Hints and tips:
...Wall Street investors are deploying flocks of sheep to trim the grass covering their solar panel installations as they seek to burnish their green credentials....
...“Let’s kick it into the long grass” is a phrase you are bound to hear if you work in government for long enough....
...Curators Jay Clarke, Trine Otte Bak Nielsen and Jill Lloyd have wisely avoided a chronological show. That decision spares us the grim arc of Munch’s decline, which was early and steep....
...It’s a blustery day in August, the wind swirling around the thigh-high grass and onto the wraparound porch of The Saloon, a modestly sized log cabin that’s part living room, part dining room and bar, with...
...All the cut grass is carted away and bags of Dixter hay are then sold or given to visitors....
...The true genius of the place is the landscape garden beyond, which descends a sloping grass bank to the river Cherwell....
...Instead of a roof, there is a carpet of grass over bulges where the house is hidden below....
...Only by sharing wide areas could a village’s collective cows gain an almost guaranteed bellyful of grass each year....
...So why wasn’t it a compelling offer to potential members — especially as the David Lloyd Club some 30 minutes drive away with no grass courts costs twice as much to join?...
...“This cannot be kicked into the long grass. The FCA, HM Treasury and Dame Elizabeth must think innovatively about how the investigation can report quickly.”...
...So is the yellow-flowered Inula hookeri which the great Christopher Lloyd kindly gave me from his garden at Great Dixter. It has taken 10 years to remove it from too much of my border....
...Was also produces Blue Note sessions — Wayne Shorter and Charles Lloyd, for example — but only when asked....
...She had the idea for her gravel garden during a trip to New Zealand with gardener Christopher Lloyd....
...Clusters of deep lilac flowers led the eye across lightly mown grass....
...Brexit-induced jitters have played a part in turning investors off Lloyds, RBS and Barclays, which have the biggest exposure to the fortunes of the UK economy....
...We hoped, by digging out old roots, the grass would grow Over lines drawn in war rooms....
...Grass in lawns turned brown as usual, but when the drought persisted beyond July, much of it died off, especially on dry sloping banks....
...Among the heather and the brambles, the golden grass and brown bergenias, such old friends as scented sarcococca, the reliable Christmas box and some excellent hellebores have their place too....
...Black Horse, an iconic part of Lloyds, topped the rankings for gripes about insurance policies, receiving 5,400 complaints per 1,000 policies in force....
...“Has this now been kicked into the long grass?” asked Philip Meadowcroft, a former HBoS shareholder, asked of the first probe during the AGM....
...Banks may have paid enormous conduct fines, and put a few notorious bosses out to grass — their paths eased by vast bonuses and cast iron pensions....
...Such an aesthetic has its roots in the mythical English cottage garden and has been defined by various figures such as Gertrude Jekyll and, more recently, Christopher Lloyd....
...Mr Burnham, 46, who was the favourite for the national leadership until Mr Corbyn’s surprise victory, has tried to reach directly to the party’s grass roots....
...The Bank of England last month kicked the prospect of an interest rate rise further into the long grass as it kept rates on hold for the 83rd month....
...Mr Irranca-Davies described that investigation as being “parked in the long grass”. Both Mr Richards and Mr Shabir gave information to the SFO in 2013, the MPs said....
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