Hints and tips:
...Back at the building site, by Friday morning, the zinc roof is on the house and work has slowed to a few volunteers painting the outside a pastel green....
...I pat again, this time a cluster of sculpted foxes with pricked-up ears....
...Then come ergonomic wooden benches and rocking chairs, a fun fountain and little stalls selling tacky paintings....
...The sliced-off black and yellow taxi roof is seemingly sunk into the marble floor under the weight of its rope-tied bundles....
...“This is the room where the original owner did his painting. It’s a north light.”...
...And so in 15 days this house came together: paintings, furniture, everything....
...They were keen astronomers and discovered and named a new star with their telescope on the roof....
...We have to remember that nature has it all worked out.” ——————————————- Favourite thing Painting of Bergen Harbour: “This painting, from 1888, is by the artist Hjalmar Johnssen....
...Letters sent to Jerusalem, asking permission to rebuild, bewail what had been lost: bronze doors, the cedar roof and the gold and silver ritual vessels....
...Toby’s Room , by Pat Barker, Hamish Hamilton, RRP£16.99 Barker, who made the first world war her domain with the Regeneration trilogy, returns to it here....
...Japanese women may apply more than 50 coatings of mascara at one time, making European women – five to 10 coatings – look mere amateurs....
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