4 d. ago Job opening at King Charles' Scottish palace offers unique perks despite modest pay

The Housekeeping Assistant will be based at the Palace of Holyrood House in Edinburgh, working 32 or 20 hours per week in flexible shift times

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5 d. ago I became a female solo traveller after my husband got diagnosed with dementia at 50

As cycling holidays surge in popularity, Caitlin Limmer, 53, shared the emotional journey that led her to take on three solo cycling adventures across Asia - a decision that she says has changed her life.

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1 week ago This is how we do it: ‘Trying for a baby has improved our sex life – we’re more adventurous’

Doug and Maggie feel as if they’ve had a relationship reset and are communicating more openly about sexHow do you do it? Share the story of your sex life, anonymouslyIt was like we’d pressed a reset button on our relationship Continue reading...

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2 w. ago I put the Married at First Sight ‘experiment’ to the test. The results are stark | Gideon Meyerowitz

I’ve become addicted to the show. But as a scientist I wonder: how many couples actually stay together?It has finally happened. After a decade of avoiding the show, my wife and I decided that we would try out the new season of Married at First Sight. We consume quite a bit of reality TV, so it’s not that we avoided it precisely, but something about the idea of watching people struggle to build a healthy relationship amid a storm of cameras and manufactured drama just never drew us in. At least until we watched Married at First Sight and realised it was actually kind of fun.Relationship drama makes for addictive viewing. But after watching most of a season of weird “marriages”, screaming matches and couch quizzes accompanied by deep and meaningful music, one part of the show has struck me as really weird. Everyone keeps referring to the saga as an “experiment”. From the narrator to the experts who counsel the hapless couples on their relationship dramas, the entire show seems to be c...

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2 w. ago I loved being a principal, but Australia has grown complacent about the growing violence directed at educators | Andy Mison

School principals are resilient but, in an alarming number of cases, their job harms them. We would not tolerate these conditions in other workplacesI’ve been lucky. I’ve enjoyed a rewarding career in education, including almost 15 years as a principal in the Northern Territory and the ACT. I’ve worked with wonderful teachers and administrative staff, and shared in the successes of hundreds of young people and their families as they grow and graduate high school, going on to further study, employment and life adventures.I’ve also experienced verbal and physical abuse, aggression and violence from students and their carers, directed at me and my colleagues in the course of my work as a school leader. I once regarded these occasional events as part of the job, normal in our frontline occupation. I now think we have grown complacent about the levels of violence toward a predominantly female workforce that we would not tolerate in other workplaces. As the latest data from the Australian...

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2 w. ago ‘Chasing a high through rave music got dark’: Aya on hexes, Huddersfield and her hardcore horror electronics

A revelation at Pontins fuelled the producer to avant garde acclaim. But with ‘sublime’ sounds came struggles with substances. Her intense new album peels back the plaster‘Kissed by a witch, I got hexed!” Aya howls through a storm of screaming electronics and bass groans on I Am the Pipe I Hit Myself With. The song revisits a time before Aya Sinclair was one of the UK avant garde’s most exciting talents – when she was still a Huddersfield teenager, newly into Christian rock. The music gave her “this tingly, bubbly sensation”, she says. “And someone said: ‘This is the holy spirit.’” The experience led her to join a Pentecostal congregation for a couple of years, but after confiding in a church friend about some “feelings” – Sinclair would later come out as a trans woman – she was “kicked out for being queer, essentially. I was given an ultimatum, to either closet myself or leave.” As she whispers in this track, over the quickening click of a Geiger counter, “they had me out on a witc...

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2 w. ago 'I fell for a man on Tinder, I found his lies then he said he was a murderer'

Ella had been alone for seven years when she met a businessman who seemed perfect, he promised her a life of adventure

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2 w. ago Tribe With Bruce Parry review – he loses his mind on drugs and it doesn’t disappoint

After a decade away, the adventurer is off to gain more precious insights into tribal life – from eating weevil larva to taking ayahuasca. It’s still absolutely classic telly It is, scarily, 20 years since Bruce Parry first brought Tribe to the BBC. The diffident but determined former Royal Marine visited Indigenous people in the world’s most remote places and, by living as one of them, earned a level of trust that previous documentary-makers had struggled to achieve. Parry was more patient, more respectful and more physically courageous than other white interlopers had been. He gained valuable insights into tribal life and the threats to it posed by modernity. Tribe itself was simply cracking entertainment, as involving as it was educational.Television’s sausage machine has a way of turning the most exotic ingredients into familiar comfort food and, although it took us to the farthest corners of the planet, Tribe soon established a reliable format. Parry’s return follows the winnin...

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3 w. ago British man, 21, struggling to find a job in Australia launches unique business doing all the chores people don't want to do themselves

George Redfern, 21, from the Wirral, Merseyside, started a business in Australia to do the jobs that people don't want to do themselves - including cleaning, gardening and grocery shopping.

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4 w. ago Unique job opening for a couple to experience life on adventurous off

A rare chance for a couple to embrace off-grid life on a remote Scottish island, is now up for grabs

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