Life & Fitness

Noelle McEntee wants you to know that wills and trusts are not just for old, rich people. “You don’t need a butler and a rod iron fence to need an…

My parents got divorced four years ago, at which point my brother and I were both in our 40s, and our parents almost 70. They broke up after my mother…

The Apple Watch has been around for a decade, so it’s safe to say you’ve already heard the evangelism from fawning owners: fitness tracking for everything from running to rowing,…

A beefy USB charger with half a dozen ports can be great for charging your laptop, phone and even USB bike light all at once, but the real heroes are…

“I’m like a big giant sieve of history and I just turn it into the clothes,” said Nigel Cabourn of the inspiration for his decades of quietly influential designs for…

Prime Day is the wild west of online shopping. For every genuinely great deal, there are about seven duds dressed up in “best of” graphics. To prevent you from wasting…

Kitty Travers’ white peach and blackcurrant splits (pictured above) During a recent traffic jam, on a day so hot it felt stagnant and seemingly eternal, I found myself in a…

I wrote this from very sunny Corfu, while Britain enjoyed – or suffered, depending on your tolerance – a full-blown heatwave. Dyson’s new HushJet Mini Cool personal fan (£99.99) temporarily…

It was a sultry evening in early June, and I was heading to a party on the other side of London. The journey by tube takes an hour, so my…

Our bodies are incredible machines, but we can take the mechanics for granted until something goes wrong. How can we maintain healthy joints throughout life and avoid surgery? Here, rheumatologists…

Having made too much parmesan cream for mortadella sandwiches the other week, the rest was carried over from one column to the next, and a recipe for pasta with courgettes…

The prosecution: Annabel double quotation markI don’t want to get his food on my face when I kiss him, and I don’t want him looking silly in public Teddy has…

Flat fields of poppies and ox-eye daisies stretch out to a wide horizon. There are butterflies, vetches, salad burnet. Skylarks sing overhead and a cuckoo calls from the trees near…

Thursday quiz fans inundated our mailbox with at least two messages pointing out that John Oliver had opened his HBO show discussing the problem of feral hogs, of which there…

When I carried my beautiful two-month-old puppy into our home for the first time, I couldn’t have imagined the scene six months later, as I led her through my local…

Aurosó took a break for a while but they’re back making super low-sugar, high-cocoa content chocolate and I loved the 90% cocoa Candied Orange Florins, an excellent chewy treat, like…

Jeans and a nice top is a tried-and-tested formula when it comes to dressing for an evening out. It is the little black dress of real life. A local dinner,…

Fashion brands were tuned to the weather forecast in Paris in the run-up to the menswear shows this week – and aware temperatures would reach 40C on Wednesday. This weekend…

Prime Day is the wild west of online shopping. For every genuinely great deal, there are about seven duds dressed up in “best of” graphics. To prevent you from wasting…

Every summer, Amazon entices sweaty consumers with steep discounts on everything from slushie machines to tower fans in a tradition appropriately known as Prime Day. But you don’t need to…

It’s the longest night of the year and I’m uncomfortably close to a lot of strangers, queueing to eat something I’m not used to seeing on a menu – brushtail…

Sun-starved remote workers like me would much rather toil on spreadsheets outside now that summer has come to the northern hemisphere. But wifi seldom cooperates in the great outdoors. Zoom…

Flossing can be yucky. I hate sticking my fingers in my mouth, dealing with icky strings or stabbing the gaps between my teeth with those little plastic swords that pile…

Health Canada says 34 Canadians who may have had exposure to Andes hantavirus related to the MV Hondius cruise ship have now completed their self-isolation and monitoring period. The one…

My mom is the model boomer. At 77 years old, she runs her interior design business, organizes a book club, plays pickleball and dominates in mahjong. She is the picture…

Many non-Amazon retailers are now offering Prime Day deals – and one of those best deals happens to be exclusive to Guardian readers. Field Company made the premium skillet that…

Could it be time to consider the celeriac? If you’re looking for a tasty and left-of-field taco combo for the cooler months that’s full of flavour, low on cost and…

Health Canada has approved weight-loss drug Zepbound for treating obstructive sleep apnea in adults with obesity. The department confirmed that the authorization granted on June 11 makes Zepbound the only…

In temperatures close to 40C, most of Paris would have loved to go to the beach this week. Guests at the Louis Vuitton show got the look at least –…

Over- and under-ripe strawberries have opposite problems but the same solution: roast them. This intensifies their flavour, and also allows you to add sugar to sweeten flavourless, under-ripe fruit, while…