Craft

RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: D-Day is cancelled… everybody back on the landing craft! 

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They won’t be fighting them on the beaches next month to mark the anniversary of D-Day. A planned re-enactment in Devon has been cancelled — on the orders of elf’n’safety. It was scheduled to take place on Saunton Sands and the dunes at Braunton Burrows, where 10,000 troops trained for Operation Overlord in 1944. But … Read more

RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: D-Day is cancelled… everybody back on the landing craft! 

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They won’t be fighting them on the beaches next month to mark the anniversary of D-Day. A planned re-enactment in Devon has been cancelled — on the orders of elf’n’safety. It was scheduled to take place on Saunton Sands and the dunes at Braunton Burrows, where 10,000 troops trained for Operation Overlord in 1944. But … Read more

Shandy gets a hipster makeover: Craft brewers start making traditional drink

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Craft brewers are set to bring back 1970s favourite shandy post-pandemic to fuel the thirst for no or low alcohol beer as growing numbers of young people go teetotal.  Beer start-ups who are turning their hand to making so-called ‘nolo’ beverages are now giving shandy a fresh spin as demand for craft versions of the drink … Read more

Yoga studio, tiki bar and craft den are among 2021 Shed of the Year lockdown entries

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Britain’s lockdown lockups! Yoga studio, tiki bar and nurse’s craft den are among 2021 Shed of the Year entries after serving as ideal sanctuaries to sit out the pandemic The 2021 Cuprinol Shed of the Year is celebrating the unusual garden creations made during lockdown Among the entries are a garden yoga studio, a bar, … Read more

Interstellar visitor Oumuamua is NOT an alien craft but a chunk from a Pluto-like exoplanet

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Earth’s first interstellar visitor is neither an alien aircraft nor a comet, as some scientists previously speculated when whizzed through our Solar System in 2017. A new study from Arizona State University suggests Oumuamua is nothing more than a chunk from a Pluto-like planet that was blasted off from its home some 400 million years … Read more

Interstellar visitor Oumuamua is NOT an alien craft but a chunk from a Pluto-like exoplanet

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Earth’s first interstellar visitor is neither an alien aircraft nor a comet, as some scientists previously speculated when whizzed through our Solar System in 2017. A new study from Arizona State University suggests Oumuamua is nothing more than a chunk from a Pluto-like planet that was blasted off from its home some 400 million years … Read more

Shelley Craft wears a corset while Scott Cam rides a white horse as they The Block promo

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The Block is shaping up to be a very colourful season this year.  On Sunday, longtime hosts Scott Cam, 58, and Shelley Craft, 44, were spotted filming a flamboyant, cowboy-themed promo video as production kicked off in Melbourne’s south-east. Joined by this season’s contestants, the presenters were spotted wearing full 18th century costume as they … Read more

NASA’s Perseverance rover captures first look of a craft landing on Mars from the moment

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The world received the first up-close look of a spacecraft landing on Mars in a video beamed back to NASA by its ‘most sophisticated’ rover, Perseverance, which touched down Thursday.  The video begins with the violent release of the sonic parachute from the rover, along with ejection of the heat shield and shows the moment the … Read more