There are plenty of things I’m snobby about but coffee isn’t one of them. While I admit I spend every Tuesday at a cafe that charges up to $30 for a coffee, I also have a cupboard full of instant and a long history of making low-quality home-brew iced coffees with anything from ginger beer…
Adrián Simancas had been paddling for two hours in the calm but icy seas of the Strait of Magellan, off the coast of Chilean Patagonia, when something massive emerged from the water and dragged him under. “I saw dark blue and white colours before feeling a slimy texture brush against my face,” the 24-year-old told…
Caviar and a caravan. Less than 100 days from an election, that’s what dominated probably the penultimate parliamentary week of this term – questions over finite numbers that both leaders know, but about which they’ve resisted answering questions. But the last gasps of parliament also point to how Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton will look…
Nothing exorcises the miserable spirit of January – dry or otherwise – like a Burns Night celebration. A whisky-fuelled supper to mark Robert Burns’s birthday is the perfect remedy to dreich midwinter days. It’s a bandwagon on to which I gladly jump each year, despite having no connection to Scotland whatsoever. And so should you….
Testing mattresses may not sound like an actual job, but if you want to do it properly, you have to put in the work. That means turning your living room into a trial lab, enlisting your nearest and dearest as guinea pigs and, yes, sleeping. The Guardian’s journalism is independent. We will earn a commission…
Historically, married women in the United States have done the lion’s share of their households’ laundry, cooking and cleaning. But that gendered norm appears to be shifting, with the gap between the time married women and men spent on such chores shrinking by 40 percent over the last two decades, researchers report February 6 in…