lifestyle
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Modern tribes: the media boycotterI couldn’t live with myself if I agreed to go out with someone who read the Sun or the Fail or the Express or Telegraph
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What links hedgehogs, dormice and bats? The Weekend quizFrom a billy goat to Isaiah Berlin, test your knowledge with the Weekend quiz -
Saying goodbye to 20 years of family lifeAfter 20 years in the family home, and with their children now grown up, Cherrill Hicks and her husband decided to downsize. But how to say goodbye to two decades’ worth of life and love?
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It’s the children’s first Christmas without their mumPlanning to make it as good as it can be has banished my worries about redundancy
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Beauty: the best bath productsMy proclivity for a bath has evolved from habit to addiction in response to this godawful year
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Sri Lanka’s best food and where to eat itChef Jon Lewin reveals his favourite places around the island for feasting on rich, dark, deeply flavoured curries of fish, goat, pork and more
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Don't do that, do this: dodging the crowds in Sri LankaKandy, Sigiriya and Yala may be stunning but you’ll have to share them with thousands of other tourists. We pick equally alluring but less-visited alternatives to the main honeypot sites
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Sri Lanka's best new hotels, hostels and cottagesA tea plantation bungalow, surfer hostel, cottage near the beach and off-grid lodge are among our picks of great new places to stay in Sri Lanka
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Savour Sri Lanka: sights, sunshine and beaches – away from the crowdsSri Lanka is on the brink of a tourism boom with big hotel chains rushing to open luxury resorts. But venture off the beaten track a little and you will find deserted shores, natural beauty and little-visited temples
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Felicity Cloake's top 10 Christmas cooking cheats – recipesCan’t face a lot of last-minute, late-night cooking? Then use these shortcuts, from an easy Scandi smörgåsbord to perfect mince pies
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Yotam Ottolenghi’s sweet treats for the Christmas table – recipesFour brilliant bakes to make the home cook the star of the show this Christmas, from festive biscuits to celebratory puddings
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Family life: A feast my refugee father never forgot, When I’m Sixty-Four, my mother’s kimchiReaders’ favourite photographs, songs and recipes
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Readers’ recipe swap: cranberriesReaders’ recipe swap: Your recipes for a salad, tart, pickle and sponge cake show there’s more to cranberries than mere juice
techology
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No Man's Sky: Foundation update – a solid base to build onJordan Erica Webber plays the new modes in No Man’s Sky and finds something for everyone
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How can I use a local account in Windows 10?Graeme was using a local account and needed Microsoft account to re-activate his copy of Windows 10. He would now like to go back to a local account
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Event: the Guardian Games review of the year 2016Games editor Keith Stuart is joined by guests including Simon Parkin, Ellie Gibson and Rhianna Pratchett to discuss a crazy year in gaming – and prizes galore!
regulars
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ExperienceExperienceExperience: I fell down a canyonI tried to stay positive. But there was nobody around – it was the middle of December, in the middle of nowhere
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This column will change your lifeThis column will change your lifeHow to talk to strangersPeople are happier when they talk to strangers, even when they predict they’ll hate it
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The crushThe crushWhy I love… Michelle ObamaI watched an arena of people swoon over her. It was difficult not to join them
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StylewatchStylewatchStylewatch: Spike Lee's fashion filmThe director has shot a short for Moncler: crisp and full of purpose, it’s style as a story
advice
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Dear MariellaDear MariellaI dislike my lazy adolescent stepdaughterA woman complains her husband’s teenage daughter is too busy taking selfies to help out. Mariella Frostrup suggests ways of trying to befriend her
people
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We live together, but my sister and I are like strangersWe seem so different now that we are adults, and I long for a return to the closeness we had as children. Annalisa Barbieri advises a reader
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Where do we go? Where is the hope?The senator and the film-maker discuss Trump, where Clinton went wrong – and how to make a difference in 2017
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FarmersOnly.com founder on why rural Americans need their own dating siteJerry Miller’s website has attracted five million subscribers based on premise that urbanites cannot relate to farming lifestyle: ‘City folks just don’t get it’
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Why male beauty treatments are growingMore and more men are opting for blow-dries, manicures and waxing. And, with beards on the way out, next year will be all about the clean shave
the big picture
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Traditional French santonsSantons are traditional hand-coloured terracotta figurines usually set in Christmas nativity scenes
John Simpson: ‘Most embarrassing moment? Revealing my bright blue underpants in front of the Queen’