We cook corn in the same giant white enamel pot, now slightly chipped.

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Add the remaining spring of thyme, bay leaf, and white wine to the pot and bring to the boil.

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Sudhir Trehan, who runs Crompton Greaves, Avantha's electrical equipment-maker, jokes that when he joined as a trainee in 1972, the management would not drink tea unless it were served with white gloves from a silver pot.

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Today she owns roughly half a dozen pieces of his work, including hyacinths spilling out of an 18th-century basket, a white rose plant in a clay pot, and a bouquet of clematis.

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That explains the significance of the red ball: it makes the odds of winning the pot less likely since you have to match all of the white balls (generally from 1 to 50) plus choose the correct red ball (out of a different set of balls, generally 1 to 35).

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It was always the same: a great wedge of papaya with limes, a crisp thin omelette with green chilis mixed in, two slices of inch-thick white-bread toast, a dollop of red jelly and of margarine, and a pot of coffee with milk.

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