Hints and tips:
...For me, the apparently simple practice of paying attention to what I’d read the previous year had unexpected ripple effects....
...Roy Bland Penzance, Cornwall, UK...
...He often said he’d become a teacher after his premiership, but he isn’t ready for life outside politics. He’d rather exchange his everyday Hague freedom for the constant presence of bodyguards....
...Once you’d clocked the figures in the paintings, they couldn’t be unseen. I spent future shifts wondering how anyone could walk by this Kama Sutra extension pack and not gasp....
...After I’d had enough of McAllister’s diktats, I dived into To Marry an English Lord (1989) by Gail MacColl and Carol McD Wallace, which partly inspired Fellowes’ previous series, Downton Abbey....
...One was that we’d get killed. The other was that we might have to kill someone.”...
...But while the plot delivers a few twists, Pearson and Emory fail to develop much further, with Wade remaining a bland peacekeeper....
...Not only is bashing Disney still central to the political ambitions of Florida governor Ron DeSantis, implausibly, this wilfully bland musical has been snared in the culture war since the 2019 casting of...
...If I can’t drink the proper stuff, I’d say, I’d rather not drink at all. But worsening hangovers – particularly after wine – have forced me to roll back a little....
...He reminds me of another Cork-born legend, the Irish midfielder-turned-football pundit Roy Keane. Both share the same congenital disposition to seem utterly nonplussed....
...But she does, passing off The Last Front as her own, changing her name to Juniper Song at her publisher’s suggestion, until she finally has the life she’d always wanted — even if it happens to be the life...
...Nonetheless, if you’re Rishi Sunak, you know which one you’d rather have on your CV....
...So you’d expect us to be out of that position sometime around then.”...
...Sure enough, politics there has corrected somewhat, with chastened voters turning towards sensible-to-bland politicians as though it were 2005 again. The lesson?...
...“If you’d have seen us that day, you’d have hated us,” a woman’s voice narrates over shots of an attractive young couple happily speeding along in a lurid turquoise convertible....
...If by any chance you encounter a clashing mismatch, a palate-rinse with water (which I try always to drink alongside wine) or a mouthful of something as bland as bread can neutralise it....
...Unlike some of the translations I’d read online, Helle’s translation feels urgent, incandescent, stripped of academic cladding....
...Roy has also been surprised by Nice’s economy....
...Bland, Penzance, Cornwall, UK John Lewis hand dryer is not only thing out of order / From Pete Griffiths, London SW11, UK...
...George Washington probably wouldn’t have been elected if he’d had to run for office. But Biden has to, and in the age of high-speed media to boot....
...“I’d like to take time to congratulate Ron DeSantis,” Trump told supporters on Sunday. “He ran a really good campaign. I will tell you, it’s not easy.”...
...I’d guess Pete’s age at 37, but he turns out to be 65. There’s a touch of Shane Warne about him....
...When Dubravka Ugrešić died at the age of 73 earlier this month, I felt a sharp stab of personal loss, though I’d only encountered her through her ingenious work....
...He’d need us on board. The suggestion here is that holding company has a very small number of powerful votes....
...If I had, I might have given it the swerve and never known the brilliance I’d missed. It did, indeed, cool the fires, but it also expanded the mind....
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