
Katherine Ryan on back-to-school and being a ‘geriatric parent’
The pregnant comedian and mum-of-three shares back-to-school tips and reveals her parenting resources, time and energy ‘are starting to feel it’
The pregnant comedian and mum-of-three shares back-to-school tips and reveals her parenting resources, time and energy ‘are starting to feel it’
The Wowcher Advent calendar mystery deal is the perfect gift for someone special or if you just fancied treating yourself.
Fed governor Lisa Cook is seeking a temporary restraining order against the president’s attempt to fire her Donald Trump ’s battle to exert control over the Federal Reserve faces a key legal test today, with a governor of the central bank seeking a temporary block on his extraordinary attempt to fire her. Lisa Cook sued the US president on Thursday , with her lawyers describing his attempt to dismiss her as “unprecedented and illegal”, and based on “pretextual” allegations. Continue reading...
Hawks on both sides have warned the US dispatch of three warships to patrol off the South American coast may be part of a regime-change operation – but is it? As US warships carrying cruise missiles and marines powered towards Venezuela ’s coastline this week, supporters of the South American country’s president, Nicolás Maduro , warned a dastardly imperialist plot for an Iraq-style invasion was afoot. “No one will lay their hands on this land!” Maduro thundered, calling on patriots to help repel the supposed regime change operation by joining his “Bolivarian militia”. Continue reading...
Developer Spooky Doorway is building a detective mystery full of Victorian spiritualism and pagan traditions, creating a lingering sense of dread that is hard to shake There are two types of horror – one that shocks you into more inventive ways to hide behind a pillow; and the other that creeps under your skin, quietly prickling the back of your neck and haunting you for weeks. The Séance Of Blake Manor falls into that second camp: an atmospheric take on an 1890s Irish murder mystery. You play Detective Ward, who has been sent to the titular Blake Manor to investigate the disappearance of Evelyn Deane two nights before a seance is due take place. Mystics from across the globe have gathered at the crumbling mansion to converse with the dead on All Hallows’ Eve, but are they really capable of doing what they say they can? And what was that shadowy figure? There’s more than one secret to unravel. Continue reading...
Nurturing everything from bacteria and fungi to worms is seen as essential to helping minimise use of chemicals and machinery Nick Padwick hunches over a microscope, examining a sample of compost he has made on his Norfolk farm. “Look at that bad boy! That’s a bacteria-feeding nematode!” he exclaims. “Stunning fungal hyphae.” Padwick, the farm manager at Wild Ken Hill since 2018, is part of a growing movement of farmers taking a deep interest in the microscopic life forms that their livelihoods depend upon. Under this approach to regenerative farming, nurturing diverse soil communities – from bacteria and fungi, to microscopic animals and worms – is seen as an essential prerequisite for growing healthy foods with minimal or no use of agrochemicals or soil-damaging machinery. Use microscopy to identify missing or imbalanced soil organisms. Create nutrient-rich compost from farm waste, such as straw and wood chips. Put this compost in mesh bags and steep them in water, like giant tea bags, to make extracts that can reintroduce beneficial microbes to depleted soils. Continue reading...
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We have seen it enough times from a press box to have an inkling when a Man United manager has passed the point of no return.