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...The property is on a two-acre plot and has views of the surrounding greenery as well as the mouth of the river Lee....
...A broad, brown river steers its way though slopes forested with spruce and birch....
...The garden also shows visitors to RBGE what they can do at home. “Whenever we’re working on it, people come up to ask what we’re doing....
...Choruses of sun-coloured birch and coppering beeches complete the performance, each tree etched in morning-blue shadow like a soloist....
...This includes teaming white-barked West Himalayan birch with underplanted black grass Ophiopogon planiscapus Nigrescens; white snowdrops; and evergreen fern Polypodium vulgare....
...“Every owner will be able to see the Manhattan skyline, the East River and the Statue of Liberty.”...
...In the 1980s, my family would set off thrillingly early from our home in Nottingham — where I’d goggle at the small-hours streets, eerily deserted beneath Home Ales hoardings — to make the long drive along...
...(Morningstar) — How British Gas debt agents break into the homes of the vulnerable. (The Times) — Pimco on yesterday’s Fed meeting....
...The 21-acre site is now home to a host of unique spaces, each thoughtfully outfitted with home comforts: the little casita boasts a midcentury birch kitchen and the space-age silver trailers have cosy beds...
...Eventually, an estate agent called mum to say that he had found a small terrace across the river that they might be able to afford....
...They carried instruments that appeared to be testing for radiation and instructed the local school to send its children home for the day....
...Today, it’s that idea of home that Shrubsole is trying to preserve....
...Green space rolls down to the river. No less an entity than the US government has moved its embassy nearby from grander Mayfair. So why is it so deathly? No through traffic. Few cars at all, in fact....
...Since the first lockdown in 2020, the couple have started using their mill workers’ cottage on the river Stour as their main home....
...Despite the clatter from a road along the River Tay, alpine plants cascade down Branklyn’s hillside against a background of rare maples, rhododendrons and a birch tree with pink bark, grown from seed found...
...Walking back from the bar, I spotted something that made me feel very alone and a long way from home....
...I’ve been eyeing up Belgian interior designer Jean-Philippe Demeyer’s new birch veneer tray for the Swedish brand Svenskt Tenn....
...A worn-out Macmillan looked increasingly ill-equipped to deal with a changing world, not least because “the only television at Birch Grove, his home in Sussex, was in the servants’ hall”....
...It accompanies me up hills, along rivers, through woodland. If I spot something of interest, I unzip my pocket and pull out my knife....
...Instead I’ll walk down to a graveyard above the river. Thirty years after leaving the family home, there are now more dead to visit than living....
...The Mongol hordes went home, and we never heard from them again....
...They don’t want your fluorescent Speedos — they have designed costumes for you, which you can keep when you go home. One evening I ask to sleep in one of the cabins on the river....
...A St Petersburg address book WHERE TO EAT Birch Launched in late 2017, Birch is a joint project of four partner chefs — and at least one great designer....
...which the Randselva river flows....
...At various moments he crouches to smell wild garlic, spots brook trout darting through a stream and pauses to admire the sunlight on the birch trees....
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