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• Decorating a New Home? Here Are 5 Resolutions You Should Embrace After a Move

  28-07-2018 19:00
  The moving process can be pretty work intensive. If you’re selling, staging your home so that someone will fall in love with it and buy it is a job in itself. Then, there’s the task of packing and clearing out your old place. And then there’s the actual move, unpacking and decorating a new home.Many movers feel like they never want to move again, or at least they may want to set up their home differently the next time around. Here are five moving “aha!” moments and
  
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• Fashion spotlight shines again for 1980s designer Dapper Dan

  28-07-2018 17:45 via winnipegfreepress.com
  NEW YORK - In hip-hop's golden era, the artists responsible for rap's distinctive sound went to Harlem fashion designer Dapper Dan for the period's equally distinctive look.Now the fashion groundbreaker, ......
  
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• Róisín Murphy: ‘Realising I’d become a gay icon felt like home’

  28-07-2018 15:00
  The singer, 45, on sobriety, motherhood, not being cool or famous and blagging it at Irish dancingWe were brought up to think we were amazing. Maybe I was too confident, too full of myself. I found school difficult. I’d get followed home by 20 kids throwing stuff at me. The teachers didn’t like me either. We left Ireland for Manchester when I was 12, and I was happy to go.My family were wheeler-dealer class. They were their own bosses and very glamorous. We lived in a beautiful, big
  
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• 4 Ways to Decorate Around Minimalistic Mantels

  28-07-2018 15:00
  Mantels used to be more ornate pieces in traditional homes. They acted as the focal point of the room, harkening back to a time when people were more likely to watch the fire than a television. But today’s mantels have taken on a more minimalistic touch. Many have simple, lightly colored facades around them. Some are little more than a square where the fire goes. All are defined by a stark geometry. Because of how minimalistic they are, there are several different ways to decorate around m
  
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• Fashion spotlight once again shines for '80s star Dapper Dan

  28-07-2018 14:31 via winnipegfreepress.com
  NEW YORK - In hip-hop's golden era, the artists responsible for rap's distinctive sound went to Harlem fashion designer Dapper Dan for the period's equally distinctive look.Now the fashion groundbreaker, ......
  
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• Meera Sodha’s recipe for sunken plum, spelt and ginger cake

  28-07-2018 11:00
  Best served warm, this rich and dense cake makes for an indulgent dessertThe flour aisle of the supermarket is a much more interesting place these days. Plain flour lives up to its name in comparison with the myriad exciting grains we can now use instead, such as spelt, an ancient type of wheat that was popular in the Bronze Age. It boasts a nuttier flavour and better credentials in the nutrient department, and it produces lovely, dense-textured cakes. Here, I use it with plums and ginger, to ma
  
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• Yotam Ottolenghi’s party food recipes

  28-07-2018 10:30
  Your next event will be a breeze with this make-ahead finger food feast, including sweet potato and quinoa fritters and sushi rice cakesParty food, or finger food, is a real chore for the home cook. It’s fiddly, time-consuming and, if I’m honest, pretty dull to make. So, before I pick what to make, I always ask myself a few questions: in the interests of not spending the entire party in the kitchen, is a dish relatively quick? Can any of it be made ahead of time? Will any leftovers d
  
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• The best two-in-one cheek and lip colours | Sali Hughes

  28-07-2018 08:59
  Getting the formula right for creme blusher often makes for a flat and unflattering lipstickTwo-in-one cheek and lip colours rarely feature here. They’re routinely disappointing and I can’t honestly recommend Stila Convertible Color, YSL Kiss & Blush or Nars Multiple yet again and call it a week’s work. My issue with others is that getting the formula right for creme blusher often makes for a flat, cloudy and unflattering lipstick. For one-product-does-all convenience, one
  
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• What links Mandela, Lloyd George, Mahatma Gandhi and Millicent Fawcett? The Weekend quiz

  28-07-2018 08:00
  From rabbits to a rapper, test your knowledge with the Weekend quiz1 Which king’s wife, mother and heir were all called Matilda?
  2 Where is the Ikurriña flag flown?
  3 Which writer had rabbits called Benjamin Bouncer and Peter Piper?
  4 Which country was founded by the American Colonization Society?
  5 Observing a hobby might be part of what hobby?
  6 Which rapper is Drizzy on Twitter and Champagne Papi on Instagram?
  7 The exclamation “oy vey” comes from 
  
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• 10 of the UK’s best small islands

  28-07-2018 08:00
  With cooling sea breezes and quiet beaches, our small islands are perfect places to enjoy a hot summer. Novelists and nature writers reveal their favouritesBy Madeleine BuntingContinue reading...
  
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• Baking for puppies

  28-07-2018 07:44 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Puppy season kicked off last month, with posts on social media and a flood of photographs and videos filling up my feed. My friends and their friends, and, it seems ......
  
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• Power over the peanut

  28-07-2018 07:40 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Every year, Canadians make thousands of emergency-room visits because of food allergies, according to findings from the Canadian Institute for Health Information.Even touching a surface that previously held peanuts can ...
  
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• If you're not a handyman, get some help

  28-07-2018 07:40 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Today’s topic for handy homeowners is: building a do-it-yourself patio.So, you’ve decided to build a patio, have you? Well, let me just say — and this comes from the bottom ...
  
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• A friend in need

  28-07-2018 07:38 via winnipegfreepress.com
  I would like to take this opportunity to thank my dear friend, Agnes, for all her assistance when, on Easter Monday, I took a bad tumble after a most enjoyable ...
  
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• Sam Clark: the woman who changed how I cook

  28-07-2018 07:00
  The co-founder of Moro saw her love for Middle Eastern cooking flourish with the help of pioneering cookbook author Paula Wolfert, her recipes and experiencesMy husband Sam and I met when working at The Eagle pub in Farringdon. The cooking there was predominantly Mediterranean, but we were allowed to dabble in Middle Eastern food, which is what most interested us. Related: Inside a chef's kitchen: the Sams of Moro | A cook’s kitchenContinue reading...
  
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• Liam Charles’s recipe for sweet nachos with a popcorn sugar and lime dip

  28-07-2018 07:00
  Slather salty-sweet tortilla chips in creamy lime dip and chocolate sauce for a next-level treatThe perfect cinema snack is always up for debate. Popcorn and nachos are definitely my favourites. But you can’t have both, because you’ll be stuffed, and dinner after will be a no-go. So here’s a compromise: tortilla chips tossed in cinnamon popcorn sugar with a strawberry salsa and a lime-soured cream dip – and, of course, chocolate sauce. Nacho ordinary tortilla chips. Conti
  
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• Don’t bin limp lettuce – barbecue it instead

  28-07-2018 07:00
  If your leaves have wilted so much that they’re no use in a salad, give them a new lease of life with with a flash on the grillSalad is a bit like Marmite: you either love it or you hate it. I’m a lover of both, and they even taste good together – when your leaves are a bit wilted, just chop them up and sprinkle over Marmite toast, along with a boiled egg, if you’re feeling hungry.But we waste a lot of this leafy green: in the UK, we throw away 40% of all the bagged leave
  
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• Quick crossword No 15,046

  28-07-2018 01:00
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  28-07-2018 01:00
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