Hints and tips:
...They were said to be best in sphagnum moss, but that sort of moss is not found in my stony home, the Cotswolds....
...Yet there is a more down-to-earth and humorous side to the Chinese love of stones which is not reflected in the Rosenblum collection....
...Many St-Émilion enthusiasts would love this....
...On this stony earth, however, history, politics and power fix the facts on the ground....
...Is his love for Mollie anything but genuine? These become the key questions. Meanwhile De Niro lays on the unctuous charm as the silver-tongued Hale, gleefully playing puppet master....
...Our motley collection of guests walk over the stony delta of the Cunningham river to white tents on a bluff. “Welcome to the gravel pit,” says owner Josée Auclair....
...“We love the traditional olde-worlde feel of the town,” says the father of five....
...A heartfelt column from Miranda Green on how her efforts to schmooze fell on stony ground — and some tips on how to do it better....
...Were she a man, critics would be less absorbed by her love life. But only a woman could have chronicled such an ecstatic affair with a room of her own....
...On “Fallen” we are still in Arnold’s world, “drowning in a starry sea . . . how we stumble in the stony place.” Key to the album are the next two songs, “New Moon” and “Catherine Street”....
...Redding’s gorgeously rendered acoustic guitar songs are mundane and transcendent at once, showing how love can spring up from the stony ground of secrecy, turning the brick alley behind a chippy into paradise...
...“I love this desert,” De Foucauld wrote in a letter to his sister, in 1906. “It is so good and wholesome to be alone, face to face with eternal things.”...
...You can see it in the stony faces of bankers, pictured sitting around the table with Kwasi Kwarteng as he tries to convince them he has a workable plan....
...It is to give thanks to my parents for teaching me to work and giving me a tremendous amount of love. I hope it will make a space for love.”...
...He also loves talking about running himself....
...“Yeah, we love the Queen,” Rosie said. “I think Charles is quite good though, because he’s very into the environment. I feel like the Queen didn’t pursue that as much.”...
...The stony landscape of Wyoming “eroded by fantastic furniture, stale gnawed breadcrusts, tumbledbones, stacks of dirty folded blankets, bleached crab claws and dog teeth”....
...I was instantly in love with it, the smoothness of it, the history of it, what it’s been through, what it’s survived, that it’s outlived all of us and will outlive all of us....
...The three witches, or “Wyrd Sisters”, are cool-eyed, stony-faced women in dark suits who hover, waiting for the chance to restart the clock on the next cycle....
...“Objects are storytellers,” he emphasises to me, “and storytelling as it relates to this material that I love is what I need to do now.”...
...There was definitely something odd about Charles declaring to television cameras that yes, he was in love, “whatever in love means”....
...That’s why we love this.”...
...I suggest these young troopers are put on squirrel vigils, helping to lay down wire netting and keeping their namesakes off the flowers they love in spring....
...Even stony-hearted humans refer to themselves as animal lovers....
...“I’m someone who loves material,” he says. “Stones don’t edit anything out, geology will never hide trauma, it shows cataclysms when they occurred....
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