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• Why llamas are the new unicorns (just don’t mention the spitting)

  05-11-2017 17:00
  From jumpers and cushions to shower curtains and weddings, the South American camelid is this season’s must-have animal adornment
  November can be a chilly, soul-sapping time. Not only is it dark at 5pm, but, most importantly, you have no idea what the next whimsical animal trend is. What on earth are you going to festoon your cushions with?Fret no more – it’s llamas. Yes, it’s (finally) time to say goodbye to ubiquitous unicorns – one-horned, prancing, glittery, rai
  
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• A pinball league of their own

  05-11-2017 16:38 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Robin Lassonde is the top-ranked female pinball player in the world. Yet at a tournament this summer, a man approached her during a break and asked whether she was playing ......
  
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• Naomi Campbell: ‘People try to use your past to blackmail you. I won’t allow it’

  05-11-2017 15:00
  Late and distracted by her phone, the model soon transforms from hauteur to warmth. She discusses racism, Vogue, stereotypes of black women and how, at 47, she’s finally become comfortable in her own skinAt a big and ritzy Halloween party in New York two Saturdays ago, a lot of highly famous people dressed up as other highly famous people. Naomi Campbell, however, went as herself. Why deign to masquerade as some lesser being when you are already an internationally acknowledged apogee of fa
  
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• Nantucket cranberries – painting the Massachusetts island red

  05-11-2017 13:30
  It wouldn’t be Thanksgiving without cranberries but the fruit was revered by Native Americans before the founding fathers arrived. The autumn harvest still turns the fields of Nantucket a glorious scarletFor the past 160 years every autumn, the diminutive island of Nantucket has turned scarlet, thanks to the cranberry harvest. The fields are deliberately flooded and the submerged vines are beaten to detach the ripe, red berries, which then float to the surface.This tart, wild, native berry
  
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• Violence against front-line hospital staff on rise, more protection needed: union

  05-11-2017 13:29 via winnipegfreepress.com
  TORONTO - As a 42-year nursing veteran of Ontario's hospital system, Linda Clayborne is no stranger to what's become a growing phenomenon — escalating incidents of violence perpetrated by patients ......
  
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• Wild at heart: how one woman and her husband live out in the woods

  05-11-2017 10:00
  For seven years, Miriam Lancewood and her husband Peter have lived a nomadic life – she is the hunter and he is the cook. Now they’re walking across Europe to Turkey, with a tent and little else. Stefanie Marsh meets them to hear whyMiriam Lancewood has been living off grid, in the wild, for seven years now and she can still pinpoint the exact moment she knew she had truly broken with social norms. “It was when the idea was born to wash my hair with urine,” she recalls.Sh
  
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• Nigel Slater’s Bonfire Night baked sausage and beetroot recipes

  05-11-2017 09:00
  If ever there’s a time for comfort food, it’s 5 November. Serve delicious beetroot, sausages and, of course, baked potatoes
  It is 5 November, Bonfire Night. A chance to light up the sky with shooting stars of pink and gold, dance around the flames and to warm all-comers with a pot of fat sausages and beans from the oven. Even if your idea of commemorating the failure of the Gunpowder Plot runs to little more than writing your name in the night air with a sparkler, generous amounts of
  
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• Three great warming wines for Bonfire night

  05-11-2017 07:00
  Guy Fawkes Night is the time to sip something spicy and succulent
  Taste the Difference Saint-Chinian Syrah-Grenache 2015 (£9, Sainsbury’s) For me, Guy Fawkes Night is when autumn really starts to segue into winter, an occasion for sipping warming red wine, glass in gloved hand, around the bonfire. Sainsbury’s has a wine that fits this mood perfectly – and which would also match well with a classic Sunday roast of lamb or beef. From the Saint-Chinian district of the Langue
  
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• The pop-up crafts shop helping war-torn communities

  05-11-2017 07:00
  A small shop selling work from Afghanistan and elsewhere is helping people from conflict zones make a living
  From a small corner window display on London’s Baker Street, Edmund le Brun and Flore de Taisne are trying to help the victims of war. Their pop-up shop, Ishkar, which is also online, sells crafts from conflict zones. Among the items on display are gorgeous hand-blown glasses in green, lapis lazuli blue and turquoise, intricate kilim rugs, fine-woven camel hair shawls, earrings and
  
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• The night I introduced Jean-Michel Basquiat to the world

  05-11-2017 07:00
  It’s April 1978, a warehouse party in New York, and a street guy wants to do some graffitiWe were in the middle of a party in my New York loft when this forlorn, waifish street guy with Mohawk hair came up to me and said, “I am SAMO and I would like to do some graffiti.” I’d never seen him before but he had this little spark in his eye so I handed him a can of spray paint said, “Do it!” And for the first time the world was introduced to Jean-Michel Basquiat.I
  
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• The Gourmand magazine: at the cutting edge

  05-11-2017 07:00
  Mixing cuisine, art and snails, this magazine for gourmets has taken food writing to some astonishing new places. Killian Fox meets the duo behind it
  Earlier this year, as David Lane and Marina Tweed were putting together an issue of their biannual food magazine The Gourmand, they were pitched an idea involving snails. The premise, dreamed up by Dutch art photographers Blommers & Schumm, was simple: snails like climbing things. The resulting photo story shows edible gastropods inching to the
  
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• Nostalgia for the 90s and Kate Moss throw-outs: what to buy this week

  05-11-2017 07:00
  A reissue of REM’s Automatic for the People, supermodels’ flea market, Boden’s second store and guilt-free cosmetics… These are some of the things we love this week It’s 25 years since REM released Automatic for the People. That’s 25 years since you slow danced to Everybody Hurts at a disco, and cried under the buffet table. To celebrate, the band have reissued it with a wealth of previously unreleased material along with a book and companion Blu-ray. Automat
  
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• Marvellous microgreens

  05-11-2017 07:00
  Fast and easy to grow, these mini vegetables offer a wide range of amazing flavoursEven as the outdoor veg garden starts to wind down, there are still plenty of crops you can start sowing right through the winter if you turn your food-growing ambitions indoors.I love the taste of Thai basil, whose liquorice-scented warmth is essential to Southeast Asian foods Continue reading...
  
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• I have a serious crush on my teacher – should I tell her? | Dear Mariella

  05-11-2017 07:00
  Having strong feelings towards an inspirational teacher is very normal but don’t confuse it for romantic passion, says Mariella FrostrupThe dilemma I’m a 16-year-old student harbouring ardent feelings for a teacher. She’s an absolutely wonderful (in my view, angelic) human being, who seems utterly devoted to what she does and is terribly cordial to us students. It is out of awe for her personality, and gratitude for how she’s made a mark in my life, that I feel so attache
  
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• Fishers in the City, Edinburgh: ‘It needs a friendly whack’ – restaurant review | Jay Rayner

  05-11-2017 07:00
  A few enduring niggles overshadow great cooking and good service at this Edinburgh seafood restaurant, says Jay RaynerFishers In the City, 58 Thistle Street, Edinburgh EH2 1EN (0131 225 5109). Meal for two, including drinks and service: £100I am many things: tall, thick of waist and big haired. One gust of wind and I can end up looking like an unmade bed. Even without the wind, I may still look like that saggy sofa you can’t be bothered to throw out because of all the admin. I have n
  
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• Christmas sandwiches, our newest Yuletide tradition

  05-11-2017 07:00
  From bitter to oversweet, and slathered in cranberry sauce, festive sandwiches are in the shops now. Eva Wiseman tries the lot, so you don’t have to…You can’t stop time, people. The wheel is turning and it will continue to turn, autumn becoming winter, bodies becoming dust, until Christmas is here and with it that clove-scented reminder that another year is almost over and death comes for all.Is this why we choose to lean on tradition, on comforts that mean even as time passes
  
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• Brain game: how we see colour – in fireworks and on screens | Daniel Glaser

  05-11-2017 07:00
  Daniel Glaser explains the difference between the chemical and digital technologies used to represent colourFireworks may have been invented in 7th century China but we are still trying to improve the chemical technology behind them. Unlike colour representation in digital technology, fireworks work on the eye and hence brain in an entirely different way.Pyrotechnicians use chemicals to make the colours: strontium carbonate (red), barium chloride (green) and sodium nitrate (yellow). Yet our visu
  
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• Art and soul: how sparking your creativity helps you stay well | Lydia Ruffles

  05-11-2017 07:00
  Linking creativity to madness is a myth. But making things is good for everyone’s wellbeing, says Lydia RufflesMost of us admire creativity. Some of us also think that creative people are somehow different – obsessive, gifted, tortured in some way – a stereotype that is often perpetuated by our culture. Letting go of these ideas could allow more people to access the wellbeing benefits of creative activities, while also dispensing with a damaging mental-health myth.There is a pe
  
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• Great Australian cookbook – chilli mud crab, prawn rolls and oyster pies recipes

  05-11-2017 02:33
  The new cookbook aims to take a snapshot of Australia and the food we love to eat – and what could be more Australian than fresh seafood? Are we what we eat? The publishers behind the Great Australian cookbook (Echo, $50) wanted to take a snapshot of the country and the food Australians love to eat, by asking 100 cooks, chefs, bakers and other foodies to share their favourite family recipes.Continue reading...
  
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• One step beyond organic or free-range: Dutch farmer’s chickens lay carbon-neutral eggs

  05-11-2017 01:05
  Poultry owner claims his new approach has the highest welfare standards and lowest cost to environmentThere’s the much-criticised battery hen egg, and then the pricier organic and free-range varieties. But for the truly ethically committed, how about the carbon-neutral egg, laid in what has been billed as the world’s most environmentally friendly farm?Dutch stores are now selling so-called “Kipster eggs” laid at a shiny new farm near the south-eastern city of Venray. &ldq
  
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• Cover up: 50 of the best men's jackets

  05-11-2017 00:50
  From quilted and performance styles to corduroy and worker’s jackets, lift your outerwear game this autumn Continue reading...
  
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• Reasons to... go boardroom – in pictures

  05-11-2017 00:45
  Looking like you’re about to chair the AGM is this season’s key look. Put on a trouser suit and you instantly have an air of authority. Accessorise with minimalist jewellery and 80s-style spike heels to stop boardroom looking boring Continue reading...
  
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