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After four long years, we finally have a new president and, more importantly, new presidential pets. Usually the thrill of pets arriving at the White House is tempered by the sting of old presidential pets leaving the White House, but this year is different: Donald Trump is the first president in more than 100 years not to have a pet of any kind, so we can say goodbye to his rotten administration without stray sympathy for any blameless dogs, cats, or possums getting evicted alongside their cap...

Country Life Trending: Drummond Castle Gardens, Scotland. Picture by Clive Nichols Garden Pictures Credit: Clive Nichols Garden Pictures In the depths of winter at Drummond Castle, near Crieff, Perthshire, the crisp outlines of the 11 miles of box hedging and the perfect trim on the countless topiaried yews still take the breath away in a garden made famous by the Outlander TV series. Caroline Donald tells its story, with photographs by Clive Nichols. For generations, uninitiated v...

Here’s a Juxtaposition of two cartoonists whose work I greatly admire, but I’m giving Telnaes the advantage this time around because, while I like and agree with both cartoons, there are times when understated banality is more powerful than comic exaggeration. Besides, wit all doo respeck to Ohman, I’m as sick of that phony shaman as I am of Bernie memes, but with this difference: While Bernie memes were funny for about 48 hours and then became tiresome, focusing on the shaman is part of ...

How to host a lockdown Burns Supper, from haggis to whisky Bruichladdich x FarmisonFarmison & Co Burns Night Celebration Box Monday marks what may be the most pared back Burns Night in living memory. While on a normal year swathes of the country head to special dinners to celebrate the life of the Scottish bard, this year we’ll all be stuck in the house watching reruns of Jools Holland.  Still, there are a few ways you can mark the occasion and remain Covid-safe: here are a ...

Updated: January 26, 2021, 9:21 am © Shutterstock / Brent Hofacker For brilliant recipes, the best of local produce, fresh ideas and insight, subscribe to our weekly Food and Drink Newsletter. Thank you for signing up to our Food and Drink Newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up It wouldn’t be Burns Night without toasting The Bard with a wee whisky tipple. Ah Burns Night. And fit a nicht it is, although it is most certainly not what we are used to, what with...

Liam Neeson could turn to different kind of gun January 22, 2021 at 8:40 AM EST - Updated January 22 at 8:40 AM Liam Neeson could be trading in his tough-guy persona for another kind of character -- a naked one. The 68-year-old Irish actor told People that hes been approached to take over the role of Lt. Frank Drebin, made famous by the late Leslie Nielsen, in a remake of "The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!" "Ive been approached by Seth McFarlane and Paramount Studios to maybe ...

vinum absinthiatum, the precursor to vermouth, as noted in first century AD recipe book De re coquinaria, attributed to Apicius. Much later, in 1570, Giovan Vettorio Soderini, a Florentine agronomist, wrote that “wine of wormwood, rosemary and sage is still made in Hungary and is drank in Germany” ( Trattato della coltivazione delle viti, e del frutto che se ne puô cavare), while in 1773, Volterra-born Giovanni Cosimo Villifranchi stated in his Enologia toscana that “nowadays, a medici...

Book World: Robert Louis Stevensons adventure tale is a timely novel about politics and dissent Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Jan. 20, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail - - - Robert Louis Stevensons "Kidnapped" appeared in 1886, the same year as "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and just three years after "Treasure Island." According to "The Oxford Companion to Childrens Literature," it is "one of the most brilliant adventure stories of all times"- and thats no exaggeration. Yet "Kidn...

Yet Ewan McGregor almost failed to make the cut in Shallow Grave and Trainspotting, it has emerged. Andrew Macdonald, who produced both movies, tells tonight’s The Years That Changed Modern Scotland that casting the actor for Trainspotting had been “very controversial” at the time. “Lots of people thought Trainspotting had to be really grungy and they thought Ewan was too handsome, too attractive, too pretty,” says Macdonald. He had previously encountered friction over McGrego...

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