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Well, actually

Living a good life in a complex world

Well Actually

  • illustration of person wearing blue top sits at green chair and looks to the left

    Why am I like this?
    Why do I feel like I’m stuck in a ‘waiting room’, hoping for my life to get started?

  • Two young women standing with guitars.

    Friendship
    ‘She is my soulmate. I’d do anything for her’: readers on their best friends

    Readers tell us about the best friends who have stuck with them through the good, bad, boring and haircuts
  • An illustrated graphic of a woman laying down in a chair crying while another woman behind her looks at a long receipt

    Personal finance
    Anxious about money? Five financial therapists share their advice

    Money is emotional. Financial therapists can help make sense of these feelings, from budget plans to money scripts
  • A collage features screenshots of three different people doing quadrupedal movement training, crawling on the ground and doing handstands

    Is moving like an animal the secret to good health?

  • Three people sit on a couch as they look at each other and talk

    Is neuroticism affecting your relationship? Don’t stress

  • millennial illo

    ‘Will I ever retire?’
    Millennials wonder what’s on the other side of middle age

  • Crowd of abstract diverse adult people in modern vibrant flat colors

    What is social health?
    The little-known idea that could make all the difference

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Reclaim your brain

The toolkit

  • A sunscreen’s SPF, or sun protection factor, indicates how much protection a product offers.

    Sun season
    What is SPF and how much sunscreen do you really need? Experts answer

  • 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

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Columns

  • A graphic illustration in sepia tones of a light-skinned woman with long, dark hair, kneeling in a sexually suggestive manner wearing a bathing suit.

    Ask Ugly
    The state of the bush – how should I be styling my pubic hair?

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

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

  • 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?

  • ‘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’?

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Health & wellbeing

  • friends in casual summer wear lying in circle on the colourful rug in the park having fun and making a group selfie

    Head lice are everywhere. Are selfies to blame?

  • Phil Daoust, holding an ice-cream cone, reclines in a deckchair in the park in the sunshine

    Do be a quitter! How I broke my exercise streak – and smashed my fitness goals

    • Emma Beddington

      I am sober curious – but a little alcohol is still valuable to me

      Emma Beddington
    • No to physical exfoliation

      The happy microbiome: how to nourish all of yours - from mouth to gut to vagina

    • A woman with tousled hair dreams as she sleeps

      One night I’m a murderer, the next my husband’s having an affair. Why do we have the dreams that we do?

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Relationships

  • A woman in black and white, screaming at the top of her voice

    All the rage: women are furious – and repressing it can ruin our lives

  • Illustration of two naked men in an embrace while listening out for anyone coming to the front door

    ‘Our first sexual encounter was a mess. We were so anxious, neither of us could get an erection’: This is how we do it in Nigeria

  • Illustration of a naked man and woman behind a DNA spiral

    ‘It is routine to check whether you are related to a romantic partner before you get serious’: This is how we do it in Iceland

  • Illustration of a naked man and woman who are kissing while blindfolded

    ‘Most of the flirting is virtual – you sit at a computer and talk to girls online’: This is how we do it in China

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Food

  • Thomasina Miers' valentine's Green Brunch Eggs 016

    Up your egg game: new ideas for brunch

  • OM Nigel Courgettes Butterbeans Ndju

    Nigel Slater’s recipe for courgettes, butter beans and ’nduja

  • Rachel Roddy's biscotti occhi di bue or bullseye biscuits 1167

    Rachel Roddy’s recipe for bullseye biscuits

  • OM Nigel Carrot Cucumber Pickle

    Nigel Slater’s recipes for carrot and cucumber pickle, and gooseberry flapjacks

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Puzzles

  • A stack of jellies.

    Crossword blog
    Cryptic crosswords for beginners: one thing on top of another

  • Cryptic crosswords
    Cryptic crossword No 29,425

    • Quick crosswords
      Quick crossword No 16,898

    • Sudoku
      Sudoku 6,536 medium

    • Prize crosswords
      Prize crossword No 29,422

    • Killer sudoku
      Observer killer sudoku

    • Thomas Eaton
      What links Pripyat, Wittenoom and Fordlândia? The Saturday quiz

    • Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
      Did you solve it? Try this triple Tetris teaser

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