Sun-fed grass has beta carotene ... It has no borders, no agenda, no desires, no prejudices. It might caress your face or slap it, but there’s no tenderness nor malice there.

Keep your front yard tidy and welcoming with these low-maintenance, compact, deer-resistant landscaping plants.

Brook steps into the legside to mow four through midwicket and uses his feet to caress a single to mid-on ... a drive over mid-on that plus in the grass 3m in from the boundary then holes out ...

The band’s third record Caress of Steel, also released in 1975 ... the consumption of Marley grass, the suitably woozy intro riff leads to a chopsticks-style guitar lick that leaves the listener ...

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