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• Croatian town to showcase Mercedes love affair with monument

  19-05-2019 19:04
  A town in southern Croatia whose citizens are obsessed withMercedes-Benz cars plans to build a monument to the German car that symbolizes success for its rural inhabitants.
  
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• 6 Ways to Make a Temporary Living Space Feel Like Home

  19-05-2019 19:00
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  Anyone who has moved or built a new home can tell you that the process is anything but seamless. Sure, you might hear from the one unicorn homeowner who made everything work perfectly but, in most cases, moving can be complicated and messy. There might be a gap between when an old home is sold and the new home is ready, or construction completion dates can be dela
  
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• Curious foreigners get rare chance to sample Emirati culture

  19-05-2019 17:10
  No question was off limits for curious tourists and foreign residents of Dubai wanting to learn more about Emirati culture and the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.
  
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• Why Monica from Friends is this summer’s unlikely style icon

  19-05-2019 14:00
  We were all too busy admiring Rachel’s hair and Chandler’s jokes first time around to notice Monica Geller’s love of mom jeans and hair barrettes. But the world has finally caught up with the poster girl for 90s normcoreTowards the end of 2018, Netflix paid $100m (£78m) to extend its right to air Friends for one more year. Netflix doesn’t release viewing figures, but this confirmed what we already knew: a whole new generation is hooked on Ross, Rachel, Joey, Phoebe,
  
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• Nigel Slater: 10 recipes from my little black book

  19-05-2019 14:00
  Exclusive extract: For years, Nigel Slater has been writing down everything he eats in his notebook. These notes shape the plant-based recipes in his new book, GreenfeastThere is a little black book on the kitchen table. Neatly annotated in places, virtually illegible in others, it is the latest in a long line of tissue-thin pages containing the hand-written details of everything I eat. This is not one of the kitchen chronicles where I write down recipe workings and shopping lists, ideas and wis
  
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• Jessie and Lennie Ware: ‘We don’t want to turn into the Kardashians’

  19-05-2019 13:00
  Mother and daughter on their Table Manners podcast – and the day it all went wrong at Pete Tong’sThere is a poacher turned gamekeeper feel to interviewing Jessie and Lennie Ware over lunch. It’s usually them, in their double-act Table Manners podcast, doing the grilling – while doing the grilling. The 34-year-old singer-songwriter and her irrepressible mother have had all sorts of guests for supper: Sadiq Khan, Yotam Ottolenghi, Ed Sheeran (with whom Jessie wrote her bigg
  
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• How to Make Sure Your Home Stays Energy Efficient this Summer

  19-05-2019 13:00
  For many of us, summer has become synonymous with high energy bills. However, even if you’re one of those people who has to have their AC running at all times, there are things that you can do to cut down on energy costs. To that end, we’ve created the following guide. Below is a list of surprisingly simple tips that you can use to ensure that your home stays energy efficient this summer. Don’t go into the warmer months without it.Make sure to have your HVAC system inspected se
  
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• The rise of social supermarkets: 'It's not about selling cheap food, but building strong communities'

  19-05-2019 12:30
  Millions of Britons struggle to put food on the table. Are social supermarkets, where surplus stock from big retailers is discounted, the solution?Near the tills, in what looks, at first glance, like a standard convenience store, is a shelving unit crammed with goods, all bearing a familiar high street logo. There are packs of flour and jars of pitted black olives, tins of mixed bean salad and boxes of mushroom soup sachets. Hanging from the front is a laminated sign. It reads: “20 for 20.
  
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• Counter culture: my life growing up in a corner shop

  19-05-2019 12:29
  BBC presenter Babita Sharma on what she learned from helping out in her parents’ store, and why corner shops remain an essential part of British lifeI am a corner shop kid and my childhood home was shared with our customers for more than a decade. We – a family of five – ate, slept, lived and worked in the shop. We served you and you gave us business, but there was a world beyond the counter that you never knew. My parents’ store near Reading was the perfect place to lear
  
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• What's it like to live with a chef?

  19-05-2019 12:00
  Long hours, early starts: three couples reveal how they juggle the demands of the job with domestic life – and who does the cooking at homeJames “Jocky” Petrie, group executive development chef for the Gordon Ramsay Group, lives with his wife, musician Úna Palliser, near St Albans. They have two daughters: one four-year-old and one a few months old. Petrie has appeared on MasterChef, Heston’s Fantastical Food and Hell’s Kitchen. Úna has worked with Sha
  
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• Pennies from heaven: what’s it like to suddenly become rich?

  19-05-2019 12:00
  We’ve all daydreamed about an unexpected windfall that would change our luck. But what’s it really like to suddenly come into money? Michael Segalov meets five people who didOur routine was always the same. Wayne, my husband, would pop into the post office on his way to work to get our lottery tickets, and he’d get up early the morning after the draw and check the numbers. He’d forgotten to check the Tuesday night Euromillions till the Thursday.Continue reading...
  
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• OFM’s classic cookbook: Rick Stein’s English Seafood Cookery

  19-05-2019 12:00
  Nathan Outlaw pays tribute to the 1988 book that he borrowed from Rick Stein’s restaurant (and never gave back). Plus five brilliant recipesI wouldn’t be the chef I am today if this book didn’t exist.I saw a copy for the first time in 1998, in the staff room at the Seafood Restaurant in Padstow. I’d started working with Rick in March that year and picked it up from the staff room table one quiet lunchtime and never put it back. I borrowed it for life. Sorry, Rick! Continu
  
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• What my queer journey taught me about love

  19-05-2019 11:30
  After a painful split, Amelia Abraham set off around the world, meeting sex workers, trans activists and a nonbinary family to see how LGBTQ+ culture has changed the way we can live togetherOn an easyJet flight in November 2016, I wondered whether it was possible to die of heartbreak. It felt like I was cracking down the middle, a gorge opening up. I’d met my girlfriend on Tinder and instantly fallen in love. She was in the UK for a holiday from the small Icelandic town where she lived, so
  
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• The baby boy’s speech has suddenly exploded. But what is he saying?

  19-05-2019 10:00
  All of a sudden, he’s gone far beyond mere ‘bababababa’ and ‘plpplpplpplp’After 10 months of patient silence, this week saw an explosion in my son’s vocabulary, as his wayward mash of vowels and consonants gave way to a torrent of altogether more defined syllables. This will come as no surprise to anyone familiar with his earlier work. Few who heard his first releases, babababababa or plpplpplpplpplpplp could doubt he was one to watch, and his dadadada earned
  
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• It’s time to talk about the menopause… and freedom at last | Eva Wiseman

  19-05-2019 10:00
  An equalling out of sex hormones, a woman’s chance to explore her person-ness, the falling away of vanity… Eva detects a gleaming glamourThe menopause comes,” says Kristin Scott Thomas’s character in Fleabag, “and it is the most wonderful fucking thing in the world.” Despite a “crumbling” pelvic floor and a number of other horrors, she continues, “You’re free, no longer a slave, no longer a machine with parts. You’re just a perso
  
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• 'Instant calm to the soul': the magic of Cape Clear, Ireland

  19-05-2019 08:00
  Whether in search of peace, or adventure, this tiny County Cork island is a haven for escapistsCape Clear, Ireland’s most southerly island, has been my getaway for almost 30 years. It is the place where I forget which day of the week it is. It’s where I go to imagine a world without Brexit and Trump. The island has a spirit that brings instant calm to the soul. I once had the good fortune to live there for four months. It was then that I first began to write, finding the serenity to
  
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• We're following our noses by design

  19-05-2019 07:33 via winnipegfreepress.com
  In 2007, when Spence Levy started selling air — air that smelled good, to be specific — it wasn’t exactly easy.So, Levy trekked along Miami Beach’s famed Collins Avenue, visiting ......
  
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• Red ahead: the lip colour for everyone

  19-05-2019 07:00
  Red lipstick will suit you, if you find the right one. Plus, skincare for pigmentation problems, and body treatments to make you glowI accept – as sacrilegious as it is – that some women simply don’t like red lipstick. What I won’t accept is that it doesn’t suit you. They come in a plethora of undertones (orange, pink, blue, wine) and textures (matte, velvet, satin, glossy) and somewhere, there, trust me lurks your ultimate red lip. I could do a “how to choose
  
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• I’m 70, but I can’t stop my new partner from talking to other people | Dear Mariella

  19-05-2019 07:00
  If age teaches us anything, it’s that you can’t change other people, says Mariella. You may be wrong for each other, or you may need to adapt your behaviour The dilemma I am in my early 70s and met a wonderful man three years ago. He is a Spanish national and we have been away together on winter holidays, which have been marvellous. He is very outgoing and strikes up conversations with passers-by, fellow customers in a restaurant – anyone around when we are out. In Spain, altho
  
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• Citroën C5 Aircross: ‘An SUV that’s determined to smooth out your drive’ | Martin Love

  19-05-2019 07:00
  A uniquely effective suspension means this easy-going family car will cope with all of life’s little bumpsCitroën C5 Aircross
  Price £23,830
  0-62mph 10.5 seconds
  Top speed 117mph
  MPG 44.2
  CO2 118g/kmIn these bruisingly divisive times, there is one thing, at least, that we can agree on: potholes. “Craters”, as the tabloids call them, are a source of neverending dismay for drivers and cyclists. According to the Asphalt Industry Alliance, almost 1.7m potholes were filled
  
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• Nigel Slater’s vegetable stock and soup recipes

  19-05-2019 06:59
  A flavoursome broth to lift both soup and spiritsI have been in need of a good vegetable stock for some time. Not one of the delicate, vegetal liquids the colour of hay but something altogether deeper, richer and more ballsy. In other words, more like a brown meat stock. Such a broth would be immensely useful in my kitchen as a base for the heartier non-meat recipes that form the backbone of my daily eating, but also as something restoring to drink as you might a cup of miso. My gran would have
  
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• Coconut Tree, Cheltenham: ‘laid-back and on point’ – restaurant review

  19-05-2019 06:59
  Cheap and full of charm, the Coconut Tree captures the vivid flavour of Sri LankaThe Coconut Tree, 59 St Paul’s Road, Cheltenham GL50 4JA (01242 465 758). Also in Bristol and Oxford. Dishes £2.50-£8; wines from £17Eating well is an expression of normality. When we’re not in crisis, we eat well. When we’re not at war, we eat well. It’s also a way of reclaiming normality: of refusing to let the darkness win. It’s why I went to the Coconut Tree in Che
  
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• The edit: Light jackets – in pictures

  19-05-2019 00:45
  Take sunshine and showers in your stride with fringed leather or coloured denim…Continue reading...
  
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