Things that are charming

An underrated virtue, charm, and rather attractive too.

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• Table lamps

• Richard Ayoade

• Giving flowers

• Arthur Miller’s letter to Marilyn Monroe on the subject of kissing her in the kitchen

• Norah Jones

• Tennis – especially mixed doubles

• Ticking

• Diana Vreeland’s “Why Don’t You?” columns for Harper’s Bazaar

• Clips of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers dancing together

• Nicky Haslam’s “drying up cloths” featuring his lists of things that are common

• Bjork in the video for “It’s Oh So Quiet”

• Judiciously paid compliments

• The Great British Bake Off

• Jonathan Anderson, in every single one of his roles as a designer

• Stephen Mangan

• Pearl rings

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