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Whichever week you choose to visit, Amsterdam nails December. Already underway, there’s the Amsterdam Light Festival to make the city sparkle, and mid-month, the brown cafés pouring bock beers are at their cosiest, while on New Year’s Eve the city residents light firecrackers en masse. And in the heart of the chic Nine Streets neighbourhood, The Pulitzer makes the perfect festive base. It is housed in 25 canal houses linked by lifts, passages and a stunning glass-walled courtyard for a truly unique stay. Come the last week of November, the wonderfully eclectic interiors by creative director Jacu Strauss, are given a new pièce de résistance in the form of the courtyard Christmas tree. This year’s was designed by Jenny Packham, adorned with giant pearl ‘earrings’. The perfect place for a fes...

Have you ever noticed how your best-laid plans often fade by February? That's because traditional goal-setting misses something crucial: the connection between your deepest values and daily choices.In this opening session of The Bigger Life Festival, wellbeing expert Ciara McGinley shares powerful visualisation and intention-setting practices that actually work. No 5am starts or rigid routines required – just clear, practical tools to help you map out a purposeful 2025.Uncover your core values through focused visualization techniquesCreate a practical roadmap that aligns your everyday decisions with your goals so you can live more intentionally Master a versatile visualisation tool for moments when you need clarityIdentify concrete actions you can take today toward your desired futureCulti...

“Politics, and society in general, is becoming more polarised, and the period between 2015 and 2019 saw many political happenings that were extremely divisive — the Brexit referendum, Trump being elected in the US, Corbyn becoming leader of the Labour Party,” says Dr Natasha McKeever, says Dr Natasha McKeever, a philosophy and ethics lecturer at the University of Leeds and co-director of the Centre for Love, Sex and Relationships alongside Dr Luke Brunning. “Politics was very much at the forefront of many people’s minds during that period, and many felt the need to decide which side of various debates they were on.” Source link

The festive tunes are being blasted in shops, the wreaths are starting to hang from doors and the Black Friday sales have signalled that it's time to start checking off that gift list. Which can only mean one thing: Christmas is coming. So why not throw yourself headlong into the cheer and visit some of London's most impressive trees courtesy of the chicest hotels in town?As is tradition, the city's landmark stays have pulled out all the stops with stylish tree collaborations with art and fashion folk, custom scents — or in the case of Annabel's and Claridge's — a totally alternative approach, with trees that don't even resemble a tree. Here are the chicest spruces and other light-wrapped spectacles on display for 2024.The Goring Belgravia-based The Goring looked to A Christmas Carol to in...

When it comes to choosing a cleanse, making sustainable choices presents tension between choosing what’s best for ‘we’ and what’s most convenient for ‘me’. Make the most of a wellness week at home by signing up for a cleanse where you just drink fresh-press, nutritionist-designed juice programmes for three to five days. The jury’s still out on whether skipping solids in favour of an all-liquid diet is the most sensible regime, but for many giving our digestive systems a rest feels like a a great way to detox and reset with a concentrated intake of vitamins, antioxidants, and phytonutrients — and it’s more nourishing than an Ozempic approach. When it comes to bring more eco, Presscription Juice is a London-based brand which delivers without any single-use plastic bottles (just be sure to re...

But we’re not actually meeting to discuss the election. Legend is in London for a show to promote two milestone releases. The first, My Favorite Dream, dropped in late summer and marks his music for children debut, even featuring a track with vocals from Teigen and their eldest children, Luna, eight, and Miles, six — ah, there’s that wholesome family man again. The whole thing may sound a bit twee, but with production by Sufjan Stevens and Legend’s old-soul vocals, it’s a record that still has the potential to charm adult listeners. Besides, following the couple’s highly-publicised miscarriage in 2020 and the subsequent arrival of their two youngest children, Esti and Wren, in 2023, for Legend, the album serves a greater purpose. Source link

I’ve just recovered from a virus. A trifling one in the grand scheme of things, but I was nonetheless in bed for two solid days feeling sorry for myself. Between fever dreams, I scrolled on my phone for health advice. An insane thing to do while not quite sound of mind you may think – and you’d be right, because it was during one such session that I stumbled across the news of what’s being dubbed a quad-demic, aka what sounds like a hellish constellation: Covid-19, flu, norovirus, and respiratory syncytial virus (in layman’s terms: pretty much a cold). After that, I found myself down the rabbit’s hole. Apparently on the rise, Boots have launched a private RSV vaccination service to help reduce the likelihood of those most at risk, including the elderly and babies, from getting it. But what...

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Or then again, it might be because he’s such a stand-up guy. From fixing potholes to mucking around with toy trains, there’s a lot to love about the veteran crooner – and that’s before we get into the seemingly never-ending range of hits that have spanned decades.With Stewart getting ready to play the Legends slot next year, here’s a list of reasons (as if we needed any more) why we love him so.Living in the Essex countryside can be a dangerous game for a man who has a massive sports car collection. “Because of the potholes on our roads, I may have to find new owners for them,” Stewart moaned during one interview, but there’s also the second option: taking matters into his own hands. Stewart has actually carried out road repairs to the potholes around his house in Harlow: the videos of hi...

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