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...In his memorable book The Story of Ferdinand, published in 1936, Munro Leaf describes how young Ferdinand, a Spanish bull, loved to sit under a cork oak and smell the flowers of the meadow....
...He does, however, have a more laid-back entertaining option in the form of two Sauzay and de Tonnac-designed oak display tables that can be pushed together for a buffet dinner when required....
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...Working from a converted cowshed in the foothills of the Berwyn Mountains in north Wales, Wheeler draws on the bounty of these hidden landscapes to create elemental oak-leaf candle sconces or mushroom wall...
...I admired the beauty of the patterns in Indian mahogany and in lengths of local oak. The edges have been cut unevenly to leave a rift between the two halves when laid horizontally....
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...As of last year, it’s under new management and has just undergone a tip-to-toe renovation masterminded by the London-based Catalan designers Sagrada, which leans into the alternative-modernist Noucentisme...
...Services are now expected to start in 2029 at the earliest from a new station under construction at Old Oak Common in west London....
...“The management of HS2 will no longer be responsible for the Euston site. There must be some accountability for the mistakes made, for the mismanagement of this project,” said Sunak....
...“Afterwards, he wrote a letter to management, politely removing himself from any further watch exhibitions.”...
...Other plants with allegorical value fill our park – oak trees, cypresses, as well as Rome’s symbol, the pine, Pinus pinea....
...It says nothing about Alnus cordata’s spring catkins, nothing about the popular white-barked birch, Betula jacquemontii, and nothing about holm oaks, Quercus ilex....
...Plum, cherry, oak and ash all grow more profusely. But planes occupy all the best real estate, casting their dappled shade over Berkeley Square and Park Lane, Westminster Abbey and Aldwych....
...On this last point, older Sids could take a leaf out of my book by urging younger Sids to ask prospective employers about the staff pension scheme at the end of a job interview....
...Blue Owl now has $150bn in assets under management. It has acquired a real estate manager, Oak Street, to lead its third leg and insists the disparate pieces fit together....
...All the oak beams are on show and traditional lime render has been applied. Where beams have had to be replaced, there’s been no attempt to distress them....
...Hunt and Sunak agreed to reprieve the Euston leg and put the project under new management, turning the site into a massive inner-city development to raise cash from the private sector....
...Besides the odd Nissan Leaf that turns up, most models have years of life left. EVs comprised just 9.1 per cent of US new car sales in the second quarter of this year....
...One person close to the management of Birmingham airport said: “It’s very short-sighted to chop off the Manchester end....
...SoftBank could take a leaf out of his book....
...Today Tesla and the Chinese brands dominate mass production of EVs as Toyota’s management procrastinates and still thinks there is a future for hydrogen....
...But he suggests that China’s bans on western tech are likely “more retaliatory in nature” and “a fig leaf at best”. Some see other rationales for China’s cyber policy....
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