milk and honey

• Days of Milk and Honey Are Over ; Letters to the Editor

I WISH to comment on Martin Tideswell's Personally Speaking column, headlined 'Other than inconveniencing us all, the big strike is pointless' (Sentinel, November 22). The planned strike by our civil servants on November 30 is another example of how deeply our society has become entrenched in a culture of expectations without responsibility. Decades back, people in public employment were paid well below the rates prevailing in the private sector. To compensate, special privileges were granted to them such as generous pensions, contract severance terms of the finest and loans on preferential interest rates, to name but three.

• Sentinel, The; Stoke-on-Trent (UK)
• November 25, 2011

• ; From a Land of Milk and Honey to Wastelands

A sEcond-rate tournament with prize money that would struggle to meet the wage demands of a half-decent player in the English Premier League. The Europa League is a competition for clubs either living off former glories or delighted to accept the scraps that have fallen from the Champions League table.

• Evening Times
• August 16, 2011

• After All the Milk and Honey, What Will We Get?

AND it came to pass that we were led from an accursed land, "to a good and spacious land, to a land flowing with milk and honey". Barely a month into the SNP administration, or government as we must learn to call it, and Scotland seems on the way to this biblical paradise: abolition of the Forth Road Bridge tolls; reversal of closures of hospital accident and emergency units; the scrapping of graduate endowment fees; the freezing of council tax; the abolition of prescription charges for the chronically ill, and now, as if to maintain the cracking pace of the march to milk and honey, an increase in funding for "free" personal care for the elderly. And there will be more, much more, we are told. It remains the government's intention to scrap council tax, boost infrastructure spending, lif...

• The Scotsman
• June 15, 2007

• Transforming a Lost World Into a Land of Milk and Honey ; Our Food in the Landscape Series Normally Features People Who Are in Full Production - but This Week Martin Hesp Visits Someone Whose Project and Dream Is Just Beginning

THERE is something magical and alluring about a forgotten garden - it is the excitement of discovery, the sense of history, and the promise of future restored glory all wrapped up in one. Old potting sheds, dark dank mushroom houses, south-facing walls that once sheltered peach trees, magnificent hot-houses now turned to jungle. All lurk amid the undergrowth like old forgotten jewels that could so easily shine again with a bit of a polish.

• Western Morning News, The
• September 23, 2009

• Treatment of the Week ; Milk and Honey Pedicure [Eire Region]

I DON'T know anyone who doesn't like getting a pedicure -- getting your feet scrubbed, moisturised and your toes painted really makes you feel like you are looking after yourself. Mink in Ballsbridge does the perfect pedicure, and its standard of customer service is high. So high, in fact, that most of its customers become regulars.

• Daily Mail
• January 04, 2012

• Spending Brings Milk and Honey

A six-figure investment in a dairy building and new milking and feeding equipment is already reaping increased yields for producer Michael Wilson. Michael, who milks 270 pedigree Holsteins in partnership with his parents Robin and Jean, wanted to make investments at Woodside Farm, Wreay, near Carlisle, to update the bulk tank and milking parlour which had come to the end of its useful life after almost 30 years.

• The Journal
• June 17, 2006

• Time for a Realistic Take On the 'Land of Milk and Honey'

IT'S not often that I am lost for words, but it happened yesterday. It was a simple question, the best questions always are: "Are there any publicly-funded services which people south of the Border receive that we in Scotland do not? The audience for Radio Five Live probably thought that they were listening to a politician. The reply, I admit, was pathetic. First a pause, then the "that's a very good question" stalling response, and then, well - waffle.

• The Scotsman
• October 30, 2007

• Run for the Hills! ; Dazed by the Economic Meltdown? Monty Halls Picks Five Top Wilderness Areas Guaranteed to Restore Your Sanity(and You Don't Need to Go Very Far) [Scot Region]

THERE are a number of things everybody - or just about everybody - has in common nowadays. The first is an urge to escape. We're hardly enjoying days of milk and honey right now, what with double-dip recessions thundering towards us, unemployment climbing like a deranged gibbon and riots and calamity on the streets. It's unequivocally time to head for the hills. The second recurring factor in our lives is that we're all skint, or at least if we're not now, we probably will be shortly. And the third is that we all want to do the right thing for our poor beleaguered planet - not being green is up there now with stamping on kittens or thinking Michael Palin is annoying. It's just not done.

• Mail on Sunday
• November 20, 2011

• A Taste of Milk and Honey ; Divine Wines, Roman Ruins, and Sumptous Souks --Lebanon Is Cultivating Its Ancient Roots [Scot Region]

THINK of the Lebanon and you might imagine being chained to a radiator in a Beirut cellar with Terry Waite. Unfair, but understandable. However, instead of bombs and bullets, think food and drink. Wine and gastronomy is at the heart of modern Lebanon.

• Daily Mail
• October 14, 2010

• 'I've Played in a Lot of Big Games but Nothing Where the Stakes Have Been As High As This' ; Interview Barry Ferguson Is Feeling the Pressure but Embracing the Occasion, Writes Darrell King

THREE finals will be played out over the ultimate super-Saturday today. In Glasgow, the bragging rights of Edinburgh will be determined; in Munich, the kings of Europe will be crowned; and in London, one club will walk away with a pound(s)90m prize and a return to the land of milk and honey. The tens of thousands of supporters who will converge on Hampden, the Allianz Arena and Wembley will all lay claim to their game being the most important but, in terms of what is on the line, there isn't really a contest. It may be disputed by some that Blackpool v West Ham United somehow overshadows the end of the European season showpiece that is the Champions League final but, given that the Barclays Premier League play-off is now labelled the richest game of football on earth, it's easy to justi...

• The Herald
• May 19, 2012