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  • The latest pot-pourri by the cricket‑loving jester/thesp Michael Simkins The Last Flannelled Fool, Ebury £11.99 will also cheer your winter.

    William Hill must be brought to book for sport prize's lack of joy | Frank Keating 2011

  • What was once a small Indian village is presented as a pot-pourri of contrasting sights and sounds.

    Montreal by Night The Nag 2009

  • With the aid of dealers, auctioneers, and other slightly dubious middle-men, the Prince Regent spent a lifetime picking off these limping antelopes at the edge of the luxury herd: exceedingly rare Sèvres models with royal (usually French) provenance; dessert services, loopy garnitures, wacky covered vases, and intricately perforated jars for pot-pourri, and thousands of other vessels that were disbursed as a direct result of the French Revolution.

    Sèvres 2009

  • Such a perfect pot-pourri of political illiteracy and unrepentant misogyny would be difficult to invent.

    Archive 2009-12-01 2009

  • The obvious example is the use by Accelerated Learning enthusiasts of stress balls, pot-pourri, Mozart and the like.

    Brain rules – where does that leave us? Clive Shepherd 2009

  • One of the major recommendations of accelerated learning is that teachers create a multi-sensory environment for learning - that's why you'll increasingly see stress balls, posters, pot-pourri and Mozart in the classroom.

    Brain rule #9 Clive Shepherd 2009

  • The obvious example is the use by Accelerated Learning enthusiasts of stress balls, pot-pourri, Mozart and the like.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Clive Shepherd 2009

  • Where I am not convinced is that it pays to stimulate as many of the senses as possible, even when those senses are not relevant to the context in which the skill will be applied, e.g. with the aid of stress balls, pot-pourri and Mozart.

    Brain rule #9 Clive Shepherd 2009

  • Where I am not convinced is that it pays to stimulate as many of the senses as possible, even when those senses are not relevant to the context in which the skill will be applied, e.g. with the aid of stress balls, pot-pourri and Mozart.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Clive Shepherd 2009

  • One of the major recommendations of accelerated learning is that teachers create a multi-sensory environment for learning - that's why you'll increasingly see stress balls, posters, pot-pourri and Mozart in the classroom.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Clive Shepherd 2009

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