Lifestyle - Saturday, June 20, 2026

At the beginning of her relationship with Dave, Barbara Reszke was sceptical. But when he joined her in Mexico, a wave of relief and excitement washed over her Find more stories from the moment I knew series In 1992, I travelled from Adelaide to Poland to reconnect with my extended family. One afternoon, I came across a newspaper advertisement for the Warsaw Summer Jazz Days festival. On a whim, I decided to go, h...

The Guardian Lifestyle • 36 days ago

The ice cream, panzanella and pasta our colleagues can’t wait to make all season long.

Washington Post Lifestyle • 37 days ago

We’re well into strawberry season now, but which punnets are the pick of the crop and which hit a sour note? • The best supermarket strawberry jams, tasted and rated Back in 1994, I used to pick strawberries in Dorset to earn extra pocket money. It was gruelling but delicious work. We’d shuffle on our hands and knees down furrowed rows of plants, picking those beautiful, fat red berries and trying not to eat too m...

The Guardian Lifestyle • 37 days ago

“I will foster until the child has somewhere to go,” said foster father Peter Mutabazi. “If there is no one else, I want to be their final dad.”

Washington Post Lifestyle • 37 days ago

The furniture designer turned photographer was drawn to the colourful geometry of a multistorey car park in Japan Takeshi Aruga was en route from hospital back to his home in Okegawa, Japan, when he took this photograph. He’d had a consultation with a dermatologist, and while his house was a couple of miles away, good weather encouraged him to walk. Along the way, he passed PAPA Ageo, a sizeable shopping cent...

The Guardian Lifestyle • 37 days ago

The Brazilian city is welcoming a record number of foreign visitors, who are drawn to the beaches, the dining scene and the drone videos on favela rooftops.

Washington Post Lifestyle • 37 days ago

The artist on his need for order, an embarrassing Christmas costume, and the people he hopes to meet in heaven Born in British Guiana (now Guyana), Frank Bowling, 92, moved to the UK aged 19 and did national service in the RAF. In 1962, he graduated from the Royal College of Art with the silver medal for painting. He moved to New York in 1966, where he was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship, and exhibited his “map pa...

The Guardian Lifestyle • 37 days ago

From Dunbar and Shakespeare to Free the Weatherfield One, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz 1 How many times does the sun rise each year at the north pole? 2 Which board game inspired the creation of QR codes? 3 Five of the six cataracts of the Nile are in which country? 4 In what decade did Germany print a 100-trillion Mark note? 5 Who warned of a “global heat trap” and “climate instability” in 1988? 6 W...

The Guardian Lifestyle • 37 days ago

The vibrant port city offers a more relaxed and budget-friendly base for exploring this beautiful coastline by train and ferry The ferry from Salerno to Amalfi town was set to take about 35 minutes, and we were debating whether to risk the windswept top deck, fearful our packed lunches might fly into the Tyrrhenian Sea. (My father and I were taking a pragmatic approach on our Italian holiday, opting for light midd...

The Guardian Lifestyle • 37 days ago

We’re trying to buy an electric car. But my bank and the showroom ‘manager’ have other ideas It is a rainy Monday morning and my wife and I are in a car dealership about a mile from home, walking around a shiny new vehicle and peering into its windows. “It looks bigger than our car,” she says. Continue reading...

The Guardian Lifestyle • 37 days ago