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• Prince Harry and Meghan move to Windsor Estate ahead of first baby

  24-11-2018 17:20
  Britain's Prince Harry and his wife Meghan are moving to Frogmore Cottage on the royal family's Windsor Estate early next year in time for their first child's birth in the spring, they said on...
  
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• How dealing with past trauma may be the key to breaking addiction

  24-11-2018 17:00
  Opening up to past trauma is difficult, but self-awareness is key to addressing issues that leave us vulnerableWhat’s your poison, people sometimes ask, but Gabor Maté doesn’t want to ask what my poison is, he wants to ask how it makes me feel. Whatever it is I’m addicted to, or ever have been addicted to, it’s not what it is but what it does – to me, to you, to anyone. He believes that anything we’ve ever craved helped us escape emotional pain. It gave
  
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• This Stunning Frank Lloyd Wright Home is for Sale

  24-11-2018 13:00
  This Frank Lloyd Wright home is in the news after lots of controversy. Decades after Lloyd Wright built the home for his son, the Arizona home was scheduled for demolition. In 2012, Wright’s apprenticeship program, the School of Architecture at Taliesin, saved it. But funding fell through and the home is now listed for sale for almost $13 million.The estate features sweeping views and a spiral design that became famous almost a decade later when Lloyd Wright completed the Guggenheim m
  
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• Tamal Ray’s clementine and lemon syrup cake | The Sweet Spot

  24-11-2018 12:00
  Delicate, tender caramelised citrus meets the satisfying crunch of nutty bulgur wheat soaked in sticky syrupI see this sort of cake as the antidote to those towering sponge-beasts, slathered in buttercream, that you see in bakery windows. This is delicate and moist, showing off its caramelised fruits with pride. The bulgur wheat is an ingredient you may not have baked with before; I tend to use it instead of polenta, as it provides texture but also a pleasing, nutty flavour that complements the
  
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• Cuba libre: exploring the island by campervan

  24-11-2018 12:00
  It’s never been easy for visitors to explore this fascinating country independently. But for the first time, state-approved vans give licence to roam Cuba’s mountains, beaches and townsOur campervan passes through Manicaragua, a tobacco-growing (once sugar-growing) town in the centre of Cuba. Manicaragua’s leaves are used for the dense core of Habanos cigars; premium leaves from Pinar del Río form the outer layer.This is a true backwater but in the 1940s and 1950s, befor
  
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• Yotam Ottolenghi’s pear recipes

  24-11-2018 10:30
  Pears make the perfect autumn pudding just as they are, but they’re also stellar in cheesecake, cookies and cakesThere is little I love more than a perfect pear; buttery, sweet, ever so slightly grainy – and a king on its throne when sitting on a hunk of salty cheese. Pear trees are common enough here in Britain, but the perfect pear is still elusive, with under-ripe fruit often the norm on shop shelves. But worry not: less than perfect pears can be transformed. In today’s chee
  
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• ‘I feel fortunate to live with a sibling I get on with’

  24-11-2018 10:30
  In our new series celebrating all the different ways we now choose to live together: the sistersTen years ago, my sister, Claire, and I were living with our parents. I wanted to move out, and it seemed sensible to buy a house together. When we were children, we didn’t get on; as adults, we don’t fall out, because we’ve lived together all our lives and share a similar outlook. Continue reading...
  
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• The sounds of sports are music to my ears | Hannah Jane Parkinson

  24-11-2018 10:00
  Is there anything as beautiful to the ear as the thwack of a tennis ball, the crack of a cricket bat, the clonk of snooker balls colliding?Nothing pleases me more than the sounds of sports. I’d narrow it down to a specific one – a specific noise, or a specific sport – but there are too many of both, and all bring me equal amounts of contentment. Skateboarding is essentially a piece of music to me. There’s the clink of the metal of the trucks against the metal lip of a hal
  
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• Bill Bailey: ‘As a parent, I’m constantly suggesting some physical activity’

  24-11-2018 09:00
  The actor and comedian on birdwatching, taking naps and gaming with his sonI try to go to bed around midnight because I like to get up early, at 7am. It’s difficult to wind down when you come off stage because of the adrenaline. It keeps me awake longer than I would like. During school term-time, when I’m performing in the evening, I’ll do the school run with my son Dax, 14, and have a catch-up nap later in the morning. Continue reading...
  
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• What is ‘posh bingo’, according to Julian Barnes? The Weekend quiz

  24-11-2018 08:00
  From Gaping Gill to the Daily Beast, test your knowledge with the Weekend quiz1 What is “posh bingo”, according to Julian Barnes?
  2 Which two European states have areas of less than 1 square mile?
  3 Joyce Cansfield was which gameshow’s first champion (1982)?
  4 A plangonologist collects what?
  5 Anson Jones was the fourth and last president of which republic?
  6 The Book of Kells is kept in which library?
  7 Sabermetrics is the empirical analysis of which sport?
  8 Who were the Nors
  
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• Four toast topping with a difference | Fergus Jackson

  24-11-2018 08:00
  Put away those beans! Try a more lavish toast topping: ricotta and sage, honey butter and apple, or anchoïade with poached egg ...Prep 10 min
  Cook 55 min
  Makes 4 large toasts Continue reading...
  
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• Fit in my 40s: ‘Open water swimming: I genuinely thought I might die’ | Zoe Williams

  24-11-2018 08:00
  Better to swim through the mild autumn into the start of winter, and build a tolerance I think I’m made of iron filings, in fitness and in general terms, but actually I’m a physical coward. I think a lot of people are like this, but maybe that’s just a thing that cowards think. So I gave open-water swimming a shot in late October – the first hint of a cold snap – in a regular swimsuit, and gave up somewhere around my ankles. I didn’t rear up against the discom
  
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• 20 best affordable hotels in the eastern Caribbean

  24-11-2018 08:00
  A world away from the cruise ships and all-inclusives, our writer goes island hopping through the eastern Caribbean, staying in small, characterful hotels Continue reading...
  
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• A letter to… my mother who blamed me when I was raped

  24-11-2018 07:45
  ‘You asked why I drank when I know what happens to girls who drink’: the letter you always wanted to writeIt was after midnight when I finally plucked up the courage. “My ex,” I said, my voice rough. “He raped me.” There, I thought: it’s out in the open. I was disconcerted, though. The sense of relief that people talk about didn’t come. You just stood there. Staring.So I explained that I’d been forcibly intoxicated. It was when I went to visi
  
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• Get inspired by festive Christmas home tour

  24-11-2018 07:41 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Six Selkirk-area homes are opening their doors to help visitors get in the Christmas spirit.The fourth annual Homes for the Holidays House and Heritage Tour is scheduled for Nov. 29-Dec. ...
  
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• This Christmas, give your meathead the gift of grease

  24-11-2018 07:40 via winnipegfreepress.com
  I don’t want to sound overly creepy, but it’s starting to smell a lot like Christmas.For the record, I am not referring here to the fragrance of fresh-cut pine, or ...
  
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• Why you should never throw away stale bread | Tom Hunt

  24-11-2018 07:00
  From soups and stews to ‘poor man’s parmesan’ - a crunchy pasta topping – there’s loads to do with a past-it loafAccording to Toast ale, which makes beer out of stale bread, we waste almost 900,000 tonnes of the stuff a year, or about 24m slices every day. In terms of calories, that’s enough to pull 26m people out of hunger. Half of this is wasted from our homes.We love fresh bread, but the life of a loaf doesn’t stop at sandwiches and toast. As bread ag
  
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• 'She was like a second mother': the German woman who saved our Jewish family history

  24-11-2018 07:00
  When my grandparents faced deportation to the death camps, they entrusted their beloved housekeeper with their life storyMy mother’s handwriting has always been challenging. I’m used to deciphering it by now, but for her two teenage granddaughters, new correspondence means a fresh, code-breaking session. So it wasn’t unexpected to read recently the advice that an earlier generation gave her: “Your handwriting is really bad. That surprises me, as you are normally so skilfu
  
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• Blind date: ‘Being French, she went for the double-cheek greeting kiss’

  24-11-2018 07:00
  Sara, 24, dance artist, meets Stu, 29, digital marketing executiveWhat were you hoping for?
  Not a lad. Someone creative, slightly strange and sensitive. Continue reading...
  
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• Tim Dowling: now it’s my wife’s turn to declare war on the squirrel

  24-11-2018 06:59
  ‘I’m going to win,’ my wife saysMy wife and I are arguing. “It’s not wide enough,” I say. “Nothing here is wide enough.”“Look,” she says, “this one says it’s wider.” Continue reading...
  
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• Quick crossword No 15,148

  24-11-2018 01:00
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  24-11-2018 01:00
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• Ugandan women fight their way out of the slums, dream of boxing glory

  24-11-2018 00:00
  Nineteen-year-old Lydia Nantale makes her way home from work through the squalor of the Katanga Slum in central Kampala, Uganda's capital. But there's only time for a quick change of clothes as her...
  
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