Hints and tips:
...The invitation to the house’s spring/summer 2024 show last September featured a reproduction of Alison Watt’s Warrender, a trompe l’oeil painting of a twice-folded, then unfolded, piece of A4 printer paper...
...Touring East Anglia, Ross inspects the roof angels of St Peter’s Upwell, the Fenland church on which Dorothy L Sayers drew for her tantalising 1934 mystery novel of bell-ringers and bigamy, The Nine Tailors...
...It’s a bit like that Monty Python sketch where they say, bring in the machine that goes ping, you know, and it just makes people sort of believe in the science more....
...An L-shaped backyard in London is not Sissinghurst and I will never be Vita Sackville-West, however whimsical my summer wardrobe becomes....
...A wave of privatisations, strikes and recessions, depicted in the 1997 film The Full Monty, ensued. Fifty thousand steel and engineering jobs were lost between 1980 and 1983....
...I’m not sure I want a tiger trompe-l’oeil in my cupboard or a knitted cake stand in my room....
...The high-watt scornfulness was evident back then too, even if confined to off-screen zones....
...Northvolt said the technology had been validated by third parties and targeted energy density of 1,000 Watt-hours a litre by 2025, from about 700 Wh/L in the most powerful batteries today....
...Beauty group Garnier, owned by L’Oréal, promised last year to plant a tree each time a bottle of certain skin and haircare products was sold at Asda, the British retailer....
...Britain’s aristocrats were not as anti-merit as the American republicans believed: the pioneer industrial state was founded on the genius of inventors like Richard Arkwright, Thomas Newcomen and James Watt...
...Shaheen ValléeDirector of the Geoeconomics Programme, DGAP Philipp HeimbergerVienna Institute for International Economic Studies Dirk BezemerProfessor, Faculty of Economics, University of Groningen L...
...Lychnis coronaria Gardeners’ World is not only a reminder there was life before the presenter Monty Don. It has much more impact and much better manners than the single-flowered forms....
...Energy density of conventional batteries has risen about 4 per cent a year over the past two decades to about 700 watt-hour a litre (Wh/L), which translates to a driving range of about 500km in a passenger...
...“For Sama” won the Prix L’Œil d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and Best Director and Best Documentary at the British Independent Film Awards among other prizes....
...For Sama, her first feature film, directed with Edward Watts, premieres in London this week after winning a plethora of awards at the world’s major festivals including the Cannes Prix L’Œil d’Or for best...
...Against the general trend, yesterday Ferrari confidently guided to a V-shaped recovery in its P&L from H2/20....
...Which in Art School’s case were essentially sequinned evening dresses and leopard bustiers sported by models lurching down the catwalk like characters in Monty Python’s Ministry of Funny Walks....
...The main work was more Ravel enchantment, the one-act opera L’enfant et les sortilèges....
...The company hired J & L Staffing & Recruiting, a Sioux City employment agency, to find workers....
...Fire: “Reflektor” REM: “Everybody Hurts” Massive Attack: “Teardrop” Evita soundtrack: “Don't Cry for Me Argentina” Adele: “Set Fire To the Rain” Frank Sinatra: “My Way” Taylor Swift: “Begin Again” Monty...
...And finally: I had thought I was reasonably conversant with the units of energy and power, but this week I discovered a new one: the yottawatt, which is one million billion billion watts....
...In the opinion of specialist, admittedly fairly fanatical, organic wine writer Monty Waldin: “Napa Green is similar to the New Zealand model and accommodates those who cannot or will not ditch the systemics...
...Work by L.S. Lowry, Frank Auerbach, Tony Bevan, David Hockney and Peter Blake also features....
...So is Monty Don, once a retail jeweller, now a television celebrity....
...The stage of the Théâtre de l’Archevêché is naked, a box with walls and floor made of white paper. For the first scene an idyllic garden is projected on to the surfaces....
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