Dozens of farmers across Lancashire are starting to learn new skills thanks to a major investment in the very latest technology through a new collaboration between the county’s colleges and employers.
Dozens of farmers across Lancashire are starting to learn new skills thanks to a major investment in the very latest technology through a new collaboration between the county’s colleges and employers.
By: Crystal Wong 02 Jun, 2021 | Wed | 16:57
Entitled “Beauty and Beyond: Women in Chinese Art,” the 64-lot auction held by Bonhams last week was the first of its kind in Hong Kong, to shed light on the beauty of women across the traditional and modern art history of Chinese culture.
Each of the artworks encompassing different art forms pays tribute to the diversity and representation of femininity. Two of the star lots included a 16th/17 century Guanyin figure, as well as a stunning jade pavilion inspired by renowned Chinese play “Romance of the Western Chamber.”
Quite a number of the lots attracted fierce bidding among interested collectors, with a handful of hair accessories sold well above their presale estimates.
Plants are not just for the pandemic, the Chinese have admired them for millennia House plants have proven popular during the pandemic. Photo: Shutterstock
One of the consequences of social isolation over the past year, apart from corpulence and pallid complexions, has been the proliferation of house plants. With more time at home and the convenience of having seedlings, saplings and gardening kits delivered to their doors, a few enthusiasts I know seemed determined to turn their flats into luxuriant jungles or bountiful farms.
The ability to coax life out of plants, also known as having a green thumb, has always eluded me. I do enjoy them - I am curiously partial to chrysanthemums - but place a plant in my hands and its death inevitably follows. Not even the hardiest specimens are spared my unintentional planticide.