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• The Guardian view on habits: a pandemic of lost routines | Editorial

  31-10-2021 19:25
  
  Never before have our daily routines been so altered. But we need good habits and must rebuild themThe pandemic has broken many things, and among them are habits of a lifetime. Some people forged new norms, and discovered in lockdown new routines (working from home, gardening, baking, exercise, petcare), a tendency only underlined by the repetitiveness of the days themselves. The evident popularity of some new habits, such as cycling, will persist. Repeat something once a day for weeks and it be
  
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• Annie Evans obituary

  31-10-2021 18:03
  
  My friend Annie Evans, who has died aged 68 of cancer, was unassuming, understated and modest. She made a significant contribution to social housing in London and was also a talented artist.Born and brought up in Portsmouth, Hampshire, Annie was the only child of Irish parents, Hilda (nee Whelan) and Green Evans. Her father came to Britain during the second world war and joined the RAF. Her mother was a nurse who worked at the Victoria hospital in East Grinstead, West Sussex, at the burns unit t
  
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• Late Constable review – a thrilling enigma

  31-10-2021 14:00
  
  Royal Academy, London
  Turbulent, fervent and mostly unseen in his lifetime, the late paintings of John Constable are at once figurative, abstract and staggering to beholdA hard rain falls on a glittering grey sea. Wind harries sullen clouds across low-lying horizons. Overcast skies shed a pale glare on the churned earth below. Thunder and gloom, turbid brown rivers, corn standing solid as a wall at the field’s edge beneath squalls of paint, thick as mortar. This is summer in John Constable
  
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