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...I was grateful for all that dreadful beauty handed down to me, but grimly understood that I must now endure my remaining years unmarked by any comparable joy....
...“Bringing joy is my main aim,” says Pocock. A “really quite sad” playroom at a women’s shelter is transformed with pattern, colour and textured fabric....
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...The valley was slowly being swallowed by shadow as the sun dropped behind a far ridge; I was on a track surrounded on both sides by a thick tangle of beech and silver birch, about an hour’s walk from my...
...You always had, you know, business leaders who were on the right, the John Birch Society and others who were always looking for ways to financially advantage themselves....
...Some vinyl storage capitalises on the joys of cover art....
...The flipside to the intense joy of skiing fresh powder is the frustration of reaching a mountaintop to find the snow already defiled by others....
...Ravinder Bhogal, Jikoni There is a primitive joy to cooking over roaring flames — and the possibilities are endless....
...For a site in Wiltshire, Agius’s studio created a meadow around a mount made from used rubble and planted trees such as lime, birch and oak, which punctuate the space....
...It looked as otherworldly and remote as a Japanese birch forest or the north face of some Alaskan peak....
...At various moments he crouches to smell wild garlic, spots brook trout darting through a stream and pauses to admire the sunlight on the birch trees....
...Poor mum, I sigh, realising that she’d never experience the joy of cold berries among hot bubbles....
...Ash and birch come in by the container-load. And yet, “if you look at firewood, there is no reason to import a single log”, says Driver, who is a forester by trade....
...‘Birdhouse’ by Studio PAULBAUT From Studio PAULBAUT comes this beautiful design that was formed using laser-cut birch plywood....
...There is an almost comical feeling of joy in the swirling vistas of the highest peaks. You feel a sliver of invincibility....
...Many younger people love Russia and its birch trees but they also want to be part of the world — and they find themselves thwarted....
...Another section recounts how he and his wife ordered in advance their coffins — “pine for my wife, birch for me” — only for them to be stolen from their cellar and later mysteriously returned; in Grass’s...
...Most of the passengers seem to have bought birch stools from Artek; those who didn’t have purchased Moomin oven mitts, and the captain-in-command’s name is Antti....
...Fringed with birch, larch, ash, pine and cedar, Baikal is a wind-polished ice rink for four months of the year....
...Hidden among the spruce and birch of the shore, it is not roomy or grand....
...In summer she is up by 5am, and then it’s chores, meditation with her husband, and a two-mile walk through the birch trees, birds and butterflies at her back door....
...Ranevskaya recognises her childhood nursery as the locus for joys now dissolved....
...It’s sheer joy in an abstract form, with a great sense of humour....
...The sky had flattened and turned the colour of birch, with a shade of pink trimming the southerly edges, and we all paused for a moment to admire it....
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