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...He can also remember, as a boy, collecting a scorpion in a jam jar. “I used to feed it stag beetles but it didn’t eat them — it was too traumatised, I think.”...
...It looks like a Wales of rumpled ridges, oak and beech, gorgeous and rough. Following boar tracks, we plunge along, man and boy both suddenly five....
...was killed by the boy’s family....
...The youngest member of the family, a boy of 11, takes a moment to add: “There’s always plenty of bugs, though.” And it’s true....
...Perhaps the least likely location for the requisite hipster beards and defiant T-shirts is Australia — but, boy, is the movement alive and well there, too....
...frosted vials of rose petals, sequins, glitter and coloured sand held in an oak case entitled “L’Egypte de Mlle Cléo de Mérode”....
...Born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, the self-described “country boy” still speaks with a Southern drawl....
...John could differentiate a sessile oak at 50 yards. Simon walked 70 miles with me and taught me river management....
...Urban scale makes it possible to support the fixed costs of theaters, museums, and restaurants....
...But the mission is failing and the public is willing “our boys” to return. For gleeful ex-subjects it seems clear: a once-great imperial nation is shuffling to the sidelines....
...A coronet sounds, and about a minute later the early birds begin appearing from the low scrub and evergreen oak thickets lining the ridge above....
...The narrow road that runs alongside it twists through woods of beech and oak and filtered sunlight....
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