Hints and tips:
...At one end of the pool sits an extremely charming pool house made from wood painted pale blue and dark green, with a corrugated iron roof....
...Bees need friends in farmland and woods, but do you want a ball of bees buzzing beside the main path of your garden?...
...Raquel had not considered “what an Ivy League college would be like. She’d been too grateful for the opportunity to have expectations.”...
...One of the houses on the estate, Swangrove, is in the middle of the woods and would make a romantic honeymoon spot....
...Or I’d get them tools from Garden and Wood; they’re second-hand and beautifully restored, proper garden tools, not modern ones that break easily....
...Coton Manor’s main garden covers 6 acres with a wild-flower meadow on 3 more and a superb bluebell wood on another 6....
...One thing to start: If you have been following Bill Ackman’s activist campaign against the leadership of Ivy League universities, you may enjoy this quiz from our friends over at FT Alphaville....
...And when you go in, it’s dark, wood-panelled, red leather booths. It’s also beloved: it’s rated 13th of the 50 best bars in the world....
...“It has that classic eucalyptus and menthol flavour but also fresh-cut wood, birch beer and barnyard.”...
...Just jump on the 243 bus route from Waterloo on the south bank of the Thames to Wood Green in the north....
...“These are people who prefer to have their life in the woods,” she says. “They don’t live with technology and… are often complete outsiders.”...
...Her latest metalwork design, which launches in April, is an oval wall-hung candle wreath composed of brass garlands of climbing English ivy....
...The oval reception room is clad entirely in intricate wood marquetry depicting racing scenes and the bar will feature a 20m-long terrace....
...You need a focal point and some filler, but it is very important that you don’t overdo it, so you can’t see the wood for the trees so to speak. It can be hard to decipher what’s happening otherwise.”...
...Darren Woods, Exxon’s chief executive, said last week that his company was returning profits to Americans in the form of dividend payments....
...We meandered across gorse-covered heaths and through dappled birch woods, over wild streams and rivers where otters play, past gorgeous unspoilt countryside populated only by rabbits, sheep and deer....
...This style, the Bahnhäusle, has been the go-to standard for cuckoo clocks ever since, with its stained wood, carved ivy decorations and cast-iron pine cone weights....
...Multiply your and my world views by the total population of parents of kids in the Ivy League, etc, and nothing would change. Shouldn’t we either refuse to play along or accept the system as it is?...
...The Wolseley and other restaurants in the Corbin & King group, including the Delaunay on Aldwych and Soutine in St John’s Wood, have long attracted a celebrity clientele....
...It doesn’t really matter that its actual location is about 20 minutes’ drive from Inverness’ tiny airport; nor that the 19th-century building is petite but proud, flanked by pillars and creeping ivy and...
...There is more than a hint, too, that Sandy has entered Dante’s dark wood of middle age, confusion and loss....
...Wood praised the rise of retail traders, many of whom use the smartphone app, Robinhood, recounting a story of an elderly woman who began trading equities for the first time after watching Wood on YouTube...
...But recent years have seen its quainter charms eroded by newcomers: among the arrivals are a hot yoga studio, an Ivy restaurant and a beauty parlour called FaceGym....
...homage to the grand brasseries of Paris, Lyon and Alsace, Maison François is a chic all-day eatery near Piccadilly Circus, with elegant art deco-inspired décor and tables separated by latticed glass and wood...
...But Hamm is not a typical American corporate titan with an Ivy League background or MBA. His geological knowledge was self-taught....
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