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The Guardian Lifestyle • 14 days ago

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The Guardian Lifestyle • 14 days ago

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The Guardian Lifestyle • 14 days ago

Using a rotisserie chicken makes this salad an ideal quick and low-effort summer lunch or dinner.

Washington Post Lifestyle • 14 days ago

Too hot to sleep? From temperature-regulating mattress toppers to a fan quiet enough for the bedroom, here are our best buys for sweaty nights – and what to avoid • The best fans, tested If there’s anything more uncomfortable than enduring a heatwave in Britain, it’s sleeping through one. But hot nights are only going to get more common if the climate crisis continues its long march. While Britons are already accu...

The Guardian Lifestyle • 14 days ago

“Everyone here has greatness inside of them waiting to be unleashed,” Prince Allen Weeks told his fellow graduates in New York.

Washington Post Lifestyle • 14 days ago

Electronic scales are a non-negotiable, say connoisseurs. Add a pinch of patience, some trial and error, and you, too, can master the French press What’s the best way to make coffee using a French press? Mine always ends up too watery or too strong. Yoanna, St Andrews, Scotland “Coffee is one of those rabbit holes where it really depends how much money and time you want to spend,” says Ben Kovar, head of coffee at...

The Guardian Lifestyle • 14 days ago

This pretty little plant is carnivorous, so when placed next to plants affected by the insect pest it can be an effective living flypaper The problem The fungus gnat is the pest that just keeps coming. You dry out the soil, set up sticky traps, maybe even reach for the hydrogen peroxide, and just when you think you’ve have won, they’re back. The adults are harmless but maddening, drifting around your face and layi...

The Guardian Lifestyle • 14 days ago

With three ways to cool down and a cold plate that can lower skin temperature by up to 9C, Shark’s latest fan is a standout if you can justify the cost • The best handheld fans, tested When I first wrote my guide to the best handheld fans in 2025, familiar electronics brands in the space were hard to come by. But, like buses, two have arrived at once this summer. The Dyson HushJet Mini Cool provided plenty of powe...

The Guardian Lifestyle • 14 days ago

The owners of Teffont House are aiming for modern rural hospitality that puts guests at the heart of village life Walking into the Orangery at Teffont House during the golden hour, the restaurant is glowing. Sunlight falls across cocktails the colour of spun sugar, spills on to a terrace trailing constellations of fleabane, and bounces off spoons sinking into raspberry trifles. What really gives the room its spark...

The Guardian Lifestyle • 14 days ago

Sweet, herby tomatoes on crisp puff pastry, followed by a dessert that’s both fruity and floral – this is seasonal eating at its most delectable Summer has to be the favourite season of any chef. I am so spoiled for choice right now with the bounty of beautiful British produce over the warmer months that I change the menu almost daily, so I don’t miss out on the chance to use all of it. If only the weather would k...

The Guardian Lifestyle • 14 days ago

The collision was catastrophic. Jane Ouartsi suffered a fractured collarbone, two spinal fractures, a broken femur that took three operations to fix, and she had to learn to walk again like a baby. Why has no one taken responsibility for her life-changing injuries? As Jane Ouartsi walked across a pedestrianised square in central London, on a Friday evening in early August three years ago, she linked arms with her ...

The Guardian Lifestyle • 14 days ago