Meghan Markle has launched her new lifestyle blog, American Riviera Orchard.
The brand, is believed to be selling cutlery – knives forks spoons – cookbooks and electronic cookbooks, coffee, jams jellies and butters.
It also extends to a physical shop from which tableware, mugs, jams, tablecloths and recipe books could be sold.
Before her life in the royal family, Meghan ran a lifestyle blog called ‘The Tig’.
The passion project’ back in 2014, naming it after her favourite Tignanello red
Ukraine will soon mark the passing of 18 months since Russian forces launched their invasion in February of 2022. In recent weeks, the frontline battlefields in eastern and southern Ukraine remain punishing arenas of trench warfare, drone attacks, and artillery battles. Heavily mined and fortified Russian positions are slowing Ukraine’s long-anticipated counteroffensive. Russia’s military continues to launch missiles into all parts of Ukraine, attacking infrastructure and other targets, while Western countries continue to supply Ukraine with ammunition, equipment, and training.
Widespread flooding in China, a horse cart race in India, drone training in Ukraine, a wildfire in the Mojave National Preserve, a water polo match in Japan, a trampoline championship in England, a flooded St Mark’s Square in Venice, an air show in Ireland, and much more
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Last night, sky watchers around the world were treated to views of the so-called sturgeon supermoon. According to NASA, via the Maine Farmers’ Almanac, August’s full moon is called the sturgeon moon because Algonquin tribes knew that large fish were more easily caught at this time of year. It is also one of the largest full moons of 2023, when the moon appears about 10 percent larger than average as it approaches its closest point in orbit—the next supermoon of
London’s urban fox population has been growing and becoming more visible since the early 20th century. Foxes are well adapted to city and suburban life, and their numbers appear to have stabilized at about 10,000 foxes living in the gardens, parks, and alleyways of London alone. Collected below are recent images of some of these foxes playing, scavenging, sleeping, and scampering around London.
The Fencing World Championships in Italy, a rain delay at Boston’s Fenway Park, a bomb-damaged cathedral in Ukraine, wildfires burning across Greece, a performance at the Lollapalooza Paris Festival, the Women’s World Cup in Australia, preparations for a typhoon in China, and much more
The football world has been saddened by the death of legendary BBC commentator John Motson at the age of 77.
Motson covered 10 World Cups, 10 European Championships and 29 FA Cup finals in a 50-year career for the BBC, providing the soundtrack to some of football’s most iconic moments.
The great challenge for any commentator is to find the perfect words to describe extraordinary events on the pitch and frame them in the right context – and ‘Motty’ was
This note is to kick off a resumed set of chronicles in the “Our Towns” series, after time away for a long Atlantic project on the origins of this era’s public-health and economic disaster.
The results of that project are here: “Three Weeks That Changed Everything.” If you’re wondering, the three weeks I have in mind are: January 1, 2020—when first mentions of an outbreak of a new “pneumonia type disease” in central China would have appeared in the CIA-produced
