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...“The lack of a harbour means that alighting requires a leap of faith from a chartered boat on to slippery rocks,” Easton says. “Not easy with a large-format camera, tripod, film, tent, food, et cetera....
...In fact, it is challenging in a different way: slippery muddy paths strewn with rocks and branches. Eventually, after crossing peaty brooks and ground covered with ferns, the environment becomes lush....
...A decade later, during the global financial crisis, there was more transparency: when banks such as Northern Rock or Lehman Brothers failed, scenes of panic were seen on TV screens....
...A funky cover of Talking Heads’ “Slippery People” ended with a “yeah!” that landed like a thunderbolt. Staples has never limited herself to gospel....
...The last music I downloaded was Afrique Victime, the album by Mdou Moctar; it’s modern rock inspired by Tuareg guitar music. Portishead is always on repeat on my Spotify....
...I’ve also switched allegiances from the Gel-Kayano to the Gel-Sonoma; they’re the perfect crossover trail shoe, as good on rocks and slippery inclines as they are on flat dirt or asphalt roads (for the occasional...
...Undaunted, the American actor and theatre artist Geoff Sobelle is bringing a show to this year’s Edinburgh International Festival dedicated entirely to this slippery adversary....
...At times we find ourselves running through perilous rock fields, or clambering down treacherous mudslides....
...There’s a sense that the rocks here have stories to tell....
...The paddies open out, country lanes narrow and spectacular karst rock formations appear. Each day is made up of a roughly 100-mile ride....
...And at its base it is granite so [residents] are grounded in the rock of New York City.”...
...They’re slippery these Brexit dividends. Take your eyes off them and, whoosh, off they go: either disappearing or materialising not really as promised....
...The first stop on my journey is a wood-panelled office in Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania, thousands of miles away from Guatemala City....
...It was later sold to a well-known rock star, whom Game declines to name....
...The sea was still, and the flatness of the bay meant that we had to trudge over an expanse of slippery seaweed and large, jagged rocks before reaching water deep enough to swim in....
...Tunnel networks were dug into the rock but left unfinished when the war ended....
...Belly, a 1990s rock band, changed the background of its Spotify profile to an image reading “Delete Spotify”....
...the early 1950s, adults throughout the land faced the indignity of their rebellious teenagers flocking to join gangs of Teddy Boys, with their oily quiffs, violent tendencies and shocking antics on the rock...
...Here, water is a slippery topic that echoes the mind. In the Renaissance, water represented purity: cue Botticelli’s Venus emerging from the sea....
...Analysing ruminants’ burps and flatulence is no easy task at the best of times, never mind when the animals concerned are near-wild, adept at skipping over slippery rocks and strongly dislike being penned...
...Within this cool, green, silent world, lichen hang like bracelets from the branches of the hornbeam and the moss underfoot creates a bouncy, sometimes slippery tread....
...After heavy soaking rains, the roots and rocks can be treacherously slippery, but in the dry season it is a dream....
...We’ve arrived at that moment in a dinner party when you look at the good-humoured faces around you and decide that all the hassle was worth it and you marvel at the very slippery nature of time and history...
...He pressed himself flatter against the rock, working his weight further forwards.”...
...Hipgnosis: slippery when wet The pun in the name of the Hipgnosis Songs Fund is becoming troubling, writes Jonathan Guthrie....
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