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...[MUSIC PLAYING] Some people are now allowed to cross the border from Gaza into Egypt....
...The words might be delivered as you cross the threshold of the country-house hotel, or in the drawing room where you will find a pint extended....
...There is a scent to the Highlands in summer, of myrtle, pine and lanolin, that I can only imagine right now. On day one of this trip we had made a short detour to the stone commemorating my parents....
...The only other Reims machine in the UK is at Charing Cross Hospital, London, where it is used by the oncology department to distinguish between healthy and malign tissue....
...Large terracotta pots planted with citrus trees and formal walkways hedged with buxus or myrtle are regular features, and native plants such as olive and cypress are often seen planted alongside roses, wisteria...
...Could the back-suck from the collapse of the volcano have emptied the Red Sea, allowing Moses and the Israelites to cross to the Sinai?...
...Rainwater filters through the sand, taking most of the nutrients with it, so what plants there are – heather, fragrant bog myrtle, pink lousewort, the cross-shaped yellow flowers of tormentil – tend to thrive...
...For the moment the land is virgin apart from the dry-stone walls that cross a ridge covered with juniper and myrtle....
...There are low hedges of evergreen myrtle which we are starting to risk in ever more parts of Britain....
...Outside a makeshift, now flooded Red Cross shelter that was erected near Myrtle Grove after Katrina, a sign reads: “Free water, shade, and place to sit.”...
...The Southern Cross twinkles in the tar-black sky. In the rosy light before dawn the air smells of horses and of dew on dry grass....
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