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...studio (prototypes for the ceramics workshop Astier de Villatte, for whom she designs) this is the first time a cat has made its way into one of her tree sculptures, pawing the white enamel trunk of a cherry...
...Abigail Cruttenden brings a wry sense of humour and quiet scepticism to the upright young Queen, while Marion Bailey is very funny as the older, more worldly-wise monarch; Naomi Frederick’s pinched young...
...At the end of a year when movies in cinemas have made at least a tentative comeback, the return of Spielberg on this kind of form puts a gleaming cherry on the cake. In cinemas...
...Within days Marion Maréchal-Le Pen, Ms Le Pen’s 28-year-old niece and a rising National Front star, quit politics....
...(Cherry is a regional leitmotif here: the vineyards share the hills with cherry orchards and, in former times, wines were stored in barrels made of cherry wood.)...
...He leaves his wife Marion, also a Holocaust survivor, and their son Elisha....
...I rate it along with Villa Lante, The Garden of Cosmic Speculation, Liss Ard in Ireland, Little Sparta, Ninna-ji Temple in cherry blossom season and Cranborne Manor Garden in Molly Salisbury’s time....
...“On paper, Vaucluse is a land blessed by the gods, a little paradise, where strawberries and cherries grow,” she said. “But on paper only....
...Over the wall, a weeping cherry tree came into fine pink flower, as it will do again this month....
...Even the cherry blossoms have gone....
...And the cherry blossoms round the tidal basin in spring rival even Tokyo’s....
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