The bricks were made into a ‘Kang’, a wood fired stove that has an extended horizontal flue area that doubles as a warmed bed base at night after dinner. After several years, the ‘Kang’ is demolished and recycled. The mud bricks, wood ash and whatever other minerals have been absorbe...
I slid under cool sheets and toasted the new season ofBridgerton. I popped another chocolate truffle into my mouth.Who did I think I was, Queen Charlotte, the Queen of England, lounging about eating bon bons?I remembered the phraseDolce far Nientethat Italians taught me twenty years ago. Ah...
All of a sudden, I slipped into the river. 突然,我滑进了河里。 3. 10kb I slipped a note under Louise's door. 我悄悄地把一张字条塞到了路易丝的门下。 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》 4. 12kb I slipped between the crisp clean sheets. 我钻进了干净平整的被单中。 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典...
made for burn victims. Days back, I’d mistakenly used some of the cream – or my other standby, castor oil – with a lovely black satin nightgown and it had loosened the dye from the cloth so I woke to black smudges all over my sheets. As if I’d cleaned a chimney before bed....
I would love to call this one “make yourself breakfastin bed,” but let’s be honest, some of us are strict about eating anything in bed—getting any type of crumbs on my sheets is actually my worst nightmare. What really matters is starting your day by making the ultimate breakfast sp...
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Last night, a violent late-summer storm pelted the house with sheets of rain and gusts of wind that knocked out power and toppled trees. I stood in the screen porch, feeling fully the might of the wind and water, and I asked the force to please wash me free of the past; wash me ...
Binotto wasn’t the only one to think it and know it. Among those who agreed was Vettel, who had seen the telemetry sheets from Leclerc’s early test outings in the Ferrari. When someone asked what he thought about him during a press conference at Hockenh...
There are things with fixed costs that you have no control over, and balancing budgets and budget sheets and making payroll. Do you own your business? Do you own your equipment? Do you lease your equipment? So these are things that have to take up an enormous part of your day that ...