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The Age
03-05-2025
- Lifestyle
- The Age
Spoil mum with gifts she really wants this Mother's Day
Forget about toast and tea… show Mum the love with an irresistible breakfast in bed. The Correspondent (Michael Joseph) by Virginia Evans, $35. Barbour '09' glasses, from $299 for two pairs, from Specsavers. Leif 'Buddha Wood' scented candle, $79. Tissot 'Desir' watch, $650. Country Road silk eye mask, $50. I Love Linen 'Ruby' French flax linen shirt, $129 Mulberry 'Small Darley' bag, $1395. Merit 'Signature Lip' lipstick in '1990″, $42. Puebco brass serving tray, $185. 'Tillandsia' living air plant, $10. Coucou Suzette 'Tortorsell Cat' and 'Yorkshire' hair clips, $12 each. Bonnie and Neil 'Watercolour' coupe, $99 (set of two). Temple of the Sun 'Pompeii' necklace, $349. Marimekko 'Oiva / Piirto Unikko' plate, $34. Bethany Linz semi-precious stone ring, $119, and enamel bangle, $45. Hay 'MVS' cutlery, $109 (set of four). Instax Mini 'LiPlay' hybrid instant camera, $249, from Harvey Norman. Marc Jacobs 'Daisy Wild Eau So Intense' EDP 50ml, $160. Kip & Co 'Supper Club' embroidered napkin, $85 (set of four). Venchi 'Baroque' assorted chocolates, $90 (giftbox 360g). Maison Balzac 'The Good Egg' incense holder, $69. Le Labo 'Hinoki' hand pomade, $68.
Sydney Morning Herald
03-05-2025
- Lifestyle
- Sydney Morning Herald
Spoil mum with gifts she really wants this Mother's Day
Forget about toast and tea… show Mum the love with an irresistible breakfast in bed. The Correspondent (Michael Joseph) by Virginia Evans, $35. Barbour '09' glasses, from $299 for two pairs, from Specsavers. Leif 'Buddha Wood' scented candle, $79. Tissot 'Desir' watch, $650. Country Road silk eye mask, $50. I Love Linen 'Ruby' French flax linen shirt, $129 Mulberry 'Small Darley' bag, $1395. Merit 'Signature Lip' lipstick in '1990″, $42. Puebco brass serving tray, $185. 'Tillandsia' living air plant, $10. Coucou Suzette 'Tortorsell Cat' and 'Yorkshire' hair clips, $12 each. Bonnie and Neil 'Watercolour' coupe, $99 (set of two). Temple of the Sun 'Pompeii' necklace, $349. Marimekko 'Oiva / Piirto Unikko' plate, $34. Bethany Linz semi-precious stone ring, $119, and enamel bangle, $45. Hay 'MVS' cutlery, $109 (set of four). Instax Mini 'LiPlay' hybrid instant camera, $249, from Harvey Norman. Marc Jacobs 'Daisy Wild Eau So Intense' EDP 50ml, $160. Kip & Co 'Supper Club' embroidered napkin, $85 (set of four). Venchi 'Baroque' assorted chocolates, $90 (giftbox 360g). Maison Balzac 'The Good Egg' incense holder, $69. Le Labo 'Hinoki' hand pomade, $68.
BBC News
13-02-2025
- General
- BBC News
Billericay boy's robin Christmas card wins him RSPCA award
A primary school pupil who raised hundreds of pounds for charity by designing a card inspired by his late father has received a special recognition Emanuel-Francis, nine, from Billericay, Essex, created and sold more than 120 Christmas cards with all profits going to the local Francis died in August 2023 - and Leif said his robin design was inspired by his dad's love of was presented with an award from the RSPCA in front of hundreds of pupils at Buttsbury Primary School as a mark of gratitude for his fundraising efforts. "Unfortunately, my dad passed away in the summer," Leif said."He really liked birds and I like animals, so I decided to draw a robin."He said the resign was "quite important to me" and added: "It's nice to have something to remember him by."Leif's mother Sam Emanuel said it was a "nice for Leif to use it as an opportunity to honour him [Daren] - as well as raising money for animals which they both loved." Derrick Yapp, income generation manager for RSPCA Essex Mid and North, invited Leif and Ms Emanuel to the charity's veterinary practice in Great Baddow near Chelmsford to learn more about its also presented Leif with his certificate during the school assembly."Any money we get is going to be spent on local animals at our vet clinics in Chelmsford and Colchester so bringing in £302 was phenomenal," he head teacher, Ann Robinson, said he was an "inspiration" to his fellow pupils."I know that everyone was proud of him today and it was lovely to see," she added. Follow Essex news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
Boston Globe
29-01-2025
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
Ali Smith's ‘Gliff' provides a terrifying glimpse into our possible future
Related : Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Enter Email Sign Up Both timelines contain aspects of our world, though your perception of today — your political views, your version of facts (an utterly demoralizing phrase to type) — will determine how exaggerated you think the novel's characterization is, how far off you think its future lies. Those in power have begun seizing both property, by surrounding it with a line of red paint, and people, by identifying them as 'unverifiables.' Speaking out at a protest, posting something inappropriate online, loving the wrong person, having the wrong skin color — any of these can get someone tagged as UV and sent to a 'Retraining Center.' Both the kids' mother, who takes over her ailing sister's service industry job at the start of the novel, and Leif, the mother's latest boyfriend, disappear off the page after presumably being caught up in this system. Advertisement Before Leif vanishes, both the family's home and camper van are encircled with red paint, so he sets the kids up with two weeks of canned food in an abandoned railworkers cottage. Rose finds a field of horses behind their squat and befriends — and soon adopts — a gray gelding that she names Gliff. It's a seemingly nonsense word, but Briar later learns that it has a slew of portentous meanings, including 'a short moment' and 'a sudden passing sensation either of pain or of pleasure.' Smith's writing always features an almost palpable love of language, which takes a variety of guises here, including other discussions about the multiple meanings of apposite words like trust, rendering, and sublime, as well as whimsical wordplay throughout the text, like the mother's oft-quoted aphorism that a problem that can't be solved must be 'salved.' Advertisement Toward the end of the earlier narrative, the siblings — and their horse — resettle in an abandoned school that shelters other displaced children and adults, including a former librarian and a renowned philosopher who had 'been made stateless.' Colon, whose father owns the horses, initially tries to gather data on the siblings using the 'educator' that he, like most licit citizens, wears on his wrist. Rose and Briar have no devices and were raised to be skeptical of technology in general, especially the ways it has further fractured society. When Colon asks the siblings how they learn, Briar says, 'We choose to be educated by things bigger than something so small it can be worn on a human wrist.' In the later timeline, technology plays an even more prominent and destabilizing role, with an individual's entire existence dictated by their digital footprint and many children bearing chemical burns caused by their work removing batteries from discarded electronics. Related : Advertisement Like all of Smith's recent novels, though to a lesser degree than in the Seasonal Quartet, 'Gliff' is enriched by references to literature, art, and history, including Edgar Allan Poe, British painter George Stubbs, and the caves at Creswell Crags, which were first occupied by humans tens of thousands of years ago. These older, scholastic touchstones are outweighed by the novel's endless nods to more recent events. Some are specific, including allusions to Israel's demolition of Gaza and Vladimir Putin's presumed role in the death of Alexei Navalny; others are more general, such as deteriorating societal norms, extreme weather events, unaccountable business behemoths, rampant electronic surveillance, deadly painkiller addictions, and the ability of money to buy permission and bypass regulation. Tying together and, to a large degree, enabling these ills are the increasingly powerful people who are threatened by the mere existence of those who are different, those 'they think aren't anything like them.' The novel was initially published in the UK in October 2024, and while its vision of the future looks even more prescient today, particularly in the United States, hopefully 'Gliff' will remain a cautionary tale and not be revealed as a glimpse into a crystal ball. GLIFF By Ali Smith Pantheon, 288 pages, $28 Cory Oldweiler is a freelance writer. Advertisement
