleet of planes and helicopters....
...In other words, I’m going to stop watching mice videos, captivating though they are. henry.mance@ft.com...
...“I’m still learning how to fly it,” he chuckled as we taxied across the grass....
...Hilda BurkeLondon W6, UK...
...By the fourth dam, you will no longer feel sorry for the beavers....
...The result is that we still often see wild animals — wolves, sharks, even herbivorous beavers — as threats and disruptive presences....
...Duncan and Vanessa would design the pieces and then Duncan’s mother, Ethel (and sometimes his aunt), would beaver away turning them into embroideries....
...Now I’m just trying to cope with demand,” says Alastair Driver, director of the charity Rewilding Britain....
...Hilda Burke London W6, UK...
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