Hints and tips:
...It all started last summer when I spoke to a marine biologist, hoping to cover a mass stranding of about 50 pilot whales in Scotland....
...Or sometimes I call them cave dwellers, C-A-V-E — consistently against virtually everything. Isabel Berwick(Laughter) That’s brilliant....
...Especially as, contrary to the impression I may be giving, I’m not very good with plants....
...Sometimes I leave it for a few weeks, but if I’m going to be performing I am very stern.”...
...I’m thinking of calling it Just Start Oil. WhatsApp to Stephen: Volpone Bank has asked us to help plan its summer corporate hospitality strategy. They’ve got plans for Wimbledon and The Oval test....
...And I’m just standing in the middle of the field, making jokes to them. It makes me feel so tiny. I try not to think about it.”...
...I’ve read Michael Pollan’s book but I’m leaning more towards this one....
...It’s not a popular view, but for me, the advantage over last summer’s endless heatwave is both reduced pot plant anxiety and the ability to move fingers over a keyboard without feeling like you’re melting...
...“I’m a big ’80s and ’90s girl....
...A Russian doll I won’t provide an endless exposition of the project here, but if you’re interested in the broad concerns that led to the government’s independent assurance review, this piece from last summer...
...Ethan WuYou know what I’m short, Katie?...
...At a 50th-birthday dinner last summer, the hostess was struggling to open the champagne. “Get Nick to do it, he’s brilliant at it,” someone said....
...But I’m the last person you should ask....
...You can see the effort it takes to restrain his impatience with new wife Sibyl’s endless questions about Amanda....
...The “M” is for munitions; on impact it explodes in a ball of flames....
...“It looks cool and put together with an air that says ‘I know what I’m doing’.”...
...“When I want a new piece, I go straight to a thrift store, where I’m sure to find what I’m looking for....
...But for now, I am immersed in endless shades of silver — glistening fog, sparkling rock, mercurial water. As I pick my channels, I look and look again....
...“When I’m on the factory floor painting, all the staff are excited about what I’m doing — especially when I mention that I’m a Stokie,” she says....
...I’m like an emerging artist but with more wrinkles.”...
...“I’m not going,” she told her. “I’m taking you now.” “I’m not going!” Perplexed, Magrath stood and pulled on Anne Marie’s arm. Anne Marie clawed on to the wall. “I’m not going!” she shouted....
...So I’m kind of hybrid, but I’m hybrid hour by hour rather than day by day....
...I’m standing in for Tony Barber, who will be back for next week’s edition. You can contact me at ben.hall@ft.com....
...Don’t be scared by a shorts suit — it is the obvious alternative to a trouser or a skirt suit in summer....
...“On boiling summer afternoons I’d escape in there,” he says....
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