Hints and tips:
...I mean, it’s easy to say often, but that’s hard to do, Pamela, isn’t it, when we need to have the courage to grasp the nettle of our finances? Pamela Roberts Yeah....
...Whatever his sniffy opinion, we will continue our dig for victory against docks, nettles, brambles, ground elder and ivy, won’t we?...
...Of course, there are privacy risks to consider but we have to grasp this nettle — with the right safeguards....
...“English Food: A People’s History” (William Collins) is out now Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first...
...There is snail-racing, river football, stone-skimming, nettle-eating and gurning. Conker-smashing, clog-cobbling, shin-kicking, egg-throwing, pea-shooting and worm-charming....
...As the American writer and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson put it, “Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend, than his echo.”...
...The ultra-relaxed vibe is meant to be “like stepping into a warm bath”, says Charlie Tayler, Aulis’s head chef, who previously worked at The Ledbury and was mentored by Alyn Williams at The Westbury....
...At Fort William we changed on to the little branch line to Mallaig (a route also used by the Jacobite steam train, popular with Harry Potter fans thanks to its appearance as the Hogwarts Express)....
...I keep some discreet ivy and a few nettles by the rubbish heap in order to encourage native British butterflies to breed....
...All I got was nettles and brambles.” She portrays the aristocracy as “custodians” of Britain’s great estates, burdened by worry for them. Her youth at Holkham was not that jolly....
...Trevor Williams: No — it may have gone too far in raising taxes....
...Between the animal pests (including steroid-enhanced orange slugs who ate four salad sowings) and the bindweed, ground elder, ivy and nettles, I have not had time for a lot of planting....
...My style icon is my late uncle, Sir William Aykroyd, who ran Hardy Amies for a time and had an immaculate dress sense....
...The eco-themers on Main Avenue would have set her among nothing but donkey-compatible nettles....
...Andrew Hagger, personal finance expert at MoneyComms, said that while it was good to see Skipton had “grasped the nettle”, the interest offered on the cash Isa was “extremely disappointing”....
...Will the current eurozone cyclical economic upswing provide a nice tailwind or a complacent headwind to finally grasping that nettle?”...
...I have a discipline — I like to grasp the nettle and get it done.”...
...What nettles me nowadays is how the gargantuan world of video games has plagiarised the classical legends, yet those tens of millions of youngsters spending their lives moving their frantic fingers across...
...As oil prices slide, governments are finding it tough to grasp the nettle of reform as the Gulf states’ record surpluses mutate into record shortfalls....
...The Hinds Head, High Street, Bray, Berkshire SL6 2AB; 01628 626151; hindsheadbray.com Illustrations by William Grill...
...Swift’s stories often turn on a key moment: words left unsaid, life’s nettles left ungrasped....
...They — and UK society — have not yet grasped the nettle, and house prices will continue to rise albeit more slowly....
...And, as Clarke says in an essay on aligning demand for public services with tightening budgetary constraints, politicians mostly refuse to grasp the nettle of user charges....
...Chef Jack Williams focuses on local produce, as well as foraging wild garlic and St George’s mushrooms....
...And there’s another Shakespearean significance: Lear in his madness is crowned with burdock, nettles and other weeds....
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