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• Travel Essentials for Getting Through the Holidays in Style

  26-11-2016 22:00
  
  From wrinkle-resistant formal wear to a collapsible carry-on, your holiday packing list is covered… Phoebe Neuman
  
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• 7 Perfect Gifts for Private Travelers

  26-11-2016 20:30
  
  Even the most jaded jet-setters will appreciate these high-flying and smooth-sailing selections…Compiled by Bruce Wallin
  
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• Don't get nostalgic: Punk music memorabilia burned in London

  26-11-2016 19:12 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  LONDON - Don't get nostalgic about punk music — and if you do, don't go collecting memorabilia from the glory days of the Sex Pistols.That seemed to be the message Saturday when the son of Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren and fashion designer Vivienne Westwood set fire to an extensive...
  
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• Take a Look at Ferrari’s Last Great Prototype-Sports Category Racecar

  26-11-2016 19:00
  
  1972 Ferrari 312PBThe Ferrari 312PB won all of the World Sportscar Championship races it entered in 1972…
  
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• Celebrate the New Year by Chartering One of These Sensational Superyachts

  26-11-2016 18:00
  
  Whether you’re searching for the perfect party space or ultimate water toys, we’ve got you covered…Rebekah Bell
  
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• A desire named street cart: Red tape stifles NYC vendors

  26-11-2016 15:39 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  NEW YORK - With a guy selling pretzels and hot dogs on every other block, Manhattan must seem to tourists like a Shangri-La for street food vendors — a place where any entrepreneur willing to stand in bad weather for long hours can hustle up a living. In reality, though, New York's food cart...
  
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• 52 Stunningly Scandinavian Interior Designs

  26-11-2016 15:00
  
  It’s straightforward while remaining ultra-functional. It celebrates natural light in a place that can go many months with very little sun. It there anything as stunningly simple as a Scandinavian interior?Known for its simplicity, function, and connection to the outdoors, the appeal and possibility of Scandinavian design has spread it all over the world. AKA, much more than just IKEA.See our 52 favorite Scandinavian interior ideas below.Image: Bohemian Nordic InteriorThis minimalistic kit
  
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• Haute cuisine? Santa serves up sleigh-borne dinner in the sky

  26-11-2016 14:22
  
  BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Not waiting at home for Santa Claus, gourmets in Brussels are flying off aboard his sleigh to dine with him above the city's rooftops and twinkling Christmas lights.
  
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• Loons and lager, ducks on draft: Birders, brewers form flock

  26-11-2016 14:18 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  SABATTUS, Maine - In the worlds of birders and craft beer lovers, the new paradigm is to enjoy an ale along with the eagles.Tours and events aimed at attracting beer lovers and bird enthusiasts are popping up across the country. They attract bearded microbrew lovers, field-guide-wielding bird...
  
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• I fell in love with a woman, and everything changed | Alys Fowler

  26-11-2016 12:00
  
  If I’m rambling a little, it’s because I’m still trying to make sense of why I need to write this down, here of all placesI have buried myself in my garden at times. Lost myself in the depths of rich loam, renewed myself in new growth, scattered parts of me like self-sown seeds. I am my garden.So every time I come here to write about my garden, I am writing about myself. Between the beetroot seedlings and the apple prunings, there’s a little bit of me here and there. Cont
  
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• Ask Alys: will my amaryllis flower again?

  26-11-2016 12:00
  
  Alys Fowler has the answer My amaryllis was in bloom when I brought it in from the garden, where it had spent the summer. The four beautiful flowers have since died. How do I manage the bulb now, and will it flower again in December?I doubt it will flower again at Christmas – and if it does, nip it in the bud, so to speak, because it will exhaust itself. I imagine that after you put the bulb out, it got wet in late spring (when we had lots of rain), grew healthy leaves over the summer
  
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• What I’m really thinking: the NHS speech therapist

  26-11-2016 10:00
  
  Sometimes the parent’s concerns are so out of range that it becomes a safeguarding issueWhen a parent insists their child has problems, despite evidence to the contrary, my heart sinks. The NHS is designed to support and empower, but cannot help those who feel there is something wrong when evidence points to normal development. We spend a lot of time explaining the normal range to such parents. Help is available for those who need it, and that’s how it should be.Our concern is to mee
  
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• Jessica Koslow: Jessica Koslow: how to 'bake-fry' an egg | Kitchen encounters

  26-11-2016 10:00
  
  Chef, restaurateur and preserves specialist Jessica Koslow reveals her kitchen secrets and a love of popcorn – for dinner.Jessica will be taking over Cook’s Instagram account this weekend! Follow her @guardian_cook for ideas and inspiration.My kitchen is … a great little space. I bought my home in 2008 and the first thing I did was tear out the kitchen, which looked like a ship’s galley. It has a wonderful view of downtown Los Angeles, which the old kitchen masked. The r
  
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• Modern tribes: the box set bore

  26-11-2016 09:00
  
  Why don’t you start with The Crown? All I’ll say is, it’s about the Queen, I can’t wait to see how it turns out God I’m exhausted, are you watching The Crown? It’s amazing, you’ve got such a treat in store, I wasn’t going to, because I’m still finishing season four of Orange Is The New Black, can you believe? I think it’s definitely the best, I heard five is out next June – you know who Piper Chapman is, right? But
  
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• Bernie Sanders meets Spike Lee: ‘Where do we go? Where is the hope?’

  26-11-2016 09:00
  
  The senator and the film-maker discuss Trump, where Clinton went wrong – and how to make a difference in 2017Bernie Sanders charges head-first into a hotel room in midtown Manhattan, a man with no time to waste. This is not the campaign-era Bernie, the Bernie of memes and ice-cream flavours and jokey, Feel The Bern fun. All that has been swept away and replaced with something harder, more urgent, a sense that, with Clinton vanquished, cometh the hour, cometh the man, so that even to call h
  
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• Beauty: skincare products made by makeup brands | Sali Hughes

  26-11-2016 09:00
  
  I’m unlikely to turn to makeup brands for active skincare, but rarely make up without first applying one of their illuminating day creamsSomething curious is happening in beauty, whereby many of the big skincare brands are seeing little growth in sales, while figures for skincare products sold by companies specialising in makeup are through the roof (Charlotte Tilbury’s Magic Cream being a case in point). One would expect women to gravitate towards expertise, clinical trials and spec
  
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• What links one apple, two pears, three plums? The Weekend quiz

  26-11-2016 08:00
  
  From fruit to film to fragrance: test your knowledge with the Weekend quiz1 “Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle; she died young.” Who did?
  2 Kramer’s Reality Tour visits sites connected with which sitcom?
  3 Which European state retains capital punishment?
  4 What begins 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34...?
  5 Which psychotherapy method was proposed by Arthur Janov?
  6 What 2015 release topped a BFI poll as the best ever LGBT film?
  7 Forte, terzo and foible are parts of what implement
  
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• Is furnished or unfurnished better for a year-long rental?

  26-11-2016 07:59
  
  We’re not sure what to do with our stuff if we don’t take it with us – it’s a nightmare!Every 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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• Bird on a flyer

  26-11-2016 07:48 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  In September 2009, Chandra Kremski placed a notice in her church’s fall newsletter, in which she asked her fellow parishioners at the Winnipeg Centre Vineyard Church if anybody was interested in helping her mount a Christmas craft show.Kremski, a contemporary artist who has a painting on...
  
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• Should I be a liberal dad and buy booze for my teenage daughter?

  26-11-2016 07:45
  
  Millie wants two Bacardi Breezers and a Jack Daniels miniature for a party. I’ve no idea what to do for the bestIt’s said that friends bring happiness into your life but best friends bring beer. It’s blokey nonsense, of course, but beer has been a good friend to me.Unlike spirits or wine, beer lends a friendly foaming cohesion to groups of middle-aged men. At least, it does to the school dads who for 10 years I’ve met monthly for a few cheeky ones. “Dads’ beer
  
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• Forced marriage: ‘I broke the chain. I’m proud of that’

  26-11-2016 07:45
  
  At 14, Jasvinder Sanghera ran away from home rather than suffer a forced marriage. She was determined her own children would be free to choose for themselvesJasvinder Sanghera still remembers leaving her dad the note 35 years ago. He worked nights, and while he was asleep one day she wrote to him, saying: “I love you, but I’m not the daughter you want me to be. I can’t marry a stranger.” And then she ran away.She waited for her best friend’s brother outside the fact
  
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• A letter to … My cheating partner, from my deathbed

  26-11-2016 07:29
  
  The letter you always wanted to writeI have been lying in this hospital bed for 24 hours now, waiting for your deathbed confession. I am pretty sure it is not going to come. You won’t salve your conscience by telling me the truth, because I know now that you don’t have one.We both know it is a matter of days. After all the treatments we have come to this prognosis: that’s all I have. Continue reading...
  
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• 7 ways to tell if you’re heading for divorce

  26-11-2016 07:29
  
  Do you tell your partner you appreciate them? Are you having enough sex? Here’s how to gauge the health of your relationshipProblems such as stresses brought on by circumstances (new job, moving, living somewhere too small, a new addition to the family, etc) are often fairly easy to address and work on. They are usually a blip unless they are ignored and turn into some of the bigger things below. None of the things listed mean your relationship is heading for divorce unless one, or both of
  
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• Fridge magnetism: the cool place that’s full of our family’s warmth

  26-11-2016 07:15
  
  Our kitchen fridge is an intimate and joyous exhibition, scrapbook, museum of memory and comedy stage for the entire householdIf the kitchen is the heart of the home, the fridge is the heart of our family, its raggedy jigsaw of photos and notes telling the story of our lives. There’s the card in the top left corner that proclaims, “Good friends are like stars, you don’t always see them but you know they’re always there”, sent by my best friend when her cancer kept u
  
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• Why I love... actor Andrew Lincoln

  26-11-2016 07:00
  
  His face has undergone such a journey from the 90s drama This Life through seven seasons of The Walking DeadThere are people whose baby photos make you exclaim, “Wow, you have the same face!” But some of us have shifted so far away from the original composition that it’s a little startling to see. I was thinking about this while staring at British actor Andrew Lincoln, whose face has undergone such a journey, and by whom I am still entranced.Like most Brits of a certa
  
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• Tim Dowling: the park is a social place – it doesn’t suit me or the dog

  26-11-2016 07:00
  
  The little dog often gets lost taking detours in order to avoid other dogs. It’s a strategy I have some sympathy with My wife is in the middle of walking the length of the Thames, east to west, in 10-mile segments, every Wednesday. The group she walks with changes from week to week, but she never misses it.“You can come if you want,” she says to me early one morning. “Henley to Reading.” Continue reading...
  
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• Pecans | Readers’ recipe swap

  26-11-2016 07:00
  
  So what are these nuts good for – apart from sweet and sticky pies? How about pesto, pancakes, soup and crumble?Take part! Scroll to the bottom to find out howI have many happy memories of my 2012 road trip through the American south-west, which took in everything from fog and enchiladas in San Francisco’s Mission district to the Prada art installation in Marfa, Texas. But one unexpected highlight was the pecan orchards. “Orchard” probably isn’t the right word, thou
  
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• Claire Ptak’s recipes for pomegranate prosecco gelee and granita | Baking the seasons

  26-11-2016 07:00
  
  A light and palate-cleansing pomegranate prosecco gelee and a granita to keep you cool after a big feastThanksgiving has just passed and, as most Americans will tell you, it is our favourite holiday. It is also the least commercial, with no gifts exchanged. Rather, it’s all about the meal. Thanksgiving is the thing I miss most about home, so I always recreate it here with expat friends, curious locals and my family. We shop for weeks, cook for days and lie around all night to digest. Lefto
  
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• Cake: the glue that binds our family

  26-11-2016 07:00
  
  Made with pity, with guilt, with love. Growing up, Sheila Hayman discovered that baking was a sure way to win hearts“I might as well be comfortable,” says my father, dragging the Chippendale dining chair into the tiny, none-too-clean kitchen. These days, the fashion is for expanding the kitchen so that everybody can hang out in it all day, watching somebody else at work. But this was back in the 1970s and my mother came from a generation for whom the heart of the home was a
  
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• Blind date: ‘I wish I’d taken off my cycle leggings’

  26-11-2016 07:00
  
  David, 33, global health adviser, meets Marco, 35, buyer managerWhat were you hoping for?
  A chilled evening, interesting food and nice company. Continue reading...
  
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• 8 Splurge-Worthy Gifts for Your Fashion-Obsessed Loved Ones

  26-11-2016 03:00
  
  Extraordinarily stylish gifts like a $13,000 robe and a once-in-a-lifetime Stefano Ricci experience…Compiled by Anush Benliyan
  
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• 5 Gifts for the Gem Lover

  26-11-2016 02:00
  
  Exceptional gifts and experiences to amaze the geophile in your life…Compiled by Carolyn Meers
  
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• Quick crossword No 14,525

  26-11-2016 01:00
  
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• Prize crossword No 27,052

  26-11-2016 01:00
  
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• 6 Gifts for the Outdoor Enthusiast

  26-11-2016 01:00
  
  Exciting gifts and experiences for the open-air adventurer…Compiled by Carolyn Meers
  
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• 8 Gifts for the Music Lover

  26-11-2016 00:00
  
  From vintage guitars to top-notch music-festival passes, we highlight eight offerings for your biggest fan…Compiled by Danielle Cutler
  
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