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...The first is Edward James’s Surrealist plot Las Pozas (The Pools), a patch of picturesque insanity a seven or eight-hour drive north of Mexico City....
...His pride and joy is his organic veg patch, which produces a cornucopia of food: “broccoli, kale, lettuce, fennel, cucumber, various melons – which I used to think grew on trees!...
...Criticism of the deal was also often laced with misogyny in a male-dominated shale patch....
...Iain Smith hops through a patch of thigh-high heather, the barrel of a shotgun resting idly on his forearm. “If it looks green and mossy, don’t step on it,” he says. The only way forward is green moss....
...In contrast, George V and George VI died in winter: some of the 305,000 who saw the latter lying in state had to put up with light snow....
...The view from the window was of a wall; if a patch ever caught the sun, one could try to vicariously experience the warmth....
...Most summers bring with them news of some have-a-go hero, an ordinary fellow plucked from the quiet of a suburban patch who performs a feat of noble derring-do....
...As Harry Patch, a British soldier, put it in a BBC interview: “if any man tells you . . . he wasn’t scared — he’s a liar.”...
...(Think of it as a reverse nicotine patch.)...
...Subrahmanian said there were “always vulnerabilities in every system and attackers always have the advantage,” adding that the Ukrainian efforts to patch the holes, “doesn’t mean they’ve managed to find...
...“Well, I make my painting outside that patch of land,” she replies. “But my brain is in that land.” ‘Epic Iran’ opens May 29, vam.ac.uk...
...Her new memoir, Patch Work, is nothing like them....
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...Claire Wilcox is the senior fashion curator at the V&A Museum, a professor in fashion curation at the London College of Fashion and author of Patch Work: A Life Amongst Clothes (Bloomsbury, £16.99)...
...Whichever shape the recovery takes — V, W or L — any emissions decline flattens out by the middle of the decade....
...According to Fiona Czerniawska, co-founder of Source Global Research, which advises the professional services industry, the sudden fall in deals is not the prelude to a V-shaped recovery, where the economy...
...The Khaite cardigan follows the mould — V-necked with two square front patch pockets, but a boxier cut and cropped to the hip for a more flattering and put-together look....
...We arrive at favourable answers for all four: we expect a V-shaped recovery. Even if 2020 is down €-5b, 2021 will be up by €+8b....
...(Project Syndicate) AKK v AfD The head of Ms Merkel’s CDU party has hit out at a “climate of hate” orchestrated by the anti-Islam AfD party, saying polarised politics was responsible for the murder of a...
...Exports from Germany and Spain continue to grow strongly, while in France, President Emmanuel Macron’s reforms , although currently hitting a sticky patch, are shifting the dominant national narrative to...
...Sector peer Costain says it wants to raise £100m to patch up its balance sheet....
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..., and lemon sorrel, whose distinctive V-shaped leaves and tangy, punchy taste (great in a sorbet) are a hit with Fergus and Molly, who head off in search of more “lemon soil”....
...Often they were also sewn with a patch of a rabbit or a pig, the kind you used to buy for kids clothes from a local haberdashery....
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