Hints and tips:
...“I can write my own narrative as I’m playing.”...
...Especially as, contrary to the impression I may be giving, I’m not very good with plants....
...Spindly laurel branches festooned with cobweb wisps of Spanish moss arch over the orange earth, occasionally parting to offer porthole views of the sparkly Atlantic far below, and — behind and far above...
...“My God, I’m so lonely,” she sang on “Nobody” in 2018. It went viral a few years later as the soundtrack for jokey TikTok videos showing users running away from their problems....
...Like Osmanthus, Prunus lusitanica, or Portuguese laurel, topiarises well but has to be cut regularly or it will build up impossibly tough main stems....
...The bank’s sports team have no time to rest on their laurels, however....
...“I do think I’m very typical in fetishising the past. It’s a very millennial thing....
...Even if Labour wins back most of the seats it lost in 2019, recent history shows the party cannot rest on its laurels....
...“Switzerland is resting on its laurels,” warned Christoph Brand, chief executive of the country’s largest electricity producer Axpo....
...“I’m not more clever than all of the other guys in this industry,” said Höttges....
...She is unfazed by all the famous people and just wants to hear about what Laurel Canyon was like in the 1960s — as, frankly, we all do. I sit back and listen. The baby kicks beneath my ribs....
...Sudan Archives: Natural Brown Prom Queen “I’m not average,” Brittney Parks sings on her second album as Sudan Archives....
...The original 80 rooms have been reduced to 50 to create more suites, including the 227 sq m La Palma suite, which Oetker says is the biggest on the island....
...“I’m a maker — it’s what I do.” Find out about our latest stories first — follow @FTProperty on Twitter or @ft_houseandhome on Instagram...
...All it needs is M A D R I D underneath to complete the look. ¡Que chique! Group 5: Abstract or uncategorisable . . . and the rest....
...We are heaped with laurels, at least superficially....
...Claer BarrettAnd today I’m meeting chief cashier Sarah John....
...Unusual blend of Greek grapes results in a lovely blend of freshness and laurel leaf from a newish winery near Thessalonica....
...“I’m going to do everything I can to stop it because I think it’s stupid, because we are not able to protect our investments in the country,” he said in June....
...I’m tired of all these gestures.” Now a newly founded group, the Black Footballers Partnership (BFP), argues that it is time to adopt compulsory hiring quotas for minorities....
...“The protocol might have solved 75-80 but I’m fearful that if we start again, we wouldn’t get as far as we have now.”...
...“We think markets and economic agents will continue to take a wait-and-see attitude pending more concrete steps,” said Ben Ramsey, head of Latin America economic research at JPMorgan....
...But neither money nor laurels, a new racial identity or even the passage of time makes his work any more palatable now, 13 years after his death....
...Rival investment providers Vanguard and Bestinvest, along with FTSE 100 asset managers Abrdn and M&G, are among those racing to expand in this market....
...“I’m not saying Guaidó is guilty of corruption but he has political responsibility.”...
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