Hints and tips:
...The deaths of pets are so painful! We have three wonderful cats now. Risk or caution, which has defined your life more?...
...This is true for generations of Pitcairners, several of whom are in the island’s cemetery (John Adams has a separate plot)....
...The twinkling of electric candles in the cemeteries. And then advancing a little further inland — pine plantations. Foresters’ tracks....
...They arrive nestled in a beetroot and tahinia paste, sprinkled with pine nuts....
...Just around the corner lies Warriston cemetery, where his elderly neighbours, Harry and Peggy Doig, would walk their alsatian and feed the foxes....
...Kilmartin Glen has the richest concentration of prehistoric monuments in Scotland: standing stones, stone circles, a linear cemetery of burial cairns, mysterious rock carvings....
...There is a great lodge just across the bridge called Yamano where your pets can stay, and you can do your own barbecue too....
...snaps of her and her 12 siblings, but also older photographs: pictures of her grandparents and the farm they owned before it was lost during Mexico’s land reforms, a tiger her father apparently kept as a pet...
...Pudding was a pine nut-rich cassata of buffalo ricotta....
...The effect is eerie — like Don Giovanni’s marble Commendatore suddenly uttering in the cemetery. Poussin similarly holds life and death in balance in “Revel”....
...Their favourite haunts are places we visit little — neglected gardens, cemeteries and railway embankments....
...That’s like pine. And Ask is ash. All these Scandinavian names, they’re all trees.” “Ekstedt”, means “oak” or “where the oak is”, he says. “We’re sitting under an oak as well. That’s nice.”...
...And intrusions — by flatmates, pets or feral children — will be tolerated much more readily. Everyone will have forgotten how to get dressed from the waist down, so expect some funny outfits....
...When doing laps of my local park my thoughts short circuit to a morning fog at Glen Dessary, where a thicket of antlers ghost in and out of the whiteness and the pine woods....
...In this rarefied atmosphere – whispering pines and Whispering Angel, the Riviera’s favourite rosé, left to rest in chilled silver buckets – everything seems right with the world....
...The rocks between are car-sized lumps, steely black, and on some bonsai-like pine trees grow, roots showing in the cracks....
...Locked down in our local neighbourhoods, curiosity can easily be sparked by noticing birdlife on an outdoor walk around a park or cemetery or (for the lucky ones) sitting in the garden....
...Officials have fumigated government buildings, offices, markets, schools and cemeteries with the herb’s smoke twice daily to ward off the virus....
...Give blood, walk more, donate to charity, wear your favourite clothes, find a therapist, stroke pets. It helps....
...The Japanese developed a form of cloud pruning and applied it to to everything from azaleas to pine and Japanese holly....
...It also featured a destroyed Jewish cemetery, whose gravestones had been used as building materials in a nearby town, and a tomb to a renowned Hasidic rabbi, the Chornobyl tzadik....
...In the spinney, pine martens were waiting to check every entrant....
...We climbed a hill to the cemetery where 304 Communards were buried. All Saints Day had just passed — the day when, traditionally, New Caledonians tend the graves of their dead....
...Rome, irritatingly perfect as always, combines rough-edged beauty with edibility in the form of stone pines, whence pine nuts come: the streets are essentially lined with pesto....
...“Many men ended up in Merkel’s ‘cemetery behind the chancellery’,” Bild Zeitung wrote on Tuesday. “Now for the first time, one of them has risen from the dead.”...
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