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...William Dyson runs a nursery specialising in salvias at Great Comp near Sevenoaks in Kent....
...This is exemplified by an enduring myth of the pandemic — the claim, amplified across social media by celebrities from Amir Khan to Woody Harrelson, that Covid is linked to the 5G radio frequency....
...They opted instead for a bright, minimalist cabin in the Kent countryside, stocked with Richard’s artwork and surrounded by chickens, a vegetable patch and fellow artisans....
...It was a two-acre, woody wilderness that had once been a Kent apple orchard but was now covered with impenetrable bramble thickets and stands of self-seeded ash trees, fighting upwards to the light....
...This, along with average rainfall of more than 750mm annually, has made the county a haven for Sino-Himalayan woody plants....
...It is an extraordinary thing, for example, to sit in the Victorian seaside shelter at Margate, Kent, on the bench on which TS Eliot wrote part of The Waste Land....
...Neil LaBute is the Woody Allen of American theatre: every year, a new work. But while Allen may have recycled his signature nebbish in picture after picture, he gave the type new names....
...The two Thai guides, Woody (a man) and View (a woman) are onside with Bam: the first thing they hand out are helmets, then lights, reflector vests and newish Trek bikes....
...Homer, inventor of that bundle of contradictions Achilles, would have been drawn to the caped crusader’s frailties and, I think, a little repelled by Clark Kent’s studied ingenuousness....
...Keaton intersperses her own remembrances with excerpts from her mother’s diary – the book is a family memoir too – as well as tantalising sketches of the cinema greats she dated (Woody Allen, Warren Beatty...
...Add north-east Kent’s jigsaw coastline, and you can feel as disoriented as a recent disembarkee from a speeding merry-go-round....
...Across the rich acres of the Kent countryside, non-food crops such as calendula and echium are growing alongside wheat....
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