DIY SOS: The Big Build Rating: Jay And Dom’s Home Fix Rating: Every time, it happens. The builders start work. The electrics go off, a floor comes up, maybe part of a roof disappears. After a couple of days, one of them yells, ‘Chriiiis!? Your eight-by-four lower brickwork ratcheting is gonna need some extra liner … Read more
Melt our hearts: Arabian Nights coffee chocolate cake with rose-scented ganache By Sue Quinn Published: 00:02 GMT, 14 February 2021 | Updated: 00:02 GMT, 14 February 2021 The flavours of the Middle East work gorgeously with cocoa. I’ve combined cardamom-infused Turkish coffee and the flavoursof Turkish delight in an intense chocolate cake. SERVES 8-12 PREP … Read more
Air travelers to Canada will have to quarantine in a hotel as they await the result of a coronavirus test, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Friday. Trudeau previously announced stricter restrictions would be imposed on nonessential air travelers in response to new, likely more contagious variants that have cropped up in the UK, South … Read more
CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night’s TV: Darcey swaps dancing shoes for boots to visit her Scottish roots By Christopher Stevens for the Daily Mail Published: 01:56 GMT, 9 February 2021 | Updated: 01:56 GMT, 9 February 2021 Darcey Bussell’s Wild Coasts Of Scotland Rating: Britain’s Lost Masterpieces Rating: You can’t get more English than Dame … Read more
Your Garden Made Perfect Rating: Ken Burns: Here and There Rating: Step away from the patio doors! According to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, 87,000 people need hospital treatment every year for injuries sustained while gardening. Cuts and falls are the most common disasters, but more than 3,000 accidents involve — yikes! … Read more
The Repair Shop Rating: Mend it for Money Rating: They said it would never be done. More specifically, my wife thought I’d never get round to it. There’s been junk boxed up in our garage, unseen since we moved in more than 20 years ago. But one of the bonuses of lockdown is that we’ve … Read more
On nights leading up to a full moon, people go to bed later and sleep for shorter periods of time, a new study reveals. US researchers observed the same variations in both the time of sleep onset and the duration of sleep among indigenous people living in rural settings and college students in urban settings. Sleep … Read more
Getting a good night’s sleep ‘clears the mind’ by removing potentially toxic proteins from the brain, study finds In the study, researchers examined fruit flies’ brain activity and behaviour The neurons that govern flies’ sleep cycles are surprisingly similar to our own During deep sleep, the flies repeatedly extended and retracted their snouts This pumping … Read more
Pregnant Joss Stone has admitted that she had sleepless nights over giving birth to her first child with her American musician boyfriend, Cody. Talking in a new candid interview, the singer, 33, who is due to give birth around March, said that she once burst into tears and worried: ‘What if I split in half?’ Joss … Read more
With most of us spending more time at home due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the boundaries between living, working and sleeping have become blurred. The unease around coronavirus is affecting sleep for a massive three quarters of people, according to a previous report by The Sleep Council. As such, health and wellbeing company, Mammoth, has … Read more