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• Shoppers out seeking deals, though sales have crept earlier

  25-11-2017 23:18 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Parking lots were full and shopping bags were plentiful in some places Saturday as holiday gift-seekers were out looking for bargains, even as the competition among retailers to offer earlier ......
  
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• A soothing steamed treacle dumpling recipe

  25-11-2017 11:00
  Rich and unctuous, Granny’s treacle dumpling was just the thing on a bitterly cold day in auld DundeeTreacle dumpling was probably the greatest favourite of the many puddings my grandmother made for me. While I sat on the No 37 bus from Caird Hall in the centre of Dundee where I always jumped aboard, I would wonder what Granny might have on the stove. Treacle dumpling was always high on the wishlist. The bus would make its way up Perth Road, running parallel with the river Tay sparkling in
  
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• Meera Sodha’s recipe for vegan pineapple love cake

  25-11-2017 10:30
  This Sri Lankan classic has all my favourite cake characteristics at once: dense, floral, and full of nuts and spicesWhen I was growing up, our oven was used as an extra cupboard to keep outsized frying pans and exiled chopping boards. This was largely because my Indian parents were of a place and time (1950s Uganda) where no one had ovens at home: all breads were stove-baked flatbreads and all cakes were bought in or baked at the village bakery.As a result, any cake that merited the annual clea
  
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• Yotam Ottolenghi’s lentil recipes

  25-11-2017 10:00
  Need help to get through the run-up to Christmas? You could do a lot worse than turn to lentils, a safe haven from everything the season can throw at youA day after Black Friday and with just a month to go until Christmas, now is a time I turn to lentils. Lentils are, for me, the culinary equivalent of the calm before the storm, a simple, clear and perfect moment before the party kicks off. For better and for worse, the next four weeks are a marathon that we all forget properly to train for. Dia
  
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• What I’m really thinking: the new resident in a retirement home

  25-11-2017 09:59
  A friend asked, ‘What do you like most about living here?’ I thought long and hard. ‘I can’t think of anything’Why am I here? This is awful. What’s happened to me? I don’t like it. Why did I have to leave my little old cottage and beautiful garden, and the neighbours who were real friends? I was so happy there, and now I’m in a flat in an ugly modern building that calls itself a retirement home. Friends visit and say, “It’s so clean and
  
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• The best facial oils | Sali Hughes

  25-11-2017 08:59
  A rich, soothing oil is highly effective on most outward signs of illness and fatigueThere’s a plague over my house. I’m ill while I look after an ill child, and the last thing on my mind is the prettification of anything, least of all my face. But I do mind that everything feels sore, dry, rough, my nose is flaky and red, my cheeks are tight and grey, my lips are chapped. And it’s during times of ill health that I invariably turn to facial oil.When one has neither the energy n
  
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• What’s the best razor – or should I join a shaving club?

  25-11-2017 08:00
  I’ve tried expensive and cheap but can’t settle on oneEvery 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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• What links grape harvest, mist, frost, snowy, rainy, windy (and six others)? The Weekend quiz

  25-11-2017 08:00
  From a vet to Vistula, test your knowledge with the Weekend quiz1 Which novel begins with a decapitation by tram at Patriarch’s Ponds?
  2 What bird is named from the Old Norse for foul gull?
  3 What takes place at a Japanese onsen?
  4 Who is the chief operating officer of Facebook?
  5 Which socialist society is named after a Roman general?
  6 Which vet’s practice was at 23 Kirkgate in Thirsk, North Yorkshire?
  7 Mount Arafat is a sacred hill outside what city?
  8 What term did Ian Nairn coi
  
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• A letter to … my ex-boyfriend’s mother, who led me into a cult

  25-11-2017 07:45
  The letter you always wanted to writeI don’t know if I dare see you again, which is odd considering how drawn I was to you. Yet I think of you often and wonder how you are in your new life. I was only a teenager when I started going out with your son. I didn’t understand your initial cautions about how difficult it would be for us because I wasn’t part of your religion.In fact, my relationship with him was against the rules of the cult, but you were open-minded (and, as I quick
  
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• Do you hear what I hear?

  25-11-2017 07:39 via winnipegfreepress.com
  If you look closely, you’ll see it in the eyes of most of the people you meet at this festive time of year.It’s that tiny glint of madness, a glimmer ......
  
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• Blind date: ‘What did he think of me? Not vegan’

  25-11-2017 07:00
  Did Gareth and Alice bond over sushi?What were you hoping for?
  Good company, some nice food and a fun experience. Continue reading...
  
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• Pope's place as refugee champion tested in Myanmar

  25-11-2017 02:43 via winnipegfreepress.com
  VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis heads to Myanmar and Bangladesh with the international community excoriating Myanmar's crackdown on Rohingya Muslims as "ethnic cleansing" but his own church resisting the label ......
  
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• Retailers work to attract shoppers to stores on Black Friday

  25-11-2017 02:28 via winnipegfreepress.com
  NEW YORK - Retailers worked hard to attract shoppers to stores on Black Friday, offering in-person deals meant to counter the ease of shopping by phone on Amazon.A better economy ...
  
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• Killer Sudoku 581

  25-11-2017 01:01
  Normal sudoku rules apply, except the numbers in the cells contained within dotted lines add up to the figures in the corner. No number can be repeated within each shape formed by dotted lines.
  For a helping hand call our solutions line on 0906 200 83 83. Calls will cost £1.03 per minute, plus your phone company’s access charge. Calls from other networks may vary and mobiles will be considerably higher. Service supplied by ATS. Call 0330 333 6946 for customer service (charged at stan
  
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• Quick crossword No 14,837

  25-11-2017 01:00
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• Prize crossword No 27,364

  25-11-2017 01:00
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