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...Pergola Paddington, 5 Kingdom St, London W2; pergolapaddington.com The Orangery and Garden at Number Sixteen A resplendent garden of Mulberry trees, blooming hydrangeas and a wooden pagoda by a koi pond...
...In his 2014 book Blue Mind, marine biologist Wallace J Nichols describes the effect water has on the human brain as “a mildly meditative state, characterised by calm, peacefulness, unity, and a sense of...
...Across the pond Bank of England watchers are expecting a 25 basis point increase when the Monetary Policy Committee meets on Thursday....
...“[B Corp] commitments have accelerated our performance,” J Schwan, chief executive at Kin + Carta, told Moral Money....
...Camp Caribou opened its doors in 1922 on a peninsula that juts into the cool waters of Pattee Pond. It caters for boys aged seven to 15 for one or two-month sessions....
...@alternatepools – 19.8K followers“In a world where pools outnumber people” – @alternatepools is a trove of aquatic dreamscapes by Austin-born J Lee McClusky....
...When J Sainsbury boss Mike Coupe failed in his takeover of Asda, retail pundits had no shortage of advice for him....
...At which point, I yelled three letters at the television: L, B and J, as in Lyndon Baines Johnson....
...And everyone knows that Europe needs a banking champion to rival Wall Street behemoths, who have had a much better decade than their peers across the pond. Oudéa is ready to take the plunge....
...Panting, legs burning, you eventually pop out on to tranquil Pond Square, where you turn left, freewheel down Highgate West Hill, then do it all again....
...Walpole kept the bowl in Strawberry Hill’s cloister but, even so, installed a goldfish pond in the new garden....
...Mislav Matejka at J.P....
...(WSJ) Pond is a chasm A decade on from the financial crisis, US banks dominate the world in terms of assets and profits while European institutions have stagnated....
...They could cut it from rivers and ponds on their estates and store it in purpose-built ice houses....
...The British, for example, have a habit of looking across the pond and concluding that America’s politics are coarse and divisive....
...martin.wolf@ft.com Letters in response to this column: Republican plutocrats’ greed could outlast Trump / From From Harold J Smith, White Plains, NY, US Predictions from across the pond aren’t always...
...For four of those years he acted as adviser to the J Paul Getty Trust....
...J Sheekey. I often go to the bar alone, to eat, drink and read the newspaper. It’s super-relaxed....
...In a view of Bayonne, N.J., that Graham referred to as “my Judd”, garage doors line up like soldiers awaiting inspection....
...J Sainsbury, one of the UK’s largest grocery chains, said in October that it was testing quicker checkout methods, including a shopping app....
...“idealist” Turner, “realist” Jongkind and “analyst” Cézanne into something unpredictable and accidental, using smooth paper that would not absorb the wash too quickly, allowing it to settle in “little ponds...
...The 17.5-acre estate includes a row of six cottages, a coach house, an arboretum, ponds and woodland....
...Don’t fish in my pond and I won’t fish in yours. And if you try, my government will whack you with duties....
...“The Pond” (1950) centres on a crusty white oval, filled with pleasure boats but suggesting a bombed-out crater, around which domed factory roofs and viaduct arches rhyme with the curve of enclosed water...
...michael.skapinker@ft.com ——————————————- Letters in response to this column: Summer is all about frivolities / From Ms Stephanie J Mitchell Va-va-voom service / From Mr Rudy D Blake No need to go far...
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