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...The only outright misjudgment is “The Great Gig in the Sky”, which ditches Clare Torry’s ecstatic vocal runs in favour of a saccharine spoken-word tribute to the deceased US poet Donald Hall....
...David Hunter makes Henry droll and likeable, and Joanna Woodward, as Clare, has a magnetic stage presence and a wonderful singing voice. It’s sweetly romantic....
...Until 1981 the whole estate had been the home of Collingwood “Cherry” Ingram, the Edwardian plant hunter and prunus enthusiast who saved the Great White Cherry “Taihaku”, reintroducing it to Japan where...
...with cordials and syrups from the farm’s fruit trees, while dinner might include Sutton Hoo chicken terrine en croûte with tarragon sauce and herb and verjus salad, or walnut-blackened venison fillet, hunter...
...Clare Torry was the session singer who devised and performed the ecstatic vocal run in “The Great Gig in the Sky”. “They didn’t know what they wanted,” she later explained....
...Clare, later on in the book, is vulnerable to illness....
...Clare obsessively mapped the devastations wrought on the Essex countryside by the industrial age....
...The new album’s title track set an updated version of Clare’s poem to a drizzly electronic shimmer....
...The company’s chef’s table opened last year as “a stage to showcase the product”, says Hunter....
...But it was during the 19th century that plant hunters, collectors and breeders all contributed to a boom in their cultivation; when the China roses were brought to Europe it opened up new possibilities –...
...The finest hedges in Britain are those planted and cared for by hunters: even as legal trail hunters, they want to be able to jump them with pleasure on horseback....
...For a barometer of demand for properties in his rural West Sussex village, James Clare drops in to the Lodsworth Larder, a community-run shop that supports local producers from craft gin makers to bakers...
...Others, like chef Clare de Boer, were weekenders who set down deeper roots during the pandemic....
...record a “Sound Walk” for BBC Radio 3, required recordist Andy Fell, producer Jeremy Evans and me to trek 40 miles eastward into the interior, carrying all we needed in heavy rucksacks and sleeping in hunters...
...One musician accompanied her on the darkened stage, Clare Uchima, who cued beats and played keys. White spotlights and strobes cut through the gloom, a striking effect....
...Strikingly resonant too is Rockaby, a study of aching loneliness, given an excellent tragicomic performance by Kathryn Hunter....
...Franco D’Arino, the dog’s master and principal hunter, carries the vanghetta, a mini billhook. Koko, a white-ish mutt like a labradoodle, is in charge....
...Like Valentino’s Pierpaolo Piccioli, Givenchy’s creative director Clare Waight Keller has had a stellar year....
...Taking a more modest approach is Clare Hunter in the intriguing Threads of Life: a History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle ....
...Research from the London School of Economics, “Head-hunter methods for CEO selection” by Max Steuer and colleagues, suggests that outsourcing the recruitment of a chief executive to headhunters is a sign...
...The buck fled and the hunter returned, met by her sister with pats and licks; a sweetly affectionate and consoling greeting....
...And, unusually, right across the vast country, from Margaret River to Hunter Valley, everyone is bullish about the quality of the 2018 vintage recently gathered in and fermented....
...Horatio Clare Discovery: Lübeck!...
...The hunters sustain themselves with berries and roots; their apprentice used energy bars. Bushmen are persistence hunters, running down buck that are shot with poisoned arrows....
...Horatio Clare’s ‘Down to the Sea in Ships’ (Vintage) has been named Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Details Horatio Clare was a guest of Natural High....
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