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...Rebecca Rose is the editor of FT Globetrotter...
...Husband-and-wife co-founders Rebecca and Tristram Mayhew hit on the idea during a family holiday in France. The problem they had was that neither had the necessary skills to build stuff....
...Given it was lashing down with icy rain on our brief visit, it was a jolly good thing we didn’t need to leave the building....
...Gloria days Paço da Gloria, an 18th-century estate, has been the northern Portuguese retreat of Londoner Rebecca Illing since 2001....
...“When Russian missiles began to rain down on Ukraine,” as Buskey puts it, “nuance was buried under the rubble and carnage.” At some point, hopefully, nuance will return to Ukraine’s self-narrative....
...“Roads are a record of those who have gone before,” wrote Rebecca Solnit, the American author. The record of this old road bulges with characters....
...So, broadly, we are today where Defra told the companies and regulators to be — with the lowest bills possible, but with a situation where we have sewage in the rivers after any significant bit of rain....
...Any company that wants to release untreated sewage to prevent their system from being overwhelmed, for example after heavy rain, must separately apply to the EA for permission....
...Rebecca Watson is a novelist and the FT’s assistant arts editor ‘Liberation Day’ is published by Bloomsbury Find out about our latest stories first — follow @ftweekend on Twitter...
...In Flight Paths, Rebecca Heisman, an American bird-lover and writer, celebrates another aspect of birds: their capacity to travel astonishing distances....
...Ten to 12 classrooms a day get flooded when it rains, he said, “and in Oldham it rains quite a lot. It’s the drizzle that kills us.”...
...If you are tall (over 5ft 6in), go for full length, as this will work with any hem — and you will be in no danger of looking like you’re putting the bins out in the rain....
...The photographs display his eye for the poetry and texture of the mundane movements of the city: a couple kissing on a rain-dampened bench, glossy taxis waiting in the street, the flash of a red dress....
...There is quiet disbelief in Tilly Tremayne’s decent Rebecca Nurse and in Colin Haigh as her shell-shocked husband....
...Late October — rain in New York. As was his habit, Noam arrived at the studio just after six in the morning. The antechamber was cold....
...“The experience will change according to the sunlight or the cold rain. Expect it to be rugged. There are no cars. We’re telling people to bring their walking shoes.”...
...Around the village of Sant Mateu d’Albarca on a March morning, the woods and fields have taken on a rich palette of dusky green and rust red after a night of rain; the rows of almond trees in the valley...
...as well as masking any external sounds that might wake you up, they connect to an app on your phone from which you choose psychoacoustically designed playlists featuring a menu of soothing sounds – from rain...
...When the concluding title, The Mirror and the Light, was published in March, fans queued in the rain at midnight to get their copy. Now 68, she is a star....
...When Osborne and Silber finally perform Asch’s central love scene in Yiddish, embracing, ecstatically, in pouring rain, it is beautiful and moving....
...Every day as I walk into school, even when it is pouring with rain and I’m badly prepared for a double period first thing with my least favourite class, it feels the right thing to be doing....
...“Ah,” he said beaming, “the rain is good for my baby lemons” before dashing inside to grab a couple of large waxy pale-skinned lemons to show us, including a gloriously misshapen one....
...But the rain stopped and it became the most beautiful sunny day....
...Sometimes the two trails are separate, sometimes what seems distinct is nudged askew: rain in the fictional world provokes a real memory that ends with rain; the dangers of the UK government’s Prevent programme...
...As the chickpea is primarily a rain-fed crop, very deep taproots can be advantageous in countries with highly variable rainfall, such as Ethiopia, and anywhere with an increasingly arid climate....
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