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• Bondi Harvest's rum lavender chocolate brownies recipe

  03-02-2018 22:32
  The clean-living chefs’ new cookbook is filled with healthy and delicious versions of family-friendly recipesBalance means not missing out on the good stuff and not feeling guilty when dessert time rolls around. We believe if you’re vibing chocolate cake, then get your cake on.Continue reading...
  
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• Rucksack rock

  03-02-2018 15:36 via winnipegfreepress.com
  While the first week of February doesn’t exactly conjure up visions of family picnics and backyard barbecues, Doug Touchette isn’t letting Manitoba’s frigid conditions stop him from daydreaming about those ...
  
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• What if we did less, but achieved more?

  03-02-2018 15:21 via winnipegfreepress.com
  When it comes to the subject of productivity and women, a lot has been written about “having it all.”We’re supposed to boss up and smash that glass ceiling with our ...
  
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• 50 Cent: ‘Bankruptcy wasn’t a big deal for me’

  03-02-2018 15:00
  The musician, 42, discusses respect for Eminem, people-watching on trains, and seeing through the newsActing allows me to be everything I’m not. It’s the biggest escape possible. In music, you become the hit; you become the song you’ve created. It’s like Mary J Blige. Her audience wants her to be in pain. When she’s suffering she becomes more likable to her audience. For me, acting gives me the chance to break out of being me, to explore other parts of myself.I&rsqu
  
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• Margot Robbie: ‘I asked my girlfriends what they'd been through. And they were angry’

  03-02-2018 12:00
  The actor talks to Tom Lamont about speaking out, hanging with the crew on set, and going from Neighbours to an Oscar nomination for I,TonyaNostalgic, nodding to herself, Margot Robbie walks around the deserted London bar a little in the manner of a soldier returning to the site of a heavy battle. A few years ago, when the Australian actor’s film career was getting going, when she was a Neighbours graduate who had been cast in a Martin Scorsese film, The Wolf Of Wall Street, Robbie lived n
  
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• From dusk till dawn: in search of old-school Bangkok

  03-02-2018 11:00
  Lawrence Osborne revels in the anarchic spirit of a Thai city that is Blade Runner made real and where mobile bars and food vendors pop up overnightBangkok may be the most-visited city on Earth, but it remains one of the least-known to outsiders. In the grip of a property bubble and construction explosion, it moves faster than any eye can cope with. Even when I return from a three-week trip abroad, the perceptible changes around me are not particularly subtle. The condo tower being built next to
  
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• The secret to tackling your child’s bullying behaviour

  03-02-2018 10:30
  It takes a brave parent to admit their son or daughter has been unkind – and to do something about itDo not collude. There’s never an excuse for bullying and your child needs to know that your sympathies lie with the victim.Bullying thrives on silence. It takes an honest parent to admit that their child has done something so nasty. If told your child is bullying, try not to go for instant denial, but investigate instead. Continue reading...
  
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• Meera Sodha’s potato and cabbage curry | The New Vegan

  03-02-2018 10:30
  A generations-old Gujarati recipe that’s a cheap and delicious curry to make at home in the 21st centuryToday’s recipe is an ancient dish that my ancestors cooked over wooden fires in their village on the Kathiawar peninsula in Gujarat, western India. It’s also something I ate regularly when I got home from school in Lincolnshire, while sitting in front of the telly and watching Neighbours, as well as something I wanted to eat almost every day when I was pregnant. It might be s
  
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• Yotam Ottolenghi’s recipes for using up leftover bread

  03-02-2018 10:00
  Don’t chuck out that stale bread. Instead, repurpose it into a hearty main course or sumptuous puddingHome bakers rarely throw away bread. This makes total sense: so much effort goes into making a loaf that it’s madness to chuck out anything that doesn’t make it to the table or lunchbox before going stale. The same should apply to any bread, really: there are plenty of ways to use up leftovers, from breadcrumbs and salads to puddings and today’s “lasagne”, in
  
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• ‘NatWest closed my account with no explanation’

  03-02-2018 09:35
  Growing numbers of people are being shown the door as banks ‘de-risk’ their businessesHow would you feel if you were dumped by your bank with no explanation?You’ve been a loyal customer for years, but then a letter arrives saying your bank has decided it will shut your accounts, and you will have to take your business elsewhere. No reason is given and the decision is final. Continue reading...
  
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• Where to move for... fresh air

  03-02-2018 09:00
  The wealthy have long avoided pollution by living in the south-west of British cities. Is that still the case?Back to school. Geography lesson. Subject: UK towns and cities and the distribution of social classes. Question: Where do you find the wealthiest urban populations? Come on, come on. Yes, you. “In the west and south-west of towns, often on hills.” Bingo. Bonus question: Why? “Air pollution. The UK’s prevailing wind is southwesterly, blowing smog north and east. It
  
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• The best microbead-free scrubs | Sali Hughes

  03-02-2018 09:00
  The plastic pollutants have finally been outlawed. Good riddance: there are many cruelty-free, vegan exfoliants On 9 January, the use of plastic microbeads in rinse-off beauty products and toiletries was finally outlawed, after years of campaigning by environmental groups and more responsible sections of the beauty industry. Good riddance, I say, since microbeads – those tiny, coloured, plastic spheres suspended in scrubs and shower gels, ostensibly to “exfoliate” dead ski
  
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• Helena Morrissey: ‘We have nine children. I plan every day on a whiteboard’

  03-02-2018 08:59
  The 51-year-old head of personal investing at Legal & General on juggling work and family, shunning meetings and switching off with pilatesI go to bed around 10pm and get up at 5am, but often wake in the night, usually because I am stressed by the things I have to do the next day. I’ve learned to say: “Look Helena, this is silly, everything will be fine in the morning.” It’s not a fail-safe method.Continue reading...
  
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• Can I cook like ... Michelle Obama?

  03-02-2018 08:59
  The former first lady is as breezy in the kitchen as she is out of itThe Obamas, my partner and I agree, are probably the pinnacle of what any couple should aim for. They’re both successful, attractive, clearly in love and, for eight glorious years, if you pissed them off, they could send a drone to blow up your house.Although having our own drone strike capacity is both prohibitively expensive and highly illegal, I hoped that cooking from the Michelle Obama playbook might get us closer to
  
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• What do fashion insiders think of Phantom Thread?

  03-02-2018 08:00
  The film paints a wistful picture of the rarified world inside Reynolds Woodcock’s 50s London townhouse atelier. Four industry experts give their verdicts on its authenticity, from the Belgian princesses to Daniel Day-Lewis’s pin-pricked fingersFor fashion insiders, the star of Phantom Thread isn’t newcomer Vicky Krieps or Oscar contender Lesley Manville. Instead, it’s two people – Sue Clark and Joan Brown. Playing the women who run Reynolds Woodcock’s atelier
  
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• Lie, cheat, steal your way to Boardwalk

  03-02-2018 07:45 via winnipegfreepress.com
  In a heated game of Monopoly, there was always a certain gravitas in being the banker, the player who keeps a close eye on the money and ensures everyone plays ......
  
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• Banned bird sparks airing of grievances

  03-02-2018 07:37 via winnipegfreepress.com
  I’m afraid I have some tragic news for air travellers who become extremely anxious when they board an airliner.It turns out you will not be allowed to get on board ...
  
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• 20 of Europe’s best new hotels and hostels for 2018

  03-02-2018 07:30
  Fancy staying in a converted convent or an old post office that’s been given a new stamp of style? We pick new places across Europe, from affordable dorms to sea view suitesDoubles from €90 room-only
  Opened September 2017
  Bedrooms 47
  As the name suggests, this new boutique hotel (pictured above) celebrates avant-garde artists and pioneers in the fields of music, literature, design, fashion and architecture. Each room takes its inspiration from a different visionary: the Frida Kahlo ro
  
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• Prize crossword No 27,423

  03-02-2018 01:00
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• Inspired by Biba: oil-pastel fashion – in pictures

  03-02-2018 01:00
  Italian artist Emanuela Di Filippo uses oil pastels to create sinuous images of women wearing bold outfits in the style of Biba, the swinging 60s fashion store set up by Barbara Hulanicki. Influenced by the vibrant colours of artist Sonia Delaunay and the slender portraits of Modigliani, Di Filippo trained in fine art in Rome before moving to the UK. “I was inspired by abstract, minimal, contemporary artists. But then I came back to my first loves: art and fashion,” she says. Biba&rs
  
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