Hints and tips:
...They are content in drought and hardy in frost: 2022-23 has not bothered them....
...Nellie, meanwhile, sits in her cashier’s box at the Amethyst, the tawdry jewel at the centre of her empire, and rakes in the cash....
...(FT, Guardian) Brexit sticking points EU-UK future-relationship talks remain deadlocked on fishing rights and state subsidies as Michel Barnier and David Frost open a third round of “intensified” talks...
...You bedded out days ago, oblivious of the risk of a late May frost. Late frost still happens unpredictably outside London and is a killer....
...Georgian love token rings often used a row of stones – such as ruby, emerald, garnet, amethyst and diamond – with the first letter of each gem spelling a word such as “regard”....
...For scent he picks many, including sinensis Amethyst and floribunda Royal Purple. How avidly I once read their full descriptions and sought them out in the trade....
...For this year’s Opus 12 Emmanuel Bouchet, the designer, frosts the outer ring of the sapphire watch glass to blur into mystery the complex mechanics of the self-rotating hands underneath it....
...He befriended Robert Frost, who was then in England, and already greatly admired. At the age of 37, Thomas enlisted and began writing poems, which Frost had encouraged him to do....
...plums, a sun-burnished forest, a frost-green lawn – a brilliant clarity....
...Sunday): what happened to British comedy under the influence of the Cambridge Footlights, the university club whose alumni include Peter Cook, John Bird, John Cleese, Stephen Fry, Griff Rhys Jones, David Frost...
...Its main enemy is the slug, eating it below soil level in the closed season and leaving the impression that frost has done it fatal damage....
...In February, the marines began advertising on MySpace with banner adverts, then in April they created a profile that features video film of drill sergeants and amphibious landings....
...Then we’re off into Sudan, into the province of Darfur, barrelling along at top speed, usually with our headlights off, through the desert of rocks, brambles, frost-hardened sand and dead trees that Otman...
...In 1993 Spink sold the ‘animal VC' of Simon, a cat who saw action in 1949 on HMS Amethyst while trapped and bombarded by Communist troops on the Yangtse river....
...Jon [Culshaw] does a good Paxman, but can anybody do Frost? You are limited by that. So Gareth might say at rehearsal, ‘OK, who does Frost?’ And one of them might say, ‘Me.’...
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