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• Orlebar Brown Founder’s Packing Tips for Transitioning from the Beach to the Bar

  22-04-2017 22:00
  
  Menswear expert Adam Brown’s strategy for packing clothes to carry you from the beach to the bar… Phoebe Neuman
  
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• An Environmentalist’s Dream Kitchen is Open to the Public in New York City

  22-04-2017 20:00
  
  A Boffi-outfitted teaching kitchen at the new Project Farmhouse is serving up stylish sustainability to the community…Anush Benliyan
  
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• 10 Naturally Remarkable Jewels for Earth Day

  22-04-2017 19:00
  
  From recycled fossils to fantastic florals, these are some of the coolest designs on the planet… Carolyn Meers
  
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• Icelandic language at risk; robots, computers can't grasp it

  22-04-2017 18:44 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  REYKJAVIK, Iceland - When an Icelander arrives at an office building and sees "Solarfri" posted, they need no further explanation for the empty premises: The word means "when staff get an unexpected afternoon off to enjoy good weather."The people of this rugged North Atlantic island settled by...
  
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• Can This Luxurious Nile Cruise Ship Revive Egypt’s Tourism Industry?

  22-04-2017 18:00
  
  A new cruise ship is bringing luxury to the Nile—and travelers back to Egypt…Tim Neville
  
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• Six Visionary Electric Vehicles Designed with Earth Day in Mind

  22-04-2017 16:00
  
  Jaguar and Bentley are among the marques charging ahead on all-electric cars and concepts…Compiled by Viju Mathew
  
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• Sustainable Residences That Make Every Day Feel Like Earth Day

  22-04-2017 14:00
  
  From Belize to Grand Cayman, these eco-friendly properties put the planet first…Rebekah Bell
  
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• Wright’s Food Emporium, Llanarthney, Carmarthenshire: review

  22-04-2017 12:00
  
  This pub/cafe/deli on the edge of the Brecon Beacons made a name for itself with its excellent food and laid-back charm. Now it’s added stylish accommodation ‘over the shop’ so diners can crash out after dinnerYou always want a good pub within walking distance of a holiday let. So a cottage that shares a building with a great pub/cafe/deli on the edge of the Brecon Beacons was an appealing prospect. Food writer and broadcaster Simon Wright and family took over the former Golden
  
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• Ask Alys: why did my pyracantha fail to produce berries?

  22-04-2017 12:00
  
  Our gardening expert Alys Fowler has the answerFor the first time in 40 years, my two pyracantha bushes have produced no berries. Is there a reason for this? Can it be corrected?
  Did you prune them? A hard pruning will mean few flowers the following year, because pyracantha, aka firethorn, flower on last year’s growth. If you cut them back hard at the wrong time you can unwittingly remove all the flower buds.If you haven’t been pruning them, I can only think that
  
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• 'Why not share the spotlight?' The rise of the peacock groom

  22-04-2017 11:00
  
  More and more men are looking for an outfit that will stand out on their wedding day. How do you get it right?What the hell am I going to wear? It’s a question I ask myself, with varying degrees of urgency, on a daily basis. To date I’ve always managed to provide an answer. Some days, granted, with considerably more sartorial success than others, but the morning has not yet come where I have fled the house in nothing but mismatched socks.I’m starting to worry that the day may b
  
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• After the earthquake: Umbria's culinary magic is winning back visitors

  22-04-2017 11:00
  
  Two powerful earthquakes laid waste to parts of central Italy last year, but resilient producers in fabulously foodie – and beautiful – south-east Umbria are determined to look forward, not back
  ‘Would you like to meet the pigs?” said Giuseppe Fausti. It seemed a strange idea, popping in on friends and relations of the animals that had just provided a wonderful lunch of chewy salami and differently flavoured summer and winter prosciuttos. But Giuseppe’s must be amon
  
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• Yotam Ottolenghi’s spring salad recipes

  22-04-2017 10:00
  
  After the long winter, it’s time to reawaken those tastebuds with sharp, zingy salads that make the most of the new season’s bootyI’ m usually woken by the sound of my children announcing that the day has begun, but at this time of year the dawn chorus starts to get in there first. The gap between nature’s chorus and nurture’s is brief but so very blissful, though I usually hide under the duvet throughout both.This cusp between the seasons brings with it a rethinkin
  
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• What I’m really thinking: the school-trip teacher

  22-04-2017 10:00
  
  Sometimes I think I have performed a kind of miracle, being a parent to so manyWhen you wave off your child on her week away, don’t wish me a nice holiday. I’ve been planning every detail of this trip for months, with a mixture of dread and resignation. For the week, I’ll be your child’s parent. I’ll carry forms detailing what she can and can’t eat, her medical history, her travel sickness pills and her EpiPen in my backpack every minute of every day. In my he
  
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• Modern tribes: the cat guy

  22-04-2017 09:00
  
  These scratches? Oh just Tiddles going off on one, they’ll soon heal, I think he was hungryDo you like cats? C’mon, everyone likes cats, you seem like a lovely sensitive person, I promise you’d love Tiddles. Look here’s him on my shoulder, here’s me tickling his tummy, here’s him with a dead baby bluetit, it’s a wildlife morgue, my kitchen, since Tiddles arrived, he’s a real fighter, terrorises the entire neighbourhood, look here’s
  
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• Beauty: the best new men’s fragrances | Sali Hughes

  22-04-2017 09:00
  
  At this time of year, heavy, musky, dirty concoctions can feel a bit obtrusive It often falls on me to choose fragrances for the husbands, fathers and sons of the women in my life, and it’s a task I relish. I’m partial to wearing a masculine scent myself, and am always mustard-keen to sniff out what’s new and interesting. I use that last word pointedly, because men’s perfume can often be a crashing bore. For at least two decades, mainstream brands seemed to peddle the sam
  
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• What links a child with a toy hand grenade, identical twins, a Jewish giant and a teenage couple? The Weekend quiz

  22-04-2017 08:00
  
  From the Audi man to an occultist, test your knowledge with the Weekend quiz1 In evolutionary terms, what was Luca?
  2 Why was Gerhard Schrôder nicknamed the “Audi man”?
  3 Which black comedy features the homicidal Brewster family?
  4 The 1933 Blaine Act initiated the end of what?
  5 Kipling’s poem Recessional was written for what occasion?
  6 Whose European Cup finals record is played three, lost three?
  7 The Annales school was a movement in which discipline?
  8 Which occultis
  
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• My workout: ‘Passions run high in water polo’

  22-04-2017 08:00
  
  Jack Pickford, 20, on why he loves the fast-paced water sport
  My twin, Peter, and I joined Watford swimming club when we were seven or eight. The water polo club used to train directly after our swimming sessions, so one day we stayed behind and joined in. It was so varied and dynamic, and I was immediately drawn to the team nature of the sport, as opposed to just repetitively swimming lengths. Ten years on, Peter has been selected for the England squad, and I’m president of the University
  
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• ‘It’s my wife’s pregnancy, not mine, but it is our baby’

  22-04-2017 08:00
  
  When my wife and I decided to have a child that she would carry, I thought being a woman, in a same-sex couple, would help me empathise. I was wrongWatching one’s beloved go through pregnancy can be a bizarre and bewildering experience. It is also one that I assumed might be easy for me because we are the same sex.From the day we met, almost nine years ago, Bella was adamant that she wanted a child – and that she wanted to carry it. She loved the idea of pregnancy with the same vehem
  
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• ‘Invite a colleague to join you for a drink after work’ – our work expert responds

  22-04-2017 08:00
  
  Our careers expert – and you the readers – help a shy employee make friends at work and a designer restart their publishing career
  I fear this will sound trivial, but here goes. At work – usually pretty typical office jobs where my role has been independent, despite being part of a section or team – I am a different person.
  I am quiet because I loathe starting small talk – it makes me anxious and shy, and it even seems rude if I don’t know the person I try to
  
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• 10 of Canada's best lesser-known national parks

  22-04-2017 08:00
  
  To mark its 150th anniversary, Canada is offering free entry to its stunning national parks. But which to pick? We select 10 lesser-known wildernessesCanada has vast swathes of unspoiled nature, from coasts to mountains to tundra and frozen Arctic deserts. While some of these spectacular landscapes are in legendary national parks, such as the Rocky Mountains’ Banff and Jasper, the Pacific coast’s Gwaii Haanas and the remote whitewater paddling heaven of the Northwest Territories&rsqu
  
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• Family life: My parents setting off on honeymoon, April 5th by Talk Talk and Maki’s tempura udon, British style

  22-04-2017 07:54
  
  Readers’ favourite photographs, songs and recipesThis photograph speaks to me of love and distance. It shows my parents, Arthur and Rosa Shirley, starting on the journey of their life together – leaving for their honeymoon in August 1933 from my paternal grandmother, Alice Kate’s, house in Westcliff-on-Sea (that’s her and her husband at the gate). Continue reading...
  
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• How to survive the death of a loved one

  22-04-2017 07:45
  
  After Helen died, writing this column helped me through my grief. In this, my final offering, I’d like to help others by sharing what I’ve learned“I open at the close,” says the message hidden in the Golden Snitch, revealed only as the threads of Harry’s story are woven together in the final Harry Potter book. Helen’s great love of these stories makes it an inspiring maxim for this, my final Widower of the Parish column.My writing has been cathartic and a 
  
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• A letter to … my transgender husband: why did it have to be all about you?

  22-04-2017 07:44
  
  The letter you always wanted to writeWhen you first told me, you were upset by my reaction – or rather, I think you were upset that I didn’t have a reaction, as if you expected me to process it all in an instant. How could I? You had told me something that shook the foundations of our marriage: the man I loved didn’t exist, you said, and the woman you had found inside yourself hated that man.I’m glad you figured it out, and started down this path. I have always wanted the
  
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• The highs and lows of being Lois

  22-04-2017 07:41 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  Lois Howard, Lois Kowalski and Lois Kruse are all part of an exclusive club. Every year for the past 20, they meet on the last Saturday of April for their annual lunch.They are part of the Manitoba Lois Club, which literally is just that — a club for Loises. A group of women connected...
  
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• I soiled my shorts

  22-04-2017 07:39 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  There was a definite glint of suspicion in my wife’s eyes when she confronted me at the back door.There I was, with a spade clutched tightly in one of my hands, both of which were lightly coated in mud.“What the (bad word) have you been doing?” my wife, She Who Must Not Be
  
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• How to raise a rock star, by Dave Grohl's mum

  22-04-2017 07:30
  
  From Nirvana to Foo Fighters, Virginia Grohl knows what it’s like to be the mother of a rock star. Now she’s written a book comparing notes with other rock mothers including Pharrell Williams’ and Michael Stipe’sWhat is it like to be the mum of a rock star? Is the strongest feeling pride at seeing your child adored by a delirious crowd? Or anxiety surrounding the sex and drugs that go along with the rock’n’roll? Does renown and money in the end salve the disap
  
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• My daughter’s death made me do something terrible on Facebook

  22-04-2017 07:15
  
  Overcome with grief when her 19-year-old daughter died, Vanessa Nicolson sent a message to her daughter’s boyfriend that she regretted immediately. Eight years later, she invited him round to explainHow to sum up my 19-year-old daughter, Rosa? A “free spirit”, a “one-off”, “a character”, “she lit up a room”. These were the phrases most frequently used in remembering her after she drowned, following a seizure while she swam on a warm July
  
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• Why I love… Prince

  22-04-2017 07:00
  
  He always appeared aware of how unique he was; he knew he was special and he loved itDeath, especially when compounded by shock, is a thing that forces wild reactions. There is no predicting how it will affect us, especially when it’s complicated by fame and art. At that point, mourning suddenly becomes communal, and you might find yourself crying in public, as I did when I heard about Prince’s death. It’s been one year. I miss him still.Prince was, for me, one of the
  
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• Tim Dowling: the house is for sale, so why are we spending money on the garden?

  22-04-2017 07:00
  
  It feels so recklessly profligate that I’m disappointed when the bill comes to only £60It is Friday evening. An estate agent has just left, having brought some people round for a second viewing, and my wife is staring out of the back window. “We should go to that garden centre tomorrow,” she says. “We need a few things.”“Gardening?” I say. “I’m not gardening.” Continue reading...
  
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• Step away from the parenting books – and start worrying and doubting yourself instead

  22-04-2017 07:00
  
  Chinese tiger mothers get results, French parents teach manners and the Finns espouse self-reliance. British parents? We read books on how we’re going wrong …How are you parenting this month? Maybe you are following the Finns, encouraging your children to learn through joyful, unstructured play and boundless independence. That’s the advice from Helsinki-based American teacher Timothy Walker, whose book Teach Like Finland holds out the glittering prize of an eight-year-old
  
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• Four recipes to get your kids eating more veg and less sugar | Cooking with kids

  22-04-2017 07:00
  
  We asked four writers to cook a working week’s worth of healthy breakfasts, packed lunches, snacks and dinners for the toughest of critics: their own children. Here are their verdicts ...Five days of starting the day on vegetables may be too much to ask of any child – unless it’s pumpkin waffles, says Phil Daoust Continue reading...
  
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• Blind date: ‘He probably found me lovely’

  22-04-2017 07:00
  
  Colin, 29, political adviser, meets James, 28, radio and TV presenterWhat were you hoping for?
  Someone happy to order a second bottle of wine.Continue reading...
  
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• Whisky of the Week: Glenmorangie Bacalta

  22-04-2017 05:00
  
  This limited edition from the legendary distillery is destined to become a collector’s item…Dan Dunn
  
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• Watch of the Week: The HYT H0 Silver

  22-04-2017 02:00
  
  Photo by Justin Mastine-Frost
  HYT hands over their latest mechanical gem with fluid hour indication for us to take a closer look…Justin Mastine-Frost
  
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• Lively, Chastain, Chelsea Clinton honored for philanthropic work

  22-04-2017 01:41
  
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hollywood actresses Blake Lively and Jessica Chastain were among the six women honored on Friday for their philanthropic efforts with organizations helping women and children.
  
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• Four Seasons Is Building Magical Homes at Disney World—Here’s an Inside Look

  22-04-2017 01:11
  
  Priced from $5 million, the whole-ownership, single-family homes give owners the rare opportunity to live at Walt Disney World Resort…Rebekah Bell
  
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• Quick crossword No 14,651

  22-04-2017 01:00
  
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  22-04-2017 01:00
  
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• 10 Stellar Resorts Perfect for Stargazing

  22-04-2017 01:00
  
  These remote resorts are perfectly positioned for taking in the stellar views…Jennifer Ashton Ryan
  
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