6 h. ago The 27 habits that prove you’re no longer down with the kids and showing your age so are you past your time?

WHIZZING around the high street in your Lululemon yoga pants with a flat white in hand while you send a string of emojis to the latest gossip in Whatsapp feeling like old age hasn’t hit yet? Well, we have bad news. It turns out that while you thought you were being carefree and at one...

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46 h. ago Plumbing expert settles debate on having the heating on constantly in freezing temperatures

It's the age old debate when it comes to the time of year to turn on the central heating

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68 h. ago 'We wouldn't 'be in the building' if we didn't believe we can beat All Blacks'

Dewi Lake will take on the All Blacks for the first time this weekend, having beaten them at age-grade level before

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4 d. ago ‘Vast’ Bronze Age settlement uncovered for first time by archaeologists

Nicknamed the ‘City of Seven Ravines’, the 3,500-year-old settlement has ‘transformed’ historians understanding of the region

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4 d. ago The 27 signs you're officially past it: Pop culture expert REBECCA MAY reveals the lifestyle habits that prove you're no longer down with the kids

British brand expert Rebecca May has revealed the 27 passé lifestyle habits that indicate you're no longer ahead of the curve.

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5 d. ago Here in Sweden, the Vikings are back. And this time they’re searching for stability in a chaotic age | Siri Christiansen

I joined a ‘sacrifice’ ritual outside Stockholm – and found that the revival of Norse paganism reflects broader battles over identity and climate anxiety“Hail Thor!” The priestess and her heathens, standing in a circle, raised their mead-filled horns. We were gathered in an unassuming spot in a pine forest outside Stockholm. This was our temple, and the large, mossy stone before us was our altar. I was relieved to see that the animal-based sacrificial offerings were long-dead and highly processed. A bearded man reached his tattooed arms into his backpack and raised a red, horseshoe-shaped sausage to the sky. A goth girl unboxed a plastic tub of hammer-shaped cookies. The priestess offered me a handful of flaxseeds to toss on the altar, which was overflowing with gifts, apples and bottles of homemade mead.A dozen people had gathered for an autumn sacrifice to summon Thor, the hammer-wielding Norse god of harvests and storms. Many pleaded for him to bring rain, after a summer plagued ...

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9 d. ago Aston Villa’s Natalia Arroyo: ‘There was probably a little coach inside me when I was playing’

The Spaniard talks about her move to coaching, Barcelona and the injuries that ended her career earlyA 22-year-old Natalia Arroyo stood alone in what she describes as a “sad shower” and gutturally cried. It was the moment she knew her playing career had ended. The Spaniard had lain on the grass shortly beforehand, her anterior cruciate ligament torn again. It was “super emotional”, she says, but she was done.Arroyo, speaking at the expanded training base of an Aston Villa side who last Saturday secured a notable win at Manchester United, joined Barcelona at the age of nine, though at the time there was no real relationship with the main club. She graduated to the B team, captained that side and was one of three 16-year-olds to force their way into the senior set-up. That experience has taught her how to integrate players. Continue reading...

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1 week ago The secret to a long and healthy life, by PROF ROB GALLOWAY. I've treated thousands, and this is what your body must be able to do for your age. If you can't it's time to change NOW

No pain, no gain we are told. But that's absolute rubbish. And a dangerous mantra at that, putting the rest of us off exercising. Which is bad news for our health - and the health of the nation.

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1 week ago Charli xcx: House ft John Cale review – haunt me, then! An elegant, brutal taste of the Wuthering Heights OST

(Atlantic) Featuring a lugubrious monologue from the Velvet Underground legend, its jagged strings are more reminiscent of that band than anything on BratWhen Charli xcx says her first new material in more than a year is “something entirely new, entirely opposite” to the sound she pursued on the era-defining Brat, she isn’t joking. Taken from the soundtrack to director Emerald Fennell’s forthcoming adaptation of Wuthering Heights, the darkly gothic House bears almost no relation in sound or mood to the contents of Brat: it was, she says, inspired by John Cale’s description of the sound of his old mob the Velvet Underground as “elegant and brutal”.Always skilled and generous at collaboration, here Charli xcx cedes two-thirds of the track’s vocal to Cale. He delivers a monologue – oblique and initially conversational, it turns increasingly ominous – in a voice that’s rich, sonorous and, to a certain kind of music fan at least, immediate recognisable. Weathered by time at age 83, it’s ...

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3 w. ago Do you have a ‘normal’ amount of friends? Here’s how to work it out

Dunbar’s Number, the theory that we are only capable of having 150 friendships at any one time, remains surprisingly robust in the digital age. Helen Coffey investigates whether ignoring in-built limits means stretching ourselves too thin, and why social media shouldn’t make us feel guilty about losing touch

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