Pleasingly

Pleasingly, the new year has started well, with the portfolio up +11% through to the 27 of January.

The whole thing is done with zest, wit, and a pleasingly reductionist approach to the Edsperanto jargon with which colleges obfuscate their aims and methods.

This budget-oriented model might not seem like an obvious place to start, but Edmunds has found it to be pleasingly comfortable and well equipped for its price.

This gives the island a pleasingly remote and faraway feel … as if the cares of the modern world are unable to pass through the thick forestation.

A 1mm raised leather bezel and raised camera bump protect your screen and camera from scratches, while redesigned side buttons in tonal metal are pleasingly clicky and responsive.

It’s airy but strong enough to hold—rather than disintegrate under—a healthy smear of basil pesto and the red pepper and almond relish chicken salad, lightly dressed with arugula, which lovingly sits between the sandwich’s pleasingly square slices.

Moochi ice cream, in vanilla and mango flavours, were light, flavoursome, and pleasingly sweet and brought the curtain down on a bravura performance from Umai.

Pleasingly, the switch between petrol and is seamless, and you only notice the ICE when you’re really leaning on the engine.

The coarse side of a box grater will produce a pleasingly rough texture somewhere between finely chopped and a smooth puree.

The Ogorki martini ($22), made with pickle brine, is pleasingly salty, and there’s a huge selection of flavoured vodkas ($10-$12 a shot).

There’s no single-person tax to pay for here; VonShef's two-litre machine is not only perfect for solo diners but comes in at a pleasingly smaller price too.

The work here is pleasingly diverse.

This piece evokes the imagined wiring of an early computer, a busy yet pleasingly neat pastel work of intrigue, interconnectedness and complexity.

As an American who studied and worked in Paris, Thomson also throws in a little of the French Impressionist stuff (whole-tone scales) and the ‘20s modernist stuff (some pleasingly dissonant counterpoint).

Debutant Alaya F, daughter of Pooja Bedi, makes up for it by her pleasingly sweet, limpid-eyed insistence on acceptance and, yes, that thing called love which never goes out of vogue.

Owners Mike Robinson and Brett Graham are both keen on good game, but across the menu Sally Abé’s cooking is pleasingly down-to-earth, though beautifully done.

Pleasingly, I interviewed the great man about it.

These are woken by a proximity sensor, and when alerted glow pleasingly through the aluminium surface.

White paint can be used to draw the eye upwards and show off pleasingly high ceilings.

A block of a faultless chicken liver parfait from the set menu arrives pleasingly pink.