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Well, actually

Living a good life in a complex world

Well Actually

  • Different antiperspirant deodorant with cotton on purple background. Skin care concept. copy space, top view<br>Different antiperspirant deodorant with cotton on purple background. Skin care concept. copy space

    Don’t sweat it: how to find an effective deodorant

  • Graphic illustration of naked woman with one pant leg on, in shades of red, peach, light blue and olive.

    Halfway there
    No sex drive and a ‘tanking libido’: how I redefined intimacy in midlife

    These days, sex is less like a straight line with an endpoint, and more like a series of loops and swirls
  • illustration of a woman holding a tablet with posts in the air around her saying things like 'ur cancelled'

    Why am I like this?
    Everyone’s so intolerant online. Am I right to stay silent?

    Call-out culture has left many of us afraid of posting. Africa Brooke offers suggestions for navigating online hostility
  • An illustration of two blank Polaroid pictures against a blue-and-white backdrop

    No pics, please
    Why do so many weddings have a ‘no photos’ rule?

  • Graphic illustration split down the middle into a pastel blue background with a juicy pink grapefruit on pastel blue, and a pink donut with rainbow sprinkles on a yellow background.

    The radical practice of eating what you want

  • An illustration of a woman with her hands held to her head in shame

    Can shame make you a better person?

  • man and a woman in business attire talking in a living room

    Emotional labor
    How business jargon entered our relationships

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Reclaim your brain

The toolkit

  • a person smokes cannabis

    California sober
    What does it mean and is it good for you?

  • Colourful flat lay view of different types of sliced fruits and vegetables on a pink background.

    The 30-plant challenge
    Experts say we need to eat 30 plants a week. This is how I fared

  • Black cup of coffee on the black and brown table among spilled roasted coffee beans.

    Coffee
    How much coffee is OK for me to drink in a day? I asked the experts

  • Fragrant plants are beautiful and smell good.

    Good scents
    Five eco-friendly ways to make your home smell great

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Columns

  • ‘Take a fraction of what you’d spend on Le Labo Rose 31 and buy yourself a bouquet; meditate on your own impermanence as it wilts.’

    Ask Ugly
    Signature scents are deeply appealing – but how else can I express ‘the self’?

  • An illustration of a female stretched across in her living room holding an iPad-like device watching a show

    Halfway there: a column about midlife
    How brilliant female British TV detectives helped me understand myself

  • ‘In late 2020 the cumulative toll hit and, after six months of working almost around the clock, I broke down at my computer mid-sentence.’

    Why am I like this?
    Is it possible to break the cycle of burnout for good?

  • A graphic illustration of a woman in bed wearing a bra, purple-and-black striped leggings, out of the red covers with one leg hooked over them.

    Halfway there: a column about midlife
    Perimenopause has brought chaos to my life – but also peace

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Health & wellbeing

  • Pretty latte art of a flower in the foam on the top of a cup of coffee.

    For seven years, I have been caffeine-free. Here’s how it has changed me

  • Emma Beddington

    I craved quiet. Then my sons moved out, dog died and hens were killed – and noise now feels necessary

    Emma Beddington
    • Phil Daoust has his brain scanned.

      Keep forgetting things? Worried about your brain? Here’s what I learned when I had mine scanned

    • Cath Hill, second from right, with the Manchester Survivor’s Choir in 2018.

      A moment that changed me: I survived a terror attack – and found healing through a choir

    • ‘A liberated rack isn’t ashamed, it does what it wants to do’ … Sarah Thornton at home in California.

      ‘Breasts are a serious political problem’: one woman’s quest to reclaim her chest

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Relationships

  • Will Stubbs and Merrkiyawuy Ganambarr-Stubbs in December 1994

    The moment I knew: she left $50 on my bed and a note that said ‘buy yourself another bottle of wine’

  • missionary position, from the feet

    This is how we do it: ‘I want missionary every night – but I’m trying to be more adventurous’

  • A composite photo of Laura and Paddy together, both smiling and wearing black.

    Blind date: ‘I’ve given up trying to understand the male psyche’

  • Judge 25th May - WEB

    You be the judge: my parents want to donate their old furniture to us – should my partner accept it?

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Food

  • OM Nigel Asparagus Feta Rolls

    Nigel Slater’s recipes for asparagus and feta rolls, and cream cheese and herb biscuits

  • Jacket potatoes with egg and tonnato sauce, from the book Simple, by Yotam Ottolenghi

    Ask Ottolenghi: how to jazz up a jacket potato

  • Tom Hunt's beans with sausage and broccoli

    How to turn leftover cooked sausage into a one-pot wonder – recipe

  • Ravneet Gill's Elderflower Lemon Pudding 012

    Ravneet Gill’s recipe for self-saucing elderflower and lemon pudding

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Puzzles

  • Alphabet spaghetti

    Crossword blog
    Cryptic crosswords: all on a plate – how often is the solution word in the clue itself?

  • Cryptic crosswords
    Cryptic crossword No 29,393

    • Quick crosswords
      Quick crossword No 16,866

    • Sudoku
      Sudoku 6,494 easy

    • Prize crosswords
      Prize crossword No2 9,392

    • Killer sudoku
      Observer killer sudoku

    • Thomas Eaton
      Which technology was popularised by Cher’s hit Believe? The Saturday quiz

    • Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
      Did you solve it? Gems from the vault of the National Puzzlers’ League

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