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• Getting Ready to Do Inspections on Your New House? Here’s What You Need to Know

  12-08-2018 14:00
  Congratulations — you’ve finally found a house that you love, and your offer has been accepted. Now what? The next step in home buying is doing your inspections. While this process isn’t extraordinarily difficult, it does help if you go into it as informed as possible.To prepare you, we’ve outlined the most important details of the process. Read them over and keep them in mind for your negotiations. With these tips, you’ll be able to advocate with your best interest
  
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• A foodie homage to Catalonia: a tour of its unsung delta

  12-08-2018 11:00
  Exploring the food and drink of the Ebro delta, our writer follows sustainably caught tuna from sea to plate, visits a ‘wine cathedral’ and samples Spanish sakeI’m snorkelling in the Mediterranean, three miles off the Catalan coast, and for a heart-stopping split second I’m eyeball-to-eyeball with my dinner – a 250kg bluefin tuna that shoots out of the deep blue abyss like a torpedo a metre below me. Our group of 30 or so snorkellers is surrounded by hundreds of the
  
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• Just Trying To Help Selling Candy

  12-08-2018 08:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s either the one of the worst things I’ve ever seen on the internet or the most genius reverse effects candy marketing campaign. Trale Lewous just wants to help to see candy by making his own commercial which includes Butterfinger and Twizzlers. But then comes the rather upsetting letter from them Twizzlers – so everything he’s done for these two brands was for nothing? Or was it? Because Trale Lewous made you think of Butterfinger and Twizzlers and I had run out to t
  
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• Great Danes: the Denmark of Hamlet and Karen Blixen

  12-08-2018 08:00
  The second leg of our Scandi tour visits the forests, castles and beaches of north Sealand, including a new national park, following in the footsteps of real and fictional charactersScandi tour: part one I get off the train in Snekkersten, a small coastal town 50km north of Copenhagen. The conductor has already warned me there will be nothing open: no food, no drink, no taxis. She is right. It is late at night. Really late. Close to midnight. I walk past the sleeping houses and along the beach.
  
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• The life-affirming legacy of my near-death experience

  12-08-2018 07:00
  Before I nearly died I suffered from acute anxiety – but there’s been no sign of it sinceA few weeks ago, the TV and radio presenter Richard Bacon was in the news for having spent seven days in an induced coma in Lewisham Hospital in south London after becoming ill with a lung infection on a flight from Los Angeles. Doctors told him afterwards that he had nearly died. My first reaction to this was: how dreadful for him and his family. My second reaction, more or less on top of the fi
  
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• Should I stay with my partner in our safe but loveless relationship? | Dear Mariella

  12-08-2018 07:00
  The fallout from an affair is still being felt and it’s not healthy just to wait around anticipating being separated, says Mariella Frostrup. Is it time to move on?The dilemma I’ve been with my partner for 12 years; I’m 33 and he’s 38. On the surface our relationship seems fine – we spend time together and don’t argue – but I don’t feel emotionally close to him. I think it’s because of him having an affair five years ago – I have had to
  
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• ‘Balance’ isn’t about dragging experts down to our level | Eva Wiseman

  12-08-2018 07:00
  In the name of balance, all kinds of weird and wonderful opinions are being given equal weight. But that doesn’t mean we aren’t in danger of tipping over the edge…Do you know what I’m sick of? Balance. Unless you’re walking along a very narrow handrail above a famous alligator pit, balance is overrated. Balance gave us last week’s This Morning slot where they invited observational cosmologist Dr Sarah Bosman to debate with a flat earther called Martin Kenny.
  
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• We really didn’t want to leave the perfect prison of the hospital

  12-08-2018 06:59
  It didn’t seem possible, or wise, that we were now in charge of keeping a small, damp person alive. But at least we agreed on a name for our baby sonBetween induction, labour and recovery, we spent five days in hospital. In the beginning, every hour crawled, like those fortnight-long Saturday afternoons I used to spend cross-legged, five inches from the TV screen, waiting for Sons and Daughters to finish so the wrestling would come on. After two days of this, we had no memory of having eve
  
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• How our family found hell on a heavenly holiday | Nikesh Shukla

  12-08-2018 06:59
  No one warned us about the enforced fun. Or the Birdie Song. It was like the international edition of every family occasionStop. Before you read this, be aware that there are spoilers for season one of The Good Place.I know what my version of the bad place would be. Specifically, the seemingly perfectly curated “good place” where the demon Ted Danson makes us face our worst fears in what appears to be heaven. My bad place would be in a luxurious hotel resort, with all my family aroun
  
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• Brigadiers, London: ‘You’ll smell of roasted spices, garlic and happiness’ – restaurant review

  12-08-2018 06:59
  Save up and splash out – this is Indian cuisine at its sumptuous bestBrigadiers: 1-5 Bloomberg Arcade, London EC4N 8AR (020 3319 8140). Meal for two, including drinks and service £70-£110Some restaurants are the product of accident. Others feel like they are shaped in response to their environment. Brigadiers is very much the latter. A bunch of inputs has been evaluated. A checklist has been studied and completed, and then reshaped as somewhere good to eat. This is not much of
  
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