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Tips
Coming home to drooping leaves is avoidable. Match the watering method to the length of the trip, test it before you leave and most houseplants will barely notice you were gone.
4 min
Guide
A calm walk through the house before you leave means fewer worries on the beach. Kitchen, bathroom, plugs, plants and security, one room at a time.
3 min
Technology
For decades, television in many German flats simply came out of the wall. The coax socket came with the flat, its cost was folded into the yearly service-charge bill, and few tenants…
2 min
Tips
Two pod devices can look almost identical and still feel completely different in use. The reason sits in parts most people never see: the coil, the wick and the path the air…
3 min
Technology
Most working days contain a surprising amount of shuffling: sorting messages, rewriting the same kind of email, hunting for a file, turning a messy call into a list of actions. Artificial intelligence…
2 min
Tips
A safari in Tanzania can mean canvas walls and a lantern, or a suite with a deck that looks straight onto a waterhole. Many travellers want the comfort, but they also want…
2 min
Sport
Being the other club in Barcelona has never been easy. RCD Espanyol has spent its long history sharing a city with one of the most famous teams on earth, and that has…
2 min
Tips
When a flood recedes or a storm passes, attention goes first to people: rescue, medical help, shelter. Very quickly, though, relief work turns into a logistics problem. Supplies need somewhere dry and…
2 min
Tips
Tiles shape a bathroom more than almost anything else. They set the colour, decide how bright the room feels and do the hard work of keeping water away from walls and floors.…
2 min
Tips
The word chandelier once conjured up crystal drops in a hotel lobby or a stately dining room. That image has faded. Today the same name covers slim brass rings, clusters of glass…
2 min
