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• Luxury Burma by Land and Sea

  19-11-2016 21:00
  
  Strand Cruise, a luxury riverboat that made its inaugural voyage last December
  Experience exciting Burma by luxury cruise and five-star hotel…Tim Johnson
  
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• NYC exhibit brings focus to temporary homes and their design

  19-11-2016 20:02 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  NEW YORK - When it comes to the design of homes and interiors, ideas can have surprising origins.The origins of Modernism's spare functionalism can be traced to housing solutions created to solve Europe's severe housing crisis in the aftermath of World War I. And once-radical concepts like open...
  
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• Hypnotize Your Boss With This Automatic Sand Drawing Machine

  19-11-2016 19:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Hoping for a raise or better treatment from your boss? Why not get him this Automatic Sand Drawing Machine? I know it’s a steep price but maybe you can find a pattern to control him. Spirals equals raise and flower pattern make him excited to see you. Well, maybe. Not worth taking the risk? You can buy it for yourself and put it on your desk and you will draw groups of workmates gawking at it. In the meantime you sneak out to the office kitchen and steal everyone’s lunch. Clever, cle
  
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• No bones about it, group wants to preserve doggie haven

  19-11-2016 17:11 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  ST. JOHNSBURY, Vt. - At Dog Mountain, canines and their human owners can take walks on a 150-acre Vermont hillside, enjoy several ponds, attend dog parties and even visit a chapel and an art gallery. Now, a group is hoping to preserve the doggie haven and the vision of Stephen Huneck, the late...
  
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• Barclay Butera Puts His Spin on a Custom Rolls-Royce

  19-11-2016 17:00
  
  He recently lent his signature style to this Rolls-Royce Dawn—a one-off design that made its debut in August at the 2016 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance
  The interior designer lends his signature coastal-chic style to a client’s bespoke Rolls-Royce Dawn…Lori Bryan
  
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• Is Your Home Trendy or Timeless?

  19-11-2016 15:00
  
  When it comes time to redesign your home, you’ll likely find yourself asking an age-old question: Should you go with a modern and trendy design or opt for a more timeless look?While these two options are not necessarily mutually exclusive, it does take some know-how to combine them cohesively. Trendy can be too bold, and traditional can be too boring. However, finding a balance of both trendy and traditional means you’ll love the space now, and continue to enjoy it years down th
  
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• Community Church in Norway Displays Iconic Geometry

  19-11-2016 15:00
  
  The Knarvik Community Church is located on the west coast of Norway (north of Bergen) and overlooks the local town center. The building— deigned by Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter — is adapted to an existing hillside between man-made and natural environment.The church signals its function with a sacral dignity and a recognizable form. The compact volume is split into two stories on a rectangular plan, separating the sacred spaces above from the cultural and administrative functi
  
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• Lynne Truss: my rescue cats inspired me to write two novels

  19-11-2016 14:59
  
  The writer, 61, on worrying at school, enjoying massive midlife success and not spotting missing apostrophesI remember being in junior school and wondering if I was the only person who had thoughts. I would see the other kids in the playground and think: “Do they have thoughts or do they just run about?”I feel sorry for people who have massive success when they’re young. I was 48 when Eats, Shoots & Leaves became a bestseller and that helped me deal with it. All the time it
  
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• How I made Wendy the real star of Peter Pan

  19-11-2016 14:06
  
  The director Sally Cookson is renowned for turning family shows upside down. As her National Theatre Peter Pan opens, she talks about why she made Wendy the real star of the show“I have vivid memories of my son at about four months old, sitting in a cardboard box in my sitting room while a friend and I were having a meeting about a show.” Sally Cookson is recalling what it was like, 20 years ago, to manage a new career as an actor-turned-director with two young children, Arthur and N
  
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• Experience: my family’s hypochondria saved my life

  19-11-2016 13:44
  
  ‘I hadn’t even put the antibiotic in my mouth when I started sneezing, scratching everywhere, and my scalp felt like it was on fire’Whenever we went on holiday, my mother always took a first-aid kit packed with medicines, including cortisone injections, despite the fact that my father and I are only mildly allergic to bee stings. Our kitchen drawers at home in the Roman countryside resembled hospital cupboards: there were eight different aspirins from all over the world, 10 typ
  
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• Plant of the week: mahonia

  19-11-2016 12:00
  
  A late-flowering evergreen with sunny yellow flowers and blue-black berries for the birdsWhat is it? If you’re looking for a late-flowering evergreen for a shady spot, this could be the one: mahonia (aka Oregon grape) is a family of shrubs that sport sunny yellow flowers loved by pollinators, followed by blue-black berries that the birds will enjoy.Any good varieties? Mahonia × media ‘Charity’ and M. × media ‘Winter Sun’ make a stately 5m x 4m
  
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• Ask Alys Fowler: what can I do about a dying privet hedge?

  19-11-2016 12:00
  
  Our gardening expert has the answerMy privet hedge seems to be dying. It’s at least 40 years old, but I thought you couldn’t kill them. What should I replace it with if it does die?
  Privet is definitely on the tough-as-old-boots list, but I have no idea what ails yours. If I come across something that’s dying and the cause is not obvious, I first check the backs of leaves (any fungi, insects, strange spots, nibbled edges?) and nooks and crannies (anything hiding there?), t
  
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• Suzi Quatro: ‘Who do I most admire? My sister, for being on marriage number seven’

  19-11-2016 10:30
  
  The musician on why she bit her sister, Gone With The Wind and her hatred of family argumentsBorn in Detroit, Suzi Quatro, 66, played in her father’s jazz band, and at 14 formed her own, all-girl group. She moved to the UK in 1971, and has since had 18 hit singles, including Can The Can and Devil Gate Drive, selling more than 55m records. Last month, she was made an honorary doctor of music by Anglia Ruskin University. She is married for the second time, has two children and lives in Essex
  
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• Yotam Ottolenghi’s walnut recipes

  19-11-2016 10:00
  
  They’re the second most popular nuts in the world, but in my kitchen they rule the roost. Here’s why…Walnuts are the second most popular nut in the world, after almonds. In my kitchen, however, they are second to none.The short season for young, fresh “wet” walnuts is upon us, and few things give me as much pleasure as cracking open the hard, dry shell of a newly-picked nut to reveal that moist, pale kernel inside. Its texture is yielding, not crisp, and its flavou
  
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• What I’m really thinking: the night receptionist

  19-11-2016 10:00
  
  ‘If the intercom goes off at 2am and I see a couple who can barely stand, I’ll more than likely say the hotel is full even when it isn’t’People assume I get bored, but I enjoy the solitude. I like the hourly walks through the quiet corridors and listening to the rain on the windows while enjoying a cup of tea. I relish finishing a good book or watching the birds in the car park feeding on the muffins I put out yesterday.The tiredness is the hardest. Sometimes I
  
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• 'All my life suddenly made sense': how it feels to be diagnosed with autism late in life

  19-11-2016 10:00
  
  Jon Adams was 52 when he learned he had Asperger syndrome. As adult referrals rise, he and others explain the impact – good and bad – of a late diagnosisOne day during his last year at primary school, Jon Adams drew a picture of a street in Portsmouth, the city where he still lives. The scene he drew had no people in it, but its representation of everything else suggested a talent beyond his years.The headteacher happened to see the picture, and said he wanted to put it up in the sch
  
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• Niklas Ekstedt’s kitchen: ‘Traditional cooking is important, and it’s disappearing’ | Kitchen encounters

  19-11-2016 09:59
  
  Swedish star chef Niklas Ekstedt on open-fire cooking, spuds, and what to do with burnt hay seasoning.Niklas will somehow be finding time to take over Cook’s Instagram account this weekend. Follow him at @guardian_cook!My kitchen is … very simple. I live in a suburb of Stockholm. I have a sink, a chopping board, a few knives and a small stove. Outside I have a firepit and an old grill. By Swedish standards, it’s a normal size. We have a table where we have all our family meals
  
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• Modern tribes: the non-driver

  19-11-2016 09:00
  
  You’re not taking yours to football on Sunday are you? Brilliant, it’s no fun carrying the kit for milesBye – wait, you’re not going near me are you, not a problem if not, I was going to get the bus, but if you’re going that way, it seems a bit mad – great, I’ll just find my coat and say goodbye. Sorry, wait – did I bring an umbrella? So where are you parked, right down there, hardly worth driving was it, only joking, but parking these days. That&r
  
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• Clive James: ‘I was seconded to the SAS only briefly, during the hunt for Saddam Hussein’

  19-11-2016 09:00
  
  ‘I tracked him over a thousand square miles of desert, following the tang of his excellent Cuban cigars. Most of the Arab men in that area smoke fake Crème Caramels, so the mission was a cinch’I am sad to be told that there is once again an ex-SAS guy on the loose who might be enhancing the story when he tells of his adventures. SAS personnel are meant to keep their mouths shut when they return to civilian life, but those of us who have defied the odds often find it hard
  
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• Which painting depicts a train bearing down on a hare? The Weekend quiz

  19-11-2016 08:00
  
  From Bible to band to brown-eyed girl, test your knowledge with the Weekend quiz. Answers below (no peeking now)
  1 Which painting depicts a train bearing down on a hare?
  2 Which company was nearly bankrupted by a free flights promotion?
  3 Elisabeth Kübler-Ross proposed the five stages of what?
  4 Who was proposed, but not crowned, as king of England in 1066?
  5 What is the last book of the Old Testament?
  6 Which band brandished a Gabba Gabba Hey sign on stage?
  7 Which two Nobel prize winners
  
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• What Christmas presents would my 90-year-old grandparents enjoy?

  19-11-2016 08:00
  
  It’s a difficult purchase, but I want them to enjoy my giftEvery week a Guardian Money reader submits a question, and it’s up to you to help him or her out – a selection of the best answers will appear in next Saturday’s paper.This week’s question: Continue reading...
  
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• My workout: ‘Samba is about enjoying the music and expressing yourself’

  19-11-2016 08:00
  
  Maxine-Laurie Marshall, 28: ‘It has become so much more for me than exercise, but it has improved my fitness’I discovered samba through a dance aerobics class. One day the instructor asked if anyone was interested in performing at Notting Hill carnival. I’d never done anything like that before and liked the idea, so signed up. I went to a night run by the Paraíso School of Samba, and that’s when I saw what I was getting into. I just fell in love and thought, I have
  
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• I remember her! And those rad boots!

  19-11-2016 07:47 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  Before they broke my teeth, the red plaid boots belonged to Maggie, who placed them in my hands the way you would a child.The year has escaped me. It could have been 2002; maybe early 2003. All I remember is that for some young Winnipeg women of rock ’n’ roll inclination, Maggie was...
  
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• Stay calm, carry on

  19-11-2016 07:45 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  BALTIMORE — At many schools, the third-grader would have landed in the principal’s office.But in a hardscrabble neighbourhood in west Baltimore, the boy who tussled with a classmate one recent morning instead found his way to a quiet room that smelled of lemon grass, where he could
  
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• Opening a window on to my wife’s passions

  19-11-2016 07:45
  
  When my wife died, I felt that nothing was unsaid between us. Now I wish I could share with her my pride about her work in the heritage sector“Adam, if you could say one more thing to Helen, what would it be,” asks my daftly insensitive but well-meaning cousin, Holly.My answer shoots straight from the heart; surprising me and shocking her. “I’d tell Helen how much better I understood her job, how good she was at it and how loved, valued and respected she wa
  
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• When wills go bad: ‘It was the cruellest thing you could imagine’

  19-11-2016 07:30
  
  The mother who left all her money to animals rather than her daughter. The man forced to read out a catalogue of his father’s failings. Wills can leave emotional scarsTwo years ago, my partner and I finally wrote proper wills. The basic instructions for guardianship of our young children, written years before, were no longer fit-for-purpose. We were prompted by Will Aid, a charitable scheme that runs every November. It was hard to resist its logic: it is irresponsible not to sort out your
  
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• A letter to … My grandmother, the only one who understood me

  19-11-2016 07:30
  
  The letter you always wanted to writeI remember taking a late-night walk, a few months after you died, when a thought reduced me to tears. I was ambling along a bridge that divided my apartment building from your former nursing home and I thought: “You’re never going to see me as a person in love.”At that time, I thought I was in love. Maybe I was. My feelings for an unavailable man consumed me in a way nothing else had or should. I didn&rsquo
  
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• 7 things to do if you don’t like your children’s friends

  19-11-2016 07:30
  
  Be honest with yourself about why you dislike them, try to befriend them. And never let your child know you feel that wayChances are you are going to loathe at least one of your kid’s friends, sometimes for no good reason, but this is one situation where you have to tread very carefully.1. Never admit it. That’s the fastest way to make them infinitely more attractive to toddlers and teenagers. If you want to change a vague friendship into something resembling Romeo and Juli
  
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• Readers’ recipe swap: Kale | Dale Berning Sawa

  19-11-2016 07:00
  
  Snigger at the smoothies and the chips all you like: today’s nduja salad, lasagne, soup and flapjacks prove the leaf is more than an overhyped ‘superfood’Take part! Scroll to the bottom to find out howI know a seven-year-old from Brooklyn who has had an “I ❤ KALE” pendant since she was a toddler (because she sincerely always has loved it), which means kale was a thing at least two years before Beyoncé danced in a Kale sweatshirt in 2014. Which is to sa
  
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• Mum’s bucket list: ‘Have a great time after I’ve gone’

  19-11-2016 07:00
  
  When Kate Greene was dying, she left behind a list for her sons – an eclectic mix of thoughts, reminders and life lessons. Now her moving story has been made into a film starring Emilia Fox and Rafe Spall. Tanith Carey meets her familyKate Greene was always one of those people who made lists to organise her thoughts.Even as a 16-year-old, she was already carefully writing out her requirements for a “contract of mateship” for her boyfriend, Singe. Continue reading...
  
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• Claire Ptak’s recipes for coffee walnut financiers and home-made walnut whips | Baking

  19-11-2016 07:00
  
  Get your nutcrackers ready for the first walnuts of winter: it’s time for an adult take on those childhood favourites the Walnut Whip and the French financier. The leftovers will even spice up your hot chocolateThere is a shop near where I live called Leila’s. It’s a very fine shop, carefully curated so that you always end up buying ingredients that go together. They harmonise. Not long ago, craving cool-climate flavours to match the weather, I bought rye bread, creme fraiche,
  
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• Blind date: ‘He doesn’t look like a serial killer’

  19-11-2016 07:00
  
  Did sparks fly when Astrid met Joe?What were you hoping for?
  A nice evening and someone interesting. Continue reading...
  
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• Why I love… Ciara

  19-11-2016 06:59
  
  I remember watching the Goodies video slack-jawed with wonderI am not a natural dancer. I acquit myself admirably on a dancefloor, but is it wholly organic and natural? Well, no. Someone who seems to have no trace of this problem is American singer and dancer Ciara, my dance inspiration.My first experience of Ciara, 31, came with her debut single, Goodies, back in 2004. As debuts go, Goodies is one of the greats of the noughties; I was sent her album to review for my uni magazine,
  
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• Wines Great and Small

  19-11-2016 02:00
  
  From magnums to Melchiors, these atypical bottles can age for years to come or be opened now…Christian Navarro
  
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• A Porsche Watch That Brings Back Bauhaus

  19-11-2016 02:00
  
  Porsche Design’s 1919 Datetimer Eternity
  The titanium timepiece takes its design cues from the German school of style and the Porsche 356… Viju Mathew
  
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• Yukon jewelry designer's sales skyrocket after nod from Duchess of Cambridge

  19-11-2016 01:34 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  WHITEHORSE - A Canadian jewelry designer discovered the impact a royal endorsement could have for her business after the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's visit to Yukon.While Prince William and Kate visited Carcross on Sept. 28, the Duchess wore a pair of bronze earrings by designer Shelley...
  
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• Quick crossword No 14,519

  19-11-2016 01:00
  
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• Friendship on Route 57

  19-11-2016 00:09 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  If you live in Winchester, Va., Saturday is your last chance to catch The Cross-Town Bus, a play being staged at the Winchester Little Theatre.The 90-minute production, penned by Winchester resident Jan Kirby, revolves around a group of individuals who share a bus ride five mornings a week.
  
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