Peel and thickly slice 2 large bananas. In a dry pan, toast 2 tbsp of flaked almonds over a moderate heat until golden, then set aside. Return the pan to the heat, add 50g of butter and let it melt. Add 90g of caster sugar to the butter and let it bubble, without stirring, but…
How is your sex life going? The Guardian is looking for couples to talk honestly – and anonymously – about what they get up to in the bedroom for the Saturday magazine’s much-loved This is How We Do It column. The point of this column is to tell truthful, un-sensationalised stories about sex, so we…
How do you stay healthy while living alone? Whether you’ve adjusted to living alone after a breakup, loss or children leaving home, or you’ve lived happily alone by choice but have occasionally fallen into patterns of behaviour that didn’t feel good, we’d like to hear from you. What has helped you build or maintain routines…
It was Paula Doyle’s best friend who suggested that her husband walk Doyle home. This was a Friday night in September 2019, and Doyle, then 46, a mother of five, had been at their house for a family party. Doyle had helped clear up at the end. It was 1am and she was the last…
PRADA A three-storey scaffold structure carpeted in an Art Deco-patterned carpet by costume designer Catherine Martin was the jaw-dropping set at Prada. Catwalk looks included caveman style, fur-like shearling collars and vests, clothing pierced through with jewellery and cowboy boots. Backstage, co-creative director Raf Simons described the visual mash-up of genres, which spanned corsages to…
In the listless early weeks of January – my resolutions for self-improvement already gone to the dogs – I was asked to conduct an experiment that those in my life who are over 40 deemed “lovely”, and everyone else regarded with unbridled horror: I was asked to spend a week picking up the phone and…