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  • Fire Pits and Outdoor Fireplaces to Keep You Warm and Toasty in the Fall

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  • 10 of the best historic cafe-bars in Buenos Aires

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  • Michael Jackson's 'Bad' tour jacket sold at auction

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  • Here’s looking like you, kid … mini-me fashion goes global

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  • Great literary getaways: 10 writers’ retreats for an inspirational break

    Follow in the footsteps of George Orwell and nine other celebrated writers to the places that inspired their workSitting in the pretty walled garden of Montague House on Southwold High Street, it’s as if the clock has stopped. There is the same slope of pretty 19th-century roofs and tiles over the wall, the same languor and stillness. There are the same ancient bells ringing out from St Edmund’s church around the corner. All under the same low-slung gloomy Suffolk sky. No sounds of t
  • Nigel Slater’s oysters with chorizo recipe

    Paired with seafood, sausage meat makes a supper singYou could probably measure my life in sausages. How I looked forward to the tiny chipolatas and baked beans from a can that my dad would leave in the bottom oven of the Aga for when I came home from school. The plump spiral of Cumberlands I cooked for breakfast every day of my time in the Lake District. The herby butcher’s sausages and rust-red chorizo, the crumbly Bury black puddings, and the soft, blissfully mousse-like Spanish morcill
  • My partner will make a perfect wife – except she doesn’t want kids | Dear Mariella

    Why do you feel the need to rush into marriage when you’re not sure either, wonders Mariella FrostrupThe dilemma I’m 29 years old, child-free, and I’m about to propose to the love of my life. She is 36 and I know without a doubt that she would make a perfect wife. However, there is one thing I have to come to terms with. I grew up in a big family and always thought I would inevitably become a father, but my would-be fiancée decided in her early 20s that she would be perf
  • Röski, Liverpool: ‘Use any excuse to eat here’ – restaurant review

    Chocolate soil, Marmite butter, tree trunk plates… It may sound odd, but Röski is note perfectRöski, 16 Rodney Street, Liverpool L1 2TE (0151 7 088 698). A la carte £45 for three courses. Tasting menu £75. Wines from £23Do you have a birthday coming up that needs celebrating? No? How about a wedding anniversary? Or your parents’ wedding anniversary? Doesn’t matter if they’re dead. An anniversary is an anniversary. It needs marking. You don&rsq
  • New York City's Rockefeller Center Christmas tree goes up

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