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On the morning the Mountain fire erupted, wind gusts were so strong in Somis that several of the sturdy wooden boxes that housed Eduardo Flores’s bee colonies had already blown over.

“It’s a beautiful plant,” he says, “sturdy and hard to kill.”

I’ve enjoyed stripping the songs back down to the bare bones and enjoyed that they’re still sturdy enough to withstand that kind of stripping away.

Missed tackles around the fringes – where a defence should be most sturdy – cost them for tries by Harry Wilson and Jeremy Williams.

“It's ridiculous. I mean, our democracy is pretty sturdy. Our checks and balances worked. The thing was over in a matter of hours. And yet, here we are, it's still a factor.”