Saturday, March 15, 2025

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S5 E2: Shirley Ballas, dancer

This week, Grace heads out of her kitchen and into the home of dance legend Shirley Ballas to cha-cha-chat all things Comfort Eating. Shirley’s become TV royalty as head judge on the BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing, but she’d...

Full-time children: the twentysomethings who may never grow up

Name: Full-time children.Age: 21 and up.Appearance: Coming to a doorstep near you.What kind of job is “full-time child”? Just what it sounds like: being someone’s child, the whole time.How does one get into that sort of game? By default.By...

Comfort classic: Tamal Ray’s recipe for an easy tuna melt

This is a hangover from my student days; the wholesome, filling snack to which I’d treat myself on those rare occasions when I’d been diligent enough to go to the gym. The recipe stuck around long after the gym-going...

What became of the broken-hearted? Meet the unlucky in love, 1969

Was society getting sadder? On 10 August 1969, the Observer kicked off an investigation into ‘new aspects of unhappiness’ by talking to people who were unlucky in love. Music manager Eve Taylor, 53, worked with Sandie Shaw and Val...

My husband can’t relate to people and has lost his job

The question My husband has been unemployed for two years and I feel like he’s fading away. He’s proved himself to be good at what he does in most aspects of his chosen field. He’s worked at a senior...

‘Tech platforms haven’t been designed to think about death’: meet the expert on what happens online when we die

Tamara Kneese studies how people experience technology. She is a senior researcher at New York-based nonprofit Data & Society Research Institute. Her new book, Death Glitch, examines what happens to our digital belongings when we die, and argues that...

Debra Shaw: ‘No one knows my real age and I like that’

Soldiers in full military uniform found me and took me to the Capitol after I got lost in the White House. I was four years old, on a crowded public tour with my family and I let go of...

John Whaite’s gummy bears’ picnic – recipe

One hot summer, when I lived in a Manchester apartment, I couldn’t face the humidity of the streets to venture out for an ice lolly, so I lobbed a bag of gummy bears into the freezer. A few hours...

Tim Dowling: my sons have left the house, to be replaced by spiders

It is the season of spiders, when I am enveloped in webbing wherever I go, indoors or out, blundering through elaborate creations I cannot see.The spiders do not appear to get downhearted about this. What I destroy in the...

How to use up crystallised honey in homemade halva – recipe | Waste not

I’ve enjoyed halva since I was a child, and the main brands I buy are Cypressa and Sunita, both of which come in an open-ended carton that slides off to reveal a thin foil lid that produces a distinctive,...
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