Hints and tips:
...Michael Strain rightly calls out Donald Trump and Joe Biden for abandoning proven policies supportive of business dating back to the Bretton Woods era, but he is wrong about the steps they should take...
...Cosy yet cool, with wood panelling and mirrors, it has a strong 1960-70s feel. We were invited to venture behind the bar-top — this was the moment when the family was to be let loose....
...But modernity impinges: the wood fire has been substituted for a TV screen with flames in order to protect the culinary aromas....
...Unusually wide, wax-oiled timber boards adorn the floors and the walls are painted in hues of buttermilk and sage....
...The first, What an Owl Knows by Jennifer Ackerman, the American nature writer and author of the bestselling The Genius of Birds, is a gripping history of these creatures, “revered and reviled, deemed sage...
...Isla, Sage and Rocco are an easy train ride from London (to Sudbury, from which it’s a 20-minute cab to the location)....
...The walls are now painted in apricots, sage greens and indigo blues....
...When the olive wood outer door is shut you feel like a hobbit, enfolded in the womb of the hill....
...Herbs to improve memory and mood, such as sage and peppermint, grow as part of the installation, with recipes for tinctures....
...Meanwhile, Initio Parfums Privés’s Paragon parfum (£240), combines a palo santo accord with notes of sage, lavender and black pepper to create a woody, spicy aroma....
...In the gym, the floors are wood-sprung, the weights and rowing machine have wood cladding, and the stunning 18m pool – or as they call it, “the waters” – is lined with some 30,000 handmade ceramic tiles....
...We booked a restaurant-with-rooms, The White Lion Inn at Cray — a former drovers’ inn that dates back to the 14th century and was recently renovated in tweeds and sages....
...Window boxes will probably be made of wood, which is a good option for winter as it absorbs excess water and reduces the damage frost will do to roots inside it....
...The wood it uses comes certified by the FSC, its felt is cruelty-free, and its cork harvested responsibly in Portugal....
...Its stealth-wealth rustic chic is a mix of Moroccan plaster, granite, marble and wood, with natural accents such as a table made from weathered elm and lights strung from a silver birch branch....
...Sage Tea MakerSamuel Clark, Moro restaurant co-founder“This brews your tea for just the right amount of time....
...The edges of the cake’s buttercream are finished in swirls of pink and sage green. Artful piping frills its sides, broken up by tiny edible pearls....
...The set-up is simple: it’s the end of summer camp and your group of teenage counsellors are planning to stay one last night to have a party in the woods....
...When I arrived, there were delicate yellow bird’s foot trefoil, purple meadow sage, the fluffy pincushions of pale lilac field scabious, oxeye daisies, true lovers knot, tiny white wood anemone and wood...
...Each scent is centred around two olfactory ideas, and the bottles reflect that contrast: Cannabis Patchouli is crafted half from bio-sourced wood and half from forest green glass....
...Look no further than the Sage of Omaha and the “Queen of the bull market”....
...From £110 The last item of clothing I added to my wardrobe was a Prada puffer, from the last collection, which is sage green with beading all over it....
...Nemi strawberries, which grow in the woods around the town but are also farmed, are among the finest, with a fuller, richer taste from the volcanic soil....
...(For those with gas barbecues, wood chips in a smoker box will generate a similar smoky flavour.)...
...I asked how instrumental Sage and his team had been with the choice of decor....
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