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• Designing Your Home with Self-Care in Mind

  26-12-2018 23:00
  Self-care is trending. But it’s not just another hot topic that will be here today and gone tomorrow. Taking care of ourselves is, perhaps, more essential than ever. In our digital world with near-constant stimuli, it takes diligence to slow down and check in with ourselves. Failing to do so leaves us feeling burnt out and uninspired. The good news? We can all make some changes to our homes to make self-care a little easier. Here are a few of our top tips.Where do you go to get away from i
  
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• 'Tech addicts' seek solace in 12 steps and rehab

  26-12-2018 16:20 via winnipegfreepress.com
  BELLEVUE, Wash. - We like to say we're addicted to our phones or an app or some new show on a streaming video service.But for some people, tech gets in ......
  
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• Nature Conservancy recommends a better fate for your Christmas tree

  26-12-2018 16:16 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Canada's Christmas tree farms produce over three million pine, spruce and fir trees each year — and most of them are simply abandoned at the curb soon after Santa makes ...
  
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• Edmunds: How much car can you get for $399 a month? Plenty

  26-12-2018 16:10 via winnipegfreepress.com
  The average monthly payment for a new car is hovering around $530, according to the most recent Experian auto finance report. The average lease payment is $430. While these payments ...
  
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• Sherpa widows to climb Everest to inspire single women

  26-12-2018 14:14
  The widows of two sherpa climbers, who died on Mount Everest, will try to climb the world’s highest mountain to complete the unfinished ascents of their husbands and hopefully inspire other single...
  
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• ‘I feel like a big rich baby': my week of comfort dressing

  26-12-2018 14:00
  Comfort is in fashion, with kimonos on the catwalk and cashmere jogging bottoms on the high street. But is it ever OK to wear your nightie to work?The designer Yves Saint Laurent once said that dressing is a way of life. In his view, clothes are not a mere accessory to life’s key moments, but integral to the moment itself. Fashion, then, is not just a hobby, but a methodology for living well. What Saint Laurent never made clear was whether this methodology can be applied to an ordinary, le
  
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• If the Italians did eggnog – how to make the perfect zabaglione recipe | Felicity Cloake

  26-12-2018 13:00
  A boozy, pick-me-up pudding for your Chrismas get-together, great served over fruit, or on a bed of crushed amarettiThough I won’t hear a word said against Christmas pudding, this “warm, wine-scented froth”, as Marcella Hazan beautifully describes zabaglione, is surely the ultimate festive dessert: rich yet light, easy to knock up at the last minute and, crucially, boozy enough to put everyone in a good mood. As Angela Hartnett warns, “don’t eat zabaglione and drive
  
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• Turkey fajitas and cheeseboard fondue: comfort food for Boxing Day

  26-12-2018 11:00
  After the stress of Christmas dinner, take it easy with these simple, crowd-pleasing recipes, guaranteed to make the most of your leftovers
  Any keen cook – professional or amateur – knows that playing around with leftovers is often more fun than making the main dish in the first place, and Christmas is a bumper time for experimentation. In the aftermath of the biggest meal of the year, though, it is also a time to give yourself a break, with some recipes that are as easy to throw tog
  
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• 10 great winter walks in the UK: readers’ tips

  26-12-2018 10:30
  Cold winds sweep marshes, hills, woods and moors from Rye to Pitlochry. But our tipsters are hardy and know the best routes – and some restorative pitstopsFollowing days of Christmas inactivity, we head up for a long family walk in the Peak District. Mam Tor tops the list for me – a reliable route on which to be battered by all the elements to restoratively whip away the post-Christmas slump. Take a steep path up from Hope or Castleton and follow the ridge across the top of the moors
  
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• Here we go again: it's the Boxing Day travel quiz

  26-12-2018 08:00
  Will you be the winner taking it all, or facing your Waterloo? Charge your glasses and test your brain cells with questions on film locations, geography and current affairs
  • Take our Christmas travel quizWhat island was used as a location in the Mamma Mia! sequel, Here we go Again?Vis, CroatiaSyros, GreeceMadeiraCreteFernando’s The 2018 smash Crazy Rich Asians was set largely in which city? Hong KongShanghaiSingaporeTokyoNew YorkNext year marks the 50th anniversary of the release of
  
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• What most terrifies the US President? Take the Donald Trump quiz of the year

  26-12-2018 07:00
  With whom did the president claim to have fallen in love? Whom did he describe as the US’s biggest foe? And what did he say to Putin?On 27 October, Donald Trump told a rally in Indianapolis that perhaps he should have cancelled that campaign stop. Why?Out of respect for the 11 victims of the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre who had been gunned down while at prayer earlier that dayBecause his appearance in the city clashed with a visit by Barack ObamaBecause he was having “a bad hair day
  
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• Bumper Boxing Day crowds expected on UK’s ailing high streets

  26-12-2018 01:01
  Pre-dawn queues likely but overall Christmas trading is likely to disappoint retailersMillions of Britons are expected to make their annual pilgrimage to the Boxing Day sales despite the event having been hijacked by last month’s Black Friday spree.Some of the country’s biggest shopping centres are predicting bumper crowds as retailers slash the price of winter clothing, homewares and household gadgets to make way for spring ranges. Continue reading...
  
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