Lifestyle - Saturday, June 6, 2026

Samantha Ross was suspicious about Adam’s sweet disposition. Then a surprising act of kindness brought her guard down • Find more stories from the moment I knew series It was the year 2000 and my belief in love was crushed. I’d been in a five-year relationship, only to find out my ex had cheated the entire time. In some small part, I saw it as my own fault – I’d always been attracted to proverbial bad boys. Adding...

The Guardian Lifestyle • 50 days ago

From spicy South African relish to Scottish tattie scones, food is an integral part of watching the beautiful game. Here’s how fans around the world fuel match day • International recipes inspired by the World Cup The biggest World Cup ever is surely going to mean the most ever watching parties around the world. With 48 countries competing, why not take inspiration from global cuisine to serve your friends and fam...

The Guardian Lifestyle • 51 days ago

To age in place, and live near each other, Sandra and Franca Di Diomete decided to build an interlocking home on Sandra’s tiny, odd-shaped lot.

Washington Post Lifestyle • 51 days ago

The carefree scene in the ancient Chinese city of Kashgar prompted the photographer to reflect of his own sources of happiness Kuanglong Zhang lives in Shenzhen, in the south of China, and was visiting the ancient Silk Road city of Kashgar when he took this photo. Close to the borders of Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Pakistan, it is ancient and landlocked; distinctly different from the modern port city he calls home....

The Guardian Lifestyle • 51 days ago

Supermarket sushi doesn’t have the best reputation, so which selection is decidedly fishy and which one should you roll with? • The best smoked salmon, tasted and rated Most supermarket sushi is so bad that it makes the fact that master sushi chefs in Japan traditionally train for 10 years or more seem entirely reasonable. That said, the products in this test aren’t all bad, though the bar is pretty low. My greate...

The Guardian Lifestyle • 51 days ago

The Amandaland actor on her statue phobia, what she’d like to say to her mum, and lusting after Keanu Reeves Born in Dublin, Philippa Dunne, 44, trained at the Gaiety School of Acting and co-founded a comedy group called Diet of Worms. Her TV work includes Derry Girls and This Is Going to Hurt. Since 2016, she has played Anne Flynn in the BBC sitcom Motherland and its spin-off, Amandaland, now in its second series...

The Guardian Lifestyle • 51 days ago

A week-long mountain trek with two young children felt like an ambitious undertaking – but they loved every minute It’s said the 19th-century Parisian flâneur , intent on not rushing past the beauties of the street, would take a tortoise on a lead to set the pace. I thought about this as my donkey bent his head to another thistle and I turned my attention to the view, waiting for him to finish. Every way I looked,...

The Guardian Lifestyle • 51 days ago

From the ‘Intransigents’ to Simple Comforts and Cookery Bible, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz 1 What began to tilt in 1178? 2 Which deep-sea fish attracts prey with a glowing lure called an esca? 3 Habitat 67 is a Brutalist housing development in which North American city? 4 Which founder member of the Football League no longer exists? 5 What was Barbara Castle’s 1969 plan to improve industrial relatio...

The Guardian Lifestyle • 51 days ago

Laurine, who works in forensics, meets Theo, a financial adviser. They are both 27 What were you hoping for? Love! Or someone new, great conversation, a free dinner and feature in my favourite Guardian column. Continue reading...

The Guardian Lifestyle • 51 days ago

Thirty years after my parents were pressured into placing me with an adoption agency, I finally reconnected with them. But it was nothing like the neat stories you see on TV One morning in late September 2023, I discovered by chance that my birth mother had been killed almost a year earlier. The revelation came while I was searching my work email for a stray message. In the bin folder, amid a slurry of irrele...

The Guardian Lifestyle • 51 days ago