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...Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent for Christians around the world. Economic indicators: India releases its wholesale price index inflation data for January....
...And Williams’ evocation of the English countryside, as a trained biologist, is lovely. “Come. Let’s race across the moor and clamber over felled ash, brittle and grey with dieback....
...My mother would insist on pre-flight prayers, dotting vibhuti ash on my forehead as a talisman....
...As early as 40BC in his Bucolics, Virgil called it as beautiful and appropriate in a garden as ash trees are in forests: Fraxinus in silvis, pulcherrima pinus in hortis....
...From Dixon’s steel rods to the hand-turned ash and fruitwood of the baroque design, the exhibition presents three visions of a symbol of dynastic authority and explores the material and cultural advances...
...One thing that was custom-made new is “Simon’s Bed”, created by the studio JamesPlumb in 2019 out of steel, ash, rope and sailcloth....
...Eden candle by Eym x Lucy Williams, £150 Produced by Laguna B and set inside a refillable Murano glass design. eymnaturals.com Gold pyramid candle holder by Casarialto for Diptyque, £235 Candlelight filters...
...Robbie Williams is on the radio, and you and Janet hum along. You expect to see Jim waiting for you in the lounge when you get back. Inside, you sit with Stephen....
...leadership election (do read William Wallis’s scene-setter if you haven’t already)....
...This year there was a specially commissioned piece by John Williams, composer of film soundtracks from Harry Potter to Indiana Jones. Halwax is thrilled – “It’s John Williams!”...
...Party members had to nominate leadership candidates to get them on the ballot: we know that Humza Yousaf, Kate Forbes and Ash Regan all cleared that threshold....
...That said, the real star of the Dandenong Ranges is the William Ricketts Sanctuary....
...Ash Barty, the 25-year-old reigning women’s champion, is not taking part after her shock retirement this year, saying she was “spent” and citing the emotional pressures of being on tour....
...The Pasupatas were wandering Brahmins — or priests — who smeared their bodies with ash from cremation grounds and slept on a bed of ashes....
...out of ourselves and transcend the day-to-day human experience,” says Amy Donovan, a geographer and volcanologist at Cambridge university who has watched demand grow ever higher for proximity to spewing ash...
...ViennaWill Cooper, co-founder of design firm Ash“Vienna, which I’d never been to and which, oh my God, I loved....
...While Federer, Murray and Serena Williams may want to play for as long as possible, some women are unconvinced by the trade-offs involved....
...Golden spade by Niwaki, £34 This lightweight spade is perfect for digging soil, planting trees or exuding bling. conranshop.co.uk Bees secateurs set by Sophie Allport, £25 Features an ash handle and a...
...“A large bespectacled lady, usually with cigarette ash on her ample bosom,” Williams says her “frumpy” appearance hid a malicious force....
...Before joining the company he spent a year scouring the world for distressed mining assets with Sam Ash, who had worked for Williams on several projects at Barrick, including the Lumwana copper mine in Zambia...
...In an exposed trench wall was a narrow line of black ash. The Mongols, he said, 1241. We ran our hands over the burnt layer....
...A charred Bible and children’s shoes filled with ash hint at this tragedy. Despite hardships, however, London endured and theatres, including those performing Shakespeare plays, flourished....
...At William Lane, a selling point to customers is rapid lead times....
...that great quality of going into a bar, or even sitting on the kerb of a street, and talking to absolutely anybody as if he was his brother,” says Katarzyna Mroczkowska-Brand, who, with her then husband William...
...He took deep drags on his cigarette, waiting until the very last moment before tapping his ash into an ashtray....
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