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...I’m casting a blue-winged olive, a size 24, a little wisp of grey with a green body; about the smallest fly there is, the size of a crumb of bread. I drift this over a few fish. No luck....
...“About eight or nine years ago, one of the staff at Rockhouse came to me and told me she had a son she’d been having challenges with and that he’d finally been diagnosed as having severe autism.”...
...“Before that, I’d look at a tag and I’d think, How has anyone done that with all the CCTV? Whereas nowadays, I’d knock that out at 3 o’clock in the afternoon on a Thursday....
...The most recent one was a ring set with rough black diamonds. And the best gift I’ve received is a 19th-century Japanese lantern from a client, the Belgian art dealer Gisèle Croës....
...Although it also calculates that fuel saved by remote working could eventually offset about 250,000 b/d of that extra demand....
...If I weren’t doing what I do, I would be a land artist in the vein of Andy Goldsworthy and James Turrell, completely immersed in nature....
...James Smith: 2022 looks set to be reasonable for wage growth in nominal terms, albeit concerns about a wage spiral look overdone....
...She started making her own alloys and learnt to make elastic gold and blue gold....
...“For the people on stage, a sitting-down audience has a different energy from someone screaming in your face or willing you on with their body,” says Garcia. “I don’t want a passive audience....
...We booked into Chilvers’ favourite B&B, Lince Casa Rural, with antique, sun-bleached chairs, a beautiful library and bedroom windows flung open to the sound of hooves and stables below....
...“Slot this plane into a lower-numbered B gate at Terminal 4, otherwise the walk to get out is, like, four kilometres long.”...
...It got a record number of likes. (A record for me; nothing to trouble a Kardashian.) And almost all the comments were complimentary. “SWOON!” wrote a friend. She added a blue heart emoji....
...Burials go green in Hong Kong James Wong Wing-kwan, a 67-year-old retired civil servant in Hong Kong, scattered the ashes of his mother at a remembrance garden in the city’s Diamond Hill district a few...
...The tune joined a rich body of American, especially African-American, train songs in the US, stretching from the Delta blues to R&B, although this is a song of retreat rather than escape....
...A lot of Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix and such like. A lot of blues. If you could pack only one thing, what would it be?...
...A manicure always makes me feel groomed and I always wear a dark colour – currently OPI’s navy blue. They are so glamorous....
...Osborne heads for a corner table in off-duty uniform of open-necked blue shirt and dark blue jacket....
...home of Korean “Bar-B-Q”....
...I make my way east on 125th Street from the B train, past hair-braiding salons and street stalls selling bootleg DVDs, beneath the Apollo Theater’s famous blue-and-red marquee and through the plaza of the...
...In this Vietnam-era story, a California family is imploded first by private tragedy, then by the war itself. Yet the author is a Brit writing about a time before she was born. You’d never know it....
...The president arrives on time at 12.30pm, a slender man with straight black hair streaked with grey. He is wearing a dark suit with a pale blue shirt and a diamond-patterned pink tie....
...And in Europe, the Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Cap d’Antibes has introduced a limited edition unisex watch by Ice-Watch (€150), while the Dorchester in London offers a blue or pink baby gift set (£46.50), and...
...Norwegian by Night , by Derek B Miller, Faber, RRP£12.99 Bostonian writer Derek B Miller’s discursive but richly written Norwegian by Night‘s Jewish-American anti-hero is the 82-year-old Sheldon, fearing...
...James Crabtree is the FT’s Mumbai correspondent...
...Musical influences were R&B and soul, the Rolling Stones, Van Morrison, Elmore James. In Springsteen’s case, there was folk too, Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan....
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