88 m. ago Survival and stoicism: stories of women born before the second world war

Christian Doyle’s series Quietly Getting On focuses on women in their late 80s and 90s, their memories of a wartime childhood and how they live nowAs a way of maintaining contact with my elderly neighbours during the Covid restrictions of 2020, we set up a project where each person held up a card showing the age they felt inside. From their life stories, a new idea formed in my mind.This is a generation of women who had experienced first-hand the impact of war on the domestic front, who had been evacuated to strangers across the country, not seeing their parents for months on end. Maybe these experiences created a different mindset; a resilience and stoicism, where the self is less important than being part of a community. Continue reading...

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88 m. ago Review: Laura Ashley China Rose Stand Mixer marries vintage charm with modern functionality

Available in two capacities - 4.5L and 6L - the mixer caters to pretty much any baking need

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2 h. ago Myles Smith on life after his viral hit ‘Stargazing’: ‘I don’t want to disappear overnight’

In less than a year, the singer-songwriter from Luton has amassed 23 million monthly listeners, a Brit award, and a dream gig supporting Ed Sheeran on tour. He tells Annabel Nugent he’s determined not to be another TikTok flash in the pan

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2 h. ago Notes to John by Joan Didion: Dispatches from the therapist’s chair are a guilty pleasure

Joan Didion, who died in 2021, never intended Notes to John to be published. They are, as the title intimates, notes to her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and they are about meetings with her psychiatrist, Dr Roger MacKinnon, over the course of a little more than a year, beginning in 1999. These 150 pages of notes were in her archive and, given that there wasn’t going to be any more Didion fiction or journalism, someone must have thought that this was a way to continue her story.

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2 h. ago One Club Row, London E1: ‘Battered stuff, things in buns, strong drinks: a thrilling, retro ride’ – restaurant review | Grace Dent on restaurants

They will feed you, water you, give you a good time and make you feel carefree and cossetedAs a name, One Club Row sounds a bit like the title of a 1990s lads’ mag, but it’s actually a purposely shabby-chic room above a pub in Shoreditch that serves martinis, oysters and schnitzels in a heady, tipsy, twinkly atmosphere that itself may well remind you of the 1990s. Or at least it will if you were “on the scene” back then. These days, the 90s are synonymous with louche, raffish semi-pandemonium, mainly because today feels so saintly in comparison. No 90s restaurateur ever offered reclaimed spud peelings as a starter or a kombucha-led, alcohol-free drinks flight to spare your liver, complete with an earnest lecture on zero-waste hospitality. Puritanism was definitely out there back then, yes, though mainly only in The Cranks Recipe Book. But mindfulness? Not so much.What One Club Row and similar London establishments such as the Devonshire in Piccadilly and the Plimsoll in Finsbury Par...

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2 h. ago Got a life problem that nothing seems to fix? The answer might be a ‘family constellations’ session

Already popular in the Netherlands and featured in a Netflix show, ‘family constellations’ are billed as a solution for stubborn life problems. Hannah Ewens goes along to a session to discover how inherited trauma, unconscious loyalty, and love are tangled in ways she never could’ve imagined

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2 h. ago Inside This Morning's Martin Lewis' life from TV wife and fraud backlash to family tragedy

Martin Lewis is a highly reputable figure on British television dishing out the best financial advice to consumers. We've taken a closer look inside his life

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8 h. ago Fulvia by Jane Draycott: The woman who outwitted Cicero and then spat on his corpse

In her new book, Jane Draycott tells how through her intelligence, political maneuvering and self-assurance, Fulvia took Rome by storm.

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8 h. ago The Sleep Room by Jon Stock: The top actress who was sedated and given electric shock treatment to cure anorexia

New book details how Celia Imrie was sent to a controversial Sleep Clinic where the therapy she and other vulnerable young women were given scarred them for life.

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8 h. ago Second World War veterans have memories of VE Day brought to life

Charity Blind Veterans UK released illustrations, stories and photographs which look to raise funds for war heroes living with sight loss.

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9 h. ago Meghan Markle blasted for 'crass and pompous' move as she 'treads on thin ice'

The Duchess of Sussex has been accused of being 'crass and pompous' after it emerged she used her HRH title again - despite having formally stepped back from royal life four years ago.

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10 h. ago FLOURISHING AFTER 50: I've just retired after losing my husband five years ago and I want to enjoy life again

This week, leading money educator Vanessa Stoykov helps a mum who is recently retired and wants to enjoy her life - but also feels guilty about her children's inheritance.

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11 h. ago I fell in love with the hunky man of my dreams...but before I knew it I was single and broke

If you truly believe marriage is for life, do some serious future proofing. Before you commit to spending the rest of your life with someone, make sure your financial goals align.

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11 h. ago Meghan Markle's 'pompous' move as she 'clings' to royal life four years after quitting

Meghan Markle has been accused of being 'pompous' for using her HRH title in a gift message four years after she and Prince Harry agreed to lose the style as part of their Megxit deal

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11 h. ago Emmanuel College admissions official accused of attempting to pay applicant, 17, for sex

The charge of attempted sex trafficking of a minor carries a sentence of 10 years to life in prison

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12 h. ago Duncan Ferguson's lowest moment of life as he asked 'how the hell had it come to this'

'I was 26 when I married Janine, who was a year younger, at the Anglican Cathedral in Liverpool on June 26, 1998. It was a 12.30 kick-off. Janine was late, but worth the wait.'

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13 h. ago Mum 'never say 'no' to second helpings of dinner' but life changing moment spurred her to change

A mum-of-two says she looks better than she did in her 20s after she ditched second helpings of dinner and clocked 10k steps a day to help her shed the mummy tummy

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13 h. ago Brits ditch luxury as most want room for washing machine and coat storage over swimming pool or home cinema

Dream pads no longer boast the luxuries of life, as Brits prefer creating their perfect abode with homely comforts like storage and an extra loo, a study has found

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13 h. ago ‘I just want to run for the hills’: Sopranos’ Joe Pantoliano reacts to life in Trump’s America

The acclaimed actor is soon set to join the cast of ‘The Last of Us’

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13 h. ago DUNCAN FERGUSON The humiliation of bankruptcy and the lowest moment of my life

Duncan Ferguson,the Everton hero, reveals how he went from riches to rags, finding himself trapped in millions of pounds of debt like many other football legends, and that being jailed for headbutting a player was not his only low point

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