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• These Richard Lange Watches Prove That Three’s a Crowd-Pleaser

  25-12-2016 21:00
  
  The Richard Lange Jumping Seconds was an outgrowth of the remontoire spring used in the movement of the Richard Lange Perpetual Calendar Terraluna
  An unusual triple regulator dial has inspired a trio of appealing A. Lange & Söhne timepieces…James D. Malcolmson
  
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• Five Southern Chefs to Watch

  25-12-2016 19:00
  
  Hearty, innovative, and updated traditional Southern fare is in delicious demand…Erin Lentz
  
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• What to do with unwanted gift cards

  25-12-2016 16:57 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  Gift cards are a popular present at the holidays — the National Retail Federation says more than half of consumers plan to give one this year.But they aren't always wanted — research organization CEB TowerGroup estimates that $1 billion of the $130 billion spent on gift cards last year went...
  
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• Readers’ recipe swap: leftovers | Dale Berning Sawa

  25-12-2016 15:00
  
  You’ll want to cook extra large quantities just so you can enjoy these recipes for pizza, pie, tart, curry and pastillas.Take part in our next theme – scroll to the bottom to find out how...
  It felt absurd to be cooking a roast, complete with sides and trimmings, just to have the leftover ingredients I needed for a bunch of other dishes, but I did it anyway. Everything made it into your recipes – except my roast potatoes. They were insanely good, so they got eaten. Which, by al
  
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• Contrast at Play in Contemporary Vancouver Residence

  25-12-2016 15:00
  
  In 2014, Scott Posno built this contemporary single family residence in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood of Vancouver, BC. Designed for a family of four, the house is decidedly modern in aesthetic, but incorporates some neighborhood specific details to complement its surroundings. The stained cedar exterior is similar to the wood siding commonly used in the area. The entryway is recessed before the second story, giving an abstracted sense to the street facing facade.Starkly co
  
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• Claire Ptak’s baking recipes for Christmas leftovers | Baking

  25-12-2016 15:00
  
  The dishes are washed, the games packed away and all that remains is some broken mince pies and a wedge of stilton. The time has come for some bakes – one sweet, the other savoury – that make heroes of your Christmas leftoversIf you are anything like me, you live in horror of running out of food – especially over the festive period. When I have invited guests over, I buy and bake more than I will ever need, then relish getting creative with leftovers in the days that follow. If
  
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• Nature is the ultimate Christmas gift: let's protect it

  25-12-2016 09:00
  
  Even in an ordinary English garden, the clean lines of winter please the eye and rest the soul. This Christmas, it’s time to appreciate the inestimable value of the gift found just outside our front doorsThe rich diversity of the world around us, from the smallest insect to the music of the stars, is from the perspective of the human race, a gift. For the purposes of this article, I don’t think it matters whether you think creation (even Darwin’s theory of evolution itself) mus
  
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• Nativity play at Wintershall estate, Surrey – in pictures

  25-12-2016 09:00
  
  The nativity has been performed at Guilford’s Wintershall estate for 26 years. Shepherds and sheep rub shoulders with donkeys and wise men on horseback, while adults are advised that young children may find the Herod scene upsetting. Photographer Leon Neal paid a visit Continue reading...
  
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• Alone in the City: a Christmas Day walk around London

  25-12-2016 07:30
  
  The City of London is yours on Christmas Day. The cordon of noise replaced by a calm that allows a walker to take in history, heritage, beauty – and changeHead straight for the belly of the sleeping beast. The place is deserted, which is a once-in-a year situation. Start at the Tower of London since so much else does, including the Wall and therefore known history itself. You may have been this way before but been pushed for time and for space, preoccupied by whatever and generally kept at
  
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• The Pen of Your Childhood Dreams

  25-12-2016 02:00
  
  Astrograph, a limited-edition pen designed to resemble a rocket ship
  MB&F and Caran d’Ache join forces to make a writing instrument that launches imagination into orbit…Alix Moise
  
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• 'Christmas is about sharing love – Kate would be so proud of her African school'

  25-12-2016 01:01
  
  Kate Gross, charity head and former Tony Blair aide, died two years ago. Her mother talks about her legacy – including a new school in Sierra Leone It takes eight hours of travel on asphalt, dirt roads and grass tracks to get from Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, to the remote village of Kpondu, where, among some of the world’s poorest children, a group of charity workers from the UK have helped open the Kate Gross Community School. It was in Kpondu, in a densely forested area
  
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• This New Book Is for Lovers of Vintage Chronographs

  25-12-2016 00:00
  
  classic chronograph design from the 1940s / ’50s
  A time of excellence in watchmaking history is made more accessible in Chronographs for Collectors…James D. Malcolmson
  
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