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Ask Hadley

How does one chose an appropriate photo for Twitter - and are we still supposed to care about how Kate Middleton dresses?

Asparagus salad

A speedy and simple treatment for new season asparagus
How fast fashion is a slow death

We now buy more cheap clothes than ever before. Lucy Siegle exposes a trend that will cost us far more than we imagine
Songs and words

A new book claims that 'signature' melodies and inflections of traditional rhymes prepare children's brains for language
- Parents and parenting
- Gransnet launches
New leaves for
old recipes

Are there books on your shelf or wishlist written for another generation but still relevant and inspirational today?

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Beauty tips: The importance of foundation - video (24min 07sec)

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Interiors: The brave and the bold (4 pictures)
Carry on campus (7 pictures)
Snooping around – in pictures (5 pictures)

Food & drink

Nigel Slater's Japanese recipes

From deep-fried fiddlehead ferns to sea bream ovaries, Japanese chefs create flavours that leave you awestruck
- Nigel Slater's classic rhubarb fool
Restaurant review: Barbecoa

A couple of hot rib dishes aside, Jamie Oliver's collaboration with a top New York barbecue chef is underwhelming

Health & fitness

A hidden epidemic or mass hysteria?

It's a mysterious condition that affects tens of thousands worldwide. But what is it? Will Storr investigates
This column will change your life

The science of happiness - how accurate can it really be, asks Oliver Burkeman

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Fashion & beauty

Key trends: Men's white

Gallery (13 pictures) Check out the designer look, then find out where to shop for it for less
The style clinic: the unstructured jacket

What's the best way to wear the new shirt/jacket hybrid?
- Five things I know about style: William Tempest

Women

Prada's attempts to storm Chinese market hit by feminist protesters

Women urge Hong Kong stock market to veto fashion house's flotation bid over discrimination allegations
Does your bra fit properly?

Free in-store fittings are now a standard service, yet a new survey has shown that most women are still getting their bra size wrong

Celebrity

Who's pulling Kerry Katona and Peter Andre's strings?

Meet Claire Powell of Can Associates, a multimedia celebrity PR phenomenon
Simon Cowell's new gameshow is bound to be a winner

Don't be fooled by Red and Black's roulette format – the Karaoke Sauron makes his own luck
- Glenn Beck is scared of Glee

More blogposts

27 January 1847: The roots of The Vegetarian Society

James Simpson writes on the benefits of a meat-free diet: The popular belief that flesh meat contains more nutriment than can be obtained from vegetable products is altogether mistaken
Are pink toys turning girls into passive princesses?

Kat Arney: The colour-coding of toys – pink for girls and blue for boys – reinforces pernicious gender stereotypes
Motorbikes in bus lanes – what's your view?

Sam Haddad: With a second London trial underway, should the capital fully adopt the policy used in Bristol, Belfast and the Netherlands?

Family & relationships

Born in the nick of time!

Viv Groskop meets Kasey Edwards, who found out at the age of 32 that she only had one year left to conceive
Dear Mariella

My husband (who is 11 years older than me) is desperate for a baby. I don't feel like I want a baby of my own. I'd like to adopt, but he wouldn't.

Homes & gardens

Last leap to summer

The fine froth of flowering cow parsley leads the way as the verges and hedgerows begin to throng with life
Save our seeds!

Patrick Wiebe reports on the big Brussels gathering of seed-saving activists

Craft

Knit your own corgi

Can you do justice to the Queen's famously hardworking favourites and produce a knitted corgi for the wedding of the year?
How to sew a fabulous collar

Huma Qureshi shows you how to revitalise a plain old T-shirt by creating a frilly, flouncy collar for it

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