Hints and tips:
...“Laura, you’re such fun — I’m very pleased you’ve come on board for the Negroni!”...
...I sit on my balcony and watch the sunset gild the surrounding pines....
...The rooms are all light timber and large sash windows, many giving onto Long Island Sound views (just below the bluff is 200ft of private beach; the paddle boards are complimentary)....
...Back in the 1970s and ’80s, the role-playing fantasy board game was the province of furtive clusters of boys in airless bedrooms and less-travelled corners of schools....
...Cypress and pine trees rise above tiled terracotta roofs. A network of underground corridors, nicknamed “the metro”, links the women’s section to the men’s....
...“I used to solve cryptic crosswords at the back of the class at school,” the 84-year-old says. “It was just a words thing, I was looking for a diversion.”...
...In the tiny northern harbour, I ran into Annika Kristensson, who runs the boats taking the island’s children to school across the water....
...Afterwards, I followed the path, shaded by pine trees, north....
...Together they listened to a school orchestra play Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy”. The children, von der Leyen pointed out, were from the European School in Brussels, which she once attended....
...Pudding was a pine nut-rich cassata of buffalo ricotta....
...Here in Tuscany, you can kayak and paddle-board on a private lake, learn to make rustic cheeses in an adjoining farm, or be pummelled by a masseur in the wellness centre....
...The FT editorial board opines that the WTO is on life support, but the world still needs it....
...On one wall is a cork board pinned with personal notes, postcards and mementoes that include their own wedding invitation....
...I can go to the park and throw pine cones with my daughter after school, meet Mum for a milkshake after she leaves work....
...Here the Scottish novelist found solace in isolation; the pine-clad landscape conjured images of mythical creatures and wild beasts....
...Nakate started her activist career in 2018 as the lone Ugandan participant in Thunberg’s school strike movement....
...The hourly rate has become the minimum at the Vail ski resort in Colorado, Universal’s theme park in Orlando and the Tyson Foods poultry plant in Pine Bluff, Arkansas....
...(Kayak and paddle-board rentals are nearby too.)...
...It’s an instantly bucolic place of jade pastures, clunking cowbells and fragrant pine forests, and has been a Dolomite staple since the earliest days of tourism....
...Branksome Park is a pocket of Canford Cliffs popular for its large plots divided by pockets of towering Monterey pines....
...FT management editor Andrew Hill says workers will eventually return because they miss their colleagues, not because they pine for the material perks of an office....
...There are the old oak, pine and cherry trees on the perimeter that conceal almost all views of the Tokyo skyline....
...But it was a pinnacle moment for fashion, photography and advertising – and the Hotel du Cap, he acknowledges, was properly old-school grand....
...They are, after all, going to enter a severely changed world, where the pandemic has called the bluff of all those who pretended school and university were already preparing them to be more resilient, flexible...
...It features a school, a dormitory, apartments for about 150 residents, a rustic synagogue built from pine logs, a woodworking shop, a football pitch and a nearly-completed rehabilitation centre for the infirm...
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