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• London’s Newest Hotel Is the Perfect Home Away from Home

  18-03-2017 22:00
  
  The Franklin went through a 19-month renovation led by Anouska Hempel and completed last August
  Old-school ambience meets modern edge at London’s Franklin…
  Sandra Ramani
  
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• P. Johnson’s new Causal Suits are Perfect for Spring

  18-03-2017 20:00
  
  The new collection from P. Johnson brings the Land Down Under’s laid-back attitude to bespoke tailoring… Phoebe Neuman
  
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• Benetti B-Now Fast Superyacht Series

  18-03-2017 17:00
  
  The Italian builder’s three new yachts cut build time in half and are faster than other comperable vessels…Michael Verdon
  
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• 12 books later, See tells how holiday letter launched career

  18-03-2017 16:06 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  LOS ANGELES - If she'd just stuck with her plan to write that family Christmas letter back in the early 1990s, Lisa See might still be reviewing bestselling novels instead of writing them.But the 1995 publication of "On Gold Mountain," an acclaimed history of Chinese migration to California...
  
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• Prize crossword No 27,148

  18-03-2017 15:18
  
  To access the print version please click hereThe first five correct entries drawn each week win Guardian Style and Can You Solve My Problems, worth £34.99
  Entries to: The Guardian Crossword No 27,148, P.O. Box 6603, Birmingham, B26 3PR, or Fax to 0121-742 1313 by first post on Friday. Solution and winners in the Guardian on Monday 27 March.Continue reading...
  
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• Arianna Huffington: ‘The work culture in Silicon Valley needs to change’

  18-03-2017 15:00
  
  The media entrepreneur, 66, on turning an idea into a global news company, sexism in Silicon Valley and being in loveMy mother made us feel like we could do anything. My sister and I lived with her in a one-bedroom apartment in Greece after my parents separated. When I saw a picture of Cambridge University in a magazine and said I wanted to go, she never said: “Well, you have no money and you don’t speak English.” Instead it was: “Let’s see how we can make that happ
  
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• Eat Yellow Dino Brain Egg Molder

  18-03-2017 12:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  How fitting, the dino egg molder .. molding chicken eggs. Which are in direct blood line of the giant dino beasts. In case you watched Kong, Skull Island (which sucked! I think) you might as me have hope, that somewhere in a inner earth bubble dinosaurs still exist.
  Mold Eggs Into Dinosaurs
  I love this egg mold, I find it extremely nailing it, especially if you start eating it in a way where you expose the egg yolk. Which totally looks like brain. Yellow brain to be precise. Here is a thought, h
  
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• Plant of the week: lungwort

  18-03-2017 12:00
  
  Make room for this cottage garden classic that’s as popular with bees as it is with gardenersA cottage garden classic that livens up the spring garden with its sprays of flowers “fluttering unconcernedly in the bitter winds of March”, as Margery Fish once wrote. Its pink, blue or white blooms offer valuable pollen and nectar to hungry bees, while the hairy, silver-patterned leaves are useful for brightening shady spots. Continue reading...
  
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• I can see for miles and miles: the artists swapping city for country

  18-03-2017 12:00
  
  From a former Martello tower to a plaster workshop, three designers have left the city behind to create their dream homes Industrial designer Jackson first came across his future home nearly 20 years ago, while out walking with friends. One of three Martello towers on a stretch of Suffolk coast near the villages of Bawdsey and Alderton, it had been derelict for 150 years. Both Jackson’s brother and mother had houses locally, as did friends, so he made some inquiries. He discovered that two
  
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• Ask Alys Fowler: why are there holes in the rhizomes of my bearded iris?

  18-03-2017 12:00
  
  Our gardening expert has the answerThe rhizomes of my bearded iris are pitted with small holes, and last summer I got only three blooms from the whole bed. Should I throw them away – and can I plant fresh ones in the same spot?
  The holes could be wireworm, but usually the rhizome goes mushy and rots quickly. You can easily check: leave a potato by the rhizome for a couple of days. To a wireworm, a potato is far tastier than an iris, so if they are present, you’ll find them
  
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• The best Jewish restaurants in Berlin

  18-03-2017 11:00
  
  Nosh Berlin, which starts on 19 March, is the city’s first Jewish food week, with dishes and events from Jewish communities worldwide. Its founders share their top eats in the cityFrom shakshuka to sabich sandwiches, Berlin is home to a flourishing Jewish food scene. Young Israelis have been flocking to Berlin, drawn, like so many other young people, to its thriving arts scene. As a result, new bars and restaurants such as Kanaan in Prenzlauer Berg, a vegan-vegetarian joint run by a Palest
  
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• Tell us about working in the restaurant industry

  18-03-2017 11:00
  
  Stolen tips, bullying, drug use at work – chefs and maître d’s have lifted the lid on life in top restaurants. Now we’d like to hear from you
  If you work in the restaurant industry you may be no stranger to stories of stolen tips, long hours, drug use, intimidation, violence and sexual harassment in kitchens and even front of house. You may have spent years in your “dream job” experiencing these things and more.Related: ‘The manager was selling coke to s
  
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• Yotam Ottolenghi’s recipes for fresh curry leaves

  18-03-2017 10:30
  
  Fragrant and fabulous: once you’ve cooked with fresh curry leaves, you’ll never look backWhenever I see a big bunch of fresh curry leaves, I buy them. If they’re not on your supermarket shelves (they’re sometimes there, but often not), you’ll find them in most Indian or south-east Asian grocers. They freeze well, so don’t worry about buying too many, not least because most recipes involving fresh leaves tend to ask for quite a lot of them. Despite the associat
  
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• ‘I want my late husband’s children’: the fight for posthumous conception

  18-03-2017 10:30
  
  Three widows have been brought together through their battle for the right to have their partners’ children. But should it be a decision for the courts? Beneath the gloomy gothic archways of the Royal Courts of Justice’s court 33, Samantha Jefferies is fighting the government for the right to have her husband’s baby. Barristers for both sides have made their case and Judge Sir James Munby, president of the family division of the high court, has given her the chance to have the
  
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• What I’m really thinking: the adult bed-wetter

  18-03-2017 10:00
  
  No one will ever want to share a bed with me. No one will love meI always wait until everyone has left our student house to tiptoe to the shower. You probably wonder why I wake up so early or late. Or why I do the laundry so often, and never invite anyone into my room. It is because I live in shame.I have wet my bed every single night for the past 23 years. I use adult diapers, but sometimes even those are not enough to keep everything dry. When I wash, I use different shower gels each time, bec
  
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• ‘The manager was selling coke to staff’: the truth about top restaurants

  18-03-2017 10:00
  
  Stolen tips, long hours, diminishing pay: the restaurant business has found itself in hot water lately. That’s just the half of it, reveal chefs, waiters and maître d’sDo you work in the industry? Share your stories anonymouslyThings that are glorified in the hospitality industry: sleep-deprivation, tempers, drugs, projectiles in kitchens (especially sharp ones), hedonism, asceticism, camaraderie, martial law, all broadly clustered under the umbrella idea that perfectionism mak
  
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• ‘Improvising is what leads to discovery’ | Kitchen encounters

  18-03-2017 10:00
  
  The owner of Otter Farm, Mark Diacono, says we need to make mistakes when cooking. But he won’t be making any this weekend as he takes over Cook’s Instagram account. Follow us: @guardian_cook My kitchen is … big, light and brand new. We recently built our house, so it was the chance to design it from scratch. I never thought I’d go for the modern, clean, German aesthetic, but I did: it’s all horizontal, clean lines with no handles – I’m not a visually f
  
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• Identity is the issue of our age: so why can’t we talk more honestly about trans women?

  18-03-2017 09:59
  
  As Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie said, acknowledging differences and being supportive are not mutually exclusiveShould you be struggling with a gift idea for that special person in your life, here’s a suggestion: how about a home DNA kit? These are all the rage in America, I recently read in the New York Times, with 3m sold by ancestry.com alone in the past five years. At last, Americans can find out how Irish they actually are.On the one hand, this makes sense: identity is the hot issue of our
  
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• The hippy is back: not so cool if you remember it the first time round

  18-03-2017 09:30
  
  From womb workshops to naked retreats, the Instagram generation are embracing hippy 2.0. But is it the real deal?• Were you raised by hippies? Tell us about your experiences It’s a sunny afternoon and I’m sitting cross-legged with my eyes closed, introducing myself to my womb. “Hello, womb,” I say, inwardly, and wait for a reply. Seven other women are in a circle with me, doing the same as a Spotify playlist of chimey chillout music plays in the background and incens
  
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• Clive James: ‘Idris Elba is the most kingly British star since Richard Burton’

  18-03-2017 09:00
  
  To collect an actor’s performances is still one of the best reasons for continuing the long search into infinityAs a Denzel Washington fan, I try to see every movie he has made. When I was still flying, I would watch a Denzel movie two or three times on the trot, just to study the way he timed a sardonic smile – even today, I time a sardonic smile at my granddaughter’s dog. But those of us who would once haunt the DVD racks to pick up a Denzel movie must reconcile our
  
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• Beauty: your hair regime doesn’t have to be hard work

  18-03-2017 09:00
  
  Where hair’s concerned, my look (if you can even call it that) is very easy to achieve After more than two decades in the industry, I’m confident in my knowledge of skincare, makeup and fragrance, but haircare comes less naturally. I approach styling with insatiable curiosity and unfailingly grill the many hair experts I work with, eager to share whichever advice I find useful.Perhaps aware of my relative ineptitude with all matters follicular, readers often ask how I style my own ha
  
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• Modern tribes: the glamper

  18-03-2017 08:59
  
  I spoke to them about the owls: nothing they can do, apparently, even though it’s not cheap Easter plans? We’re camping again, just desperate to breathe some fresh air, get away from everything. Well, I say camping, they supply the tents, well, not exactly a tent, if you can picture a large yurt. We did that once, no shower or loo, can you believe, the kids were horrified, though they adore the country, playing in the woods, building dens, surrounded by nature. Then we tried an ecopo
  
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• Chechnya's first daughter shows off fashion collection

  18-03-2017 08:58
  
  MOSCOW (Reuters) - In a former czar's palace in Moscow, models display a fashion collection designed by the 18-year-old daughter of Ramzan Kadyrov, leader of Russia's mainly Muslim region of Chechnya.
  
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• What links Bass, Society, Tuamotu, Gambier, Marquesas and Austral? The Weekend quiz

  18-03-2017 08:00
  
  From Le Grand K to the Spirit of Troy, test your knowledge with the Weekend quiz1 Whose final message was, “Come on. Big village. Be quick. Bring packs”?
  2 What is the ninth largest object in the solar system?
  3 Kept in a French vault, what is Le Grand K?
  4 Which musical couple are buried at Wahnfried?
  5 What pet is Carassius auratus?
  6 Which order was suppressed in 1312 by Pope Clement V?
  7 The Spirit of Troy is the marching band of which institution?
  8 In a Dostoevsky novel, who is
  
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• Should I get power of attorney over my mum’s finances?

  18-03-2017 08:00
  
  Dad recently died and she isn’t great with moneyEvery 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: ‘Running on roads when you could be fell running is a wasted opportunity’

  18-03-2017 08:00
  
  John Aggleton, 61, has suffered fewer injuries since he started fell runningI love running, but I loathe running on roads: it’s boring, repetitive, jarring and just hurts. I don’t understand why anyone would do it. I’ve been a bird-watcher all my life, and I’m passionate about being out in the open, looking around, listening: running on roads with your earphones in, when you could be going up and down hills or, better still, mountains, seems like a wasted opportunity.I&rs
  
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• It's blooming spring! 22 great UK walks

  18-03-2017 08:00
  
  Shake off the winter blues and enjoy longer, warmer days on one of these great country walks – all with pub stops – chosen by top British nature writersLength: 5 miles
  Time: 2 hours
  Start/finish: Nettlecombe (OS Explorer 117)
  Grade: Moderate
  Refuel: The Marquis of Lorne
  Picnic spot: Eggardon Hill ramparts Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Corrupt firms can make troublemakers’ lives intolerable’ – our work expert responds

  18-03-2017 07:59
  
  Our careers expert – and you the readers – help someone dismayed by ‘jobs for the boys’, and a film-maker who can’t get a jobMy boyfriend graduated with a BA in film from a good university in 2009. Since then he has tried to follow his ambition of being a freelance camera operator, but in a sector where budgets are squeezed he hasn’t been able to find regular work that will pay the bills.  Continue reading...
  
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• On our first date, Monica the vulture pokes her beak hard into Helen’s history

  18-03-2017 07:45
  
  If dating profiles are like Philip Pullman’s dæmons, I am coming to realise that mine is still only half-formedI gaze across the dining table into my date’s dark, beady eyes, trying to ignore the vulture perched on her shoulder as it picks over my wife’s life and, more horribly, her death.“How long did she battle against the big C before she died?” asks Monica, who is certainly attractive, but increasingly under my disillusioned gaze resembles her mangy feathe
  
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• Family life: At Golden Sands with cousins, Sing Something Simple, and Auntie’s coleslaw sandwiches

  18-03-2017 07:45
  
  Readers’ favourite photographs, songs and recipesThe term family holiday conjures the “package tour ad” image of mum, dad and 2.4 kids holding hands on a Mediterranean beach, but my family holidays when I was a kid were an altogether larger affair. Continue reading...
  
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• A letter to … The man who insulted my brother, who has cerebral palsy

  18-03-2017 07:45
  
  The letter you always wanted to write‘Do you think he’s had enough?” you scoffed at your friend as my brother, a single pint down, made his long and laborious journey to the toilet. “Fucking Gollum!”Judging by the speed at which you became silent when my friend asked you to repeat yourself, you knew that the awkward staggering limp and the jarring, slurred speech had nothing to do with alcohol intake. Continue reading...
  
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• Don't stick your head in the sand – how to prepare for old age

  18-03-2017 07:30
  
  As we live longer, the numbers of people needing care is also soaring. So what help can those trying to access a creaking, cash-starved system expect?When I was 16, I spent two months in Italy with my maternal grandparents – then both 88. My grandmother had fallen over some months previously and was bedridden, but my grandfather was still active, physically and mentally; we would regularly play Scopa – an Italian card game – together. His memory rendered him unbeatable.The fami
  
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• Laurie Frankel: We adopted by choice not necessity

  18-03-2017 07:15
  
  When Laurie Frankel and her husband decided to have a child, they also decided to adopt – out of choice for, as far as they know, she is perfectly capable of having a child. It’s a decision she wishes more people would makeMy grandmother liked to gamble. We would go to Atlantic City sometimes and sit together at the blackjack tables while she smoked and patiently explained strategy to me. It was fun to be doing something she enjoyed, fun to go out to dinner and eat the pickled tomato
  
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• Why I love… Drew Barrymore

  18-03-2017 07:00
  
  Her whole vibe is ‘aggressively gentle hippy’ with an edge In that frantic final stretch between finishing my degree and waiting for the sweet release of summer, I chose to combat my stress by watching a childhood classic, 1982’s ET. My howls of anguish brought concerned housemates to my room, where I pointed at the screen and gasped, “It’s Gertie. She’s just so cute!” The film’s youngest character was played by cherubic child actor Drew Barry
  
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• Three simple bread recipes to bake at home | Jordan Bourke

  18-03-2017 07:00
  
  Three easy breads to make at home – a small multigrain, a spelt pitta and a gluten-free sandwich slicer – from chef Jordan Bourke’s new book Healthy BakingFlour, water, salt and yeast; four simple ingredients that combine to make real bread. It has sustained civilisations around the world for millennia, and yet it took just over 50 years to transform from the humble, home-cooked loaf of yore to the mass‑produced, permanently soft, supermarket staple of today.Preservatives
  
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• ‘My mum always told me I was white, like her. Now I know the truth’

  18-03-2017 07:00
  
  As a child in a white Anglo-Irish family, Georgina Lawton’s curiosity about her dark skin colour was constantly brushed aside. Only when her father died did the truth surfaceYou might not think it to look at me, but my upbringing was a very Anglo-Irish affair. I grew up on the outskirts of London with my blue-eyed younger brother, British father and Irish mother. Many happy weeks of the school holidays were spent in Ireland and I was educated at a Catholic school in Surrey. We ate roast be
  
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• Blind date: ‘I mistook a waiter for my date’

  18-03-2017 06:59
  
  Pádraic, 26, trainee architect, meets Josh, 23, charity campaigns officerWhat were you hoping for?
  An ageing billionaire with no next of kin.Continue reading...
  
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• Eat, Sleep, Repeat: The 7 Celebrity-Chef Restaurants Dominating New York’s Hotel Scene

  18-03-2017 03:00
  
  From Colicchio to Carmellini, celebrity chefs are settling in at New York’s hottest new hotels… Gina Hamadey
  
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• Have mask, will travel

  18-03-2017 01:01 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  For the last few weeks, radio call-in shows and online comments sections have been inundated with puckheads offering their take on the state of the Winnipeg Jets’ goaltending.With Ondrej Pavelec on the shelf with a wonky knee, and with backup Michael Hutchinson sporting a paltry .266
  
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• This St. Patrick’s Day, Buy an Irish Estate Owned by the Guinness Family

  18-03-2017 01:00
  
  Set on 5,000 acres in County Wicklow, the estate includes a Gothic mansion, a guest house, and several cottages…Rebekah Bell
  
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• Quick crossword No 14,621

  18-03-2017 01:00
  
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• Couple quits finance, wins Brazil's top coffee prize

  18-03-2017 00:54
  
  SAO PAULO (Reuters) - It could be a Hollywood screenplay. Juliana Armelin and her husband Paulo Siqueira decided to radically change their lives in 2010, quitting jobs in Sao Paulo's financial sector...
  
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