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• Matt Moran's Thai-style fish curry recipe

  09-12-2017 22:00
  Known for his Sydney restaurants Aria and Chiswick, the chef makes the most of the diversity of Australia’s fresh produce in his latest cookbookA good curry is as much a part of many people’s repertoire as meat and three veg, and it’s all the better when made with a homemade curry paste. If I have time, I use a mortar and pestle to make a double batch of paste and then freeze half of it, so I’m a step ahead next time a curry craving hits. If I’m in a hurry, I’
  
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• Ohio couple told again to get rid of 'support' goats

  09-12-2017 18:10 via winnipegfreepress.com
  BOWLING GREEN, Ohio - An Ohio couple who say their three goats have helped ease the husband's depression has been ordered once again to get rid of them.The Blade reports ......
  
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• Bill Bailey: ‘We’re an island race, no wonder we don't like Europe’

  09-12-2017 15:00
  The comedian, 53, discusses quad bikes, sponge cakes and the thrill of performing liveThere’s something about hearing the audience when you’re offstage and about to go on that I really live for. I’ve never done a bungie jump, but I imagine it’s similar, you edge out on to a ledge and someone says: “Ladies and gentlemen”, and there’s no going back. I love that.My earliest memory is feeling soil between my fingers when I was around three years old. I grew
  
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• The Freshome Gift Guide: Farmhouse Gifts for Country Design Lovers

  09-12-2017 13:08
  We hope you like the products we recommend. Just so you are aware, Freshome may collect a share of sales from the links on this page.Who says purists of different design styles can’t be friends? You may be into contemporary, but know someone who needs a little extra tradition and frill in their life. For those who love farmhouse design, we’ve created a roundup of lovely farmhouse gifts in stores now from country-chic design stars like Joanna Gaines, Martha Stewart and more.Farmhouse
  
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• Russia's delayed Nureyev ballet to test Kremlin tolerance

  09-12-2017 11:44
  MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Bolshoi Theatre ballet about the life of Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev set to premiere on Saturday contains tender scenes of gay romance, testing the Kremlin's tolerance for what...
  
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• 'Older people have pulled up the ladder': inside England's oldest and youngest towns

  09-12-2017 11:00
  Minehead has the oldest population in England, Manchester the youngest. What do they tell us about the way we live now?‘Baby boomers have built an empire and empires need protecting,” says Reuben Young, a millennial who runs the pressure group PricedOut. “When younger people say, ‘We want our own house, we want to build more’, baby boomers see their empire as being under threat. God forbid that house prices fall and housing becomes cheaper for young people!”Yo
  
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• Turkey with a twist: Felicity Cloake’s recipes for smart spins on traditional Christmas ingredients

  09-12-2017 10:30
  Tired of the standard festive menu? Felicity Cloake takes five Christmas favourites – smoked salmon, turkey, spuds, sprouts and trifle – and turns them into something way more exciting insteadThe idea that Christmas is a season best enjoyed in a state of abject exhaustion is one festive tradition that needs knocking on the head: if you have to get up at 6am to start cooking, it isn’t worth it. Here are three ways with five Christmas classics: one designed with maximum ease in m
  
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• What I’m really thinking: the mediator

  09-12-2017 10:00
  We need to be impartial, non-judgmental and endlessly patient, but I feel like telling them to stop behaving like five-year-oldsThe housing trust is at its wits’ end. Two households are in an intractable dispute over a small area of pavement between their houses, where each feels they have a right to park. In fact, no one owns the road outside their house, but each person feels their circumstances entitle them to park there. So, a mediator – me – has been called in. Parkin
  
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• A cunning plan: Yotam Ottolenghi’s main course recipes for a Christmas party

  09-12-2017 10:00
  The secret to cooking for a festive get-together? Organisation, so you can join in with all the fun, tooFeeding a crowd is fun, but it requires a fair bit of organisation. Three practical tips, then. First, plan and prepare as much as you can in advance: marinate meat, make sauces and dressings, toast and chop nuts, grill vegetables. Next, picture the plate you’re planning to serve: more is not always more, and you don’t need to offer 12 different things to choose from. I often draw
  
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• Meera Sodha’s recipes for a vegan Christmas dinner

  09-12-2017 09:30
  Being vegan doesn’t mean you have to settle for second best at the festive tableChristmas in the Sodha family is a movable feast. We usually eat British or European food, rather than the Indian we have every day, because to us it feels more celebratory. Every year, each of us chooses something we most want to eat and, to honour that household tradition, every recipe on today’s Christmas menu is based on one of my family’s favourite ingredients or dishes.I love being in the kitc
  
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• The best Christmas gifts for mums | Sali Hughes

  09-12-2017 09:00
  Forget about wicker baskets full of anonymous toiletries – here are presents she might actually wantI always thought “Gifts for Mum” were the dullest pages in Christmas catalogues, but it’s only now, when I’m exactly the type of woman at whom they’re aimed, that I realise quite how unwanted their picks must have been. Floral hand creams designed for those who supposedly love weeding gardens and washing pans, everything scented with lily of the valley, big
  
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• What perfume ingredient comes from sperm whales? The Weekend quiz

  09-12-2017 08:00
  From a monument to memoirs, test your knowledge with the Weekend quiz1 What did the Chicago Daily Tribune famously claim on 3 November 1948?
  2 What perfume ingredient comes from sperm whales?
  3 What usually range in size from 6.5 to 8?
  4 The Monument to the Battle of the Nations is in what city?
  5 Choupette is which fashion designer’s cat?
  6 What art term means “light dark” in Italian?
  7 Which TV series is based on the memoirs of Jennifer Worth?
  8 With 110 million people, what
  
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• How much do you need to live on in retirement?

  09-12-2017 08:00
  I want to retire as soon as I can, but friends say the minimum realistic spend for a decent life is £20,000 a yearEvery 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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• How we all become museums of our parents’ lives

  09-12-2017 07:44
  When Debbie Johnson’s parents died, going through their possessions brought back memories, but one mug had a special resonanceOur homes, over all the years of cluttering and decluttering and inevitable recluttering, evolve into our own personal museums. Not the kind of museum that the Arts Council would fund, obviously: more the strange, ramshackle type you find in old seaside towns, dedicated to pencils or lawnmowers or the history of dentures.My own home, certainly, developed e
  
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• A letter to … my mother – I’ll be relieved when you are in your coffin

  09-12-2017 07:44
  The letter you always wanted to writeMost people struggle to face the truth. They keep going back, trying to make it better, trying to make their parents understand. They go into therapy and try to work on themselves. I went to therapy, too. But all it did was confirm what I already knew.See, I already hated you. I don’t know how young I was when I stopped loving you. Eight or nine, probably, one of those ugly ages when you’re no longer a cute little kid but you’re not an attra
  
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• Ask the Expert: Coca-Cola button sign

  09-12-2017 07:42 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Dear Mike,I know you know a lot about Coca-Cola collectibles. I have this plastic Coca-Cola button sign. I cannot find any info on it on the web.It is made out ......
  
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• Simplify gift giving to complete your list

  09-12-2017 07:41 via winnipegfreepress.com
  When family-life counsellor Kim John Payne published Simplicity Parenting: Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier, and More Secure Kids in 2009, he was warning us about ...
  
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• 'A special day' for hundreds of kids -- and the adults, too

  09-12-2017 07:37 via winnipegfreepress.com
  It turns out I have a lot more in common with Charlie Brown than I realized.It’s not that I have a head the same size and shape as a regulation ...
  
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• Why I became a mother of dragons (well, chickens)

  09-12-2017 07:14
  Are you a despairing middle-aged mother of teenagers? Do you have a small backyard and questions about your place in the world? Fear not, there is an answer to your problems: chickensI have observed before, with startling originality – to my friends, in these pages, to indifferent youths on supermarket checkouts as I stock up on litre bottles of budget spirits – that parenting teenagers is hard. If anything, it seems to have got harder since my last foray into complaining about it. R
  
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• My brother was held as a slave for 26 years

  09-12-2017 06:59
  Alan drifted away from home in his 20s and, for 26 years, we didn’t even know if he was alive. Then we discovered the awful truth – for that whole time, he had been kept in modern-day slaveryI was at work when I got the call from the human trafficking unit. I work for the health service and occasionally need to carry out database searches for the police. This call was from an officer who asked if I could search for a possible former patient who used to live locally.A r
  
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• Blind date: ‘I went through his dating apps and swiped on his behalf’

  09-12-2017 06:59
  Was there a spark between Michael, 27, special educational needs tutor, and Tom, 23, PhD studentWhat were you hoping for?
  Someone fun and easy to be around. Continue reading...
  
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• American evangelist leads rare event in communist Vietnam

  09-12-2017 03:54 via winnipegfreepress.com
  HANOI, Vietnam - More than 10,000 Vietnamese filled up a stadium in a rare Christian evangelistic event led by the Rev. Franklin Graham, who said he wants the communist government ......
  
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• Shaking up Christmas

  09-12-2017 03:39 via winnipegfreepress.com
  It goes without saying Christmas is a time for traditions, a time for engaging in annual customs and rituals because of the comfort they provide in a topsy-turvy world.But this ...
  
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• Prize crossword No 27,376

  09-12-2017 01:00
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• What's in the box?

  09-12-2017 00:12 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Four times a year, a beautiful box of full-sized beauty and health products lands on my doorstep and it is legitimately the most exciting piece of mail I receive.Inside is ...
  
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• California's 2018 abalone fishing cancelled by officials

  09-12-2017 00:04 via winnipegfreepress.com
  SAN DIEGO - California wildlife officials have voted to cancel the 2018 abalone fishing season due to concerns about mass starvation among the mollusks along Sonoma and Mendocino coasts.The Santa ......
  
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