Life and style

These dishes are designed to make life easy; they can be batch-cooked and frozen, are packed full of flavour and areguaranteed crowdpleasers. The stew can include any seasonal vegetables you like, such as crisp asparagus, sweet peas or baby spinach. Chicken and spring greens pie I have a real soft spot for a good mash-topped …

£1 meals: Tom Kerridge’s budget recipes for chicken pie and spring stew | Chicken Read More »

In the sample clues below, the links take you to explainers from our beginners series. The setter’s name often links to an interview with him or her, in case you feel like getting to know these people better. Fooling is, happily, back. Ten years or so ago, a solver opening a paper on 1 April …

Crossword blog: the welcome return of April Fools’ puzzles | Crosswords Read More »

If you were to ask anyone interested in fashion to nominate a stylish male footballer in 2023, they might – depending on their generation – namecheck Héctor Bellerín, Dominic Calvert-Lewin or David Beckham. But for most men watching Match of the Day on a Saturday night, it would probably be Gary Lineker. The former footballer …

‘We all want to be Steve McQueen’: Gary Lineker on his MotD style, baggy jeans and who’ll win the league | Men’s fashion Read More »

After their three children grew up and left home, Margaret Thompson and her husband, Kenneth, stretched their legs together on walking holidays in Switzerland. In Interlaken, year after year, they would head up the mountain and watch the paragliders launch themselves into the sky. Back in town, in a large park, they watched them return …

A new start after 60: I dreamt of paragliding for 30 years. When I took to the skies at 80 I felt completely free | Health & wellbeing Read More »

In a large sunlit kitchen on Eumelia farm, an idyllic agritourism and wellness retreat set amid the endless olive groves of Greece’s southern Peloponnese, my classmates and I take turns using a long dowel-like rolling pin to stretch and roll balls of dough that we hope will become filo pastry. It won’t be the flaky, …

How agritourism is giving a helping hand on Greece’s farms | Greece holidays Read More »

Many heritage sites in Wales such as castles and palaces are enjoying a surge in visitor numbers after people developed an interest in Welsh history during the Covid pandemic. At the atmospheric ruins of the 14th-century Bishop’s Palace in St Davids, south-west Wales, there was an increase in tourists of almost 50% compared with pre-pandemic …

Covid-era revival of interest in Welsh history prompts visitor surge | Wales Read More »

Goldstone Hall Hotel, Market Drayton, Shropshire Set among the tranquil North Shropshire hills, Goldstone Hall boasts five acres of lovingly designed gardens, including a one-acre kitchen garden, one of the largest of its kind in the country. Rooms are comfortable rather than luxurious, but many have wonderful views across the gardens, and the restaurant serves …

Top 10 UK hotels and hideaways in landscaped gardens | Travel Read More »