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Alexandra Shulman discovers how everyone can be a global chef thanks to ingenious video cook-alongs 

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World tour of food you do in your own kitchen: Alexandra Shulman discovers how everyone can be global chefs thanks to ingenious video cook-alongs A Cook’s Tour sees participants get a box of ingredients sent to their door  The box is accompanied by instructions and a live video link to a cook-along They are guided … Read more

Go ape! Ingenious monkeys use power line as a zip wire to whizz between buildings in India 

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Go ape! Ingenious monkeys use power line as a zip wire to whizz between buildings in India Two brave monkeys used an electricity line as a zip wire in Udaipur, India Line allowed them to easily travel between buildings in footage from March 9  Showed off their impressive balancing skills and one even slid down … Read more

Go ape! Ingenious monkeys use power line as a zip wire to whizz between buildings in India 

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Go ape! Ingenious monkeys use power line as a zip wire to whizz between buildings in India Two brave monkeys used an electricity line as a zip wire in Udaipur, India Line allowed them to easily travel between buildings in footage from March 9  Showed off their impressive balancing skills and one even slid down … Read more

People share ingenious designs that make everyday tasks much easier

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These effective solutions to everyday problems prove that sometimes the simplest ideas are the best.   Snaps of the brilliant designs were taken in the UK and US, with the best examples collated in a gallery by Bored Panda. The handy creations included a toilet roll with a miniature roll in the centre, rather than an … Read more

SAM LEITH argues technology has made plotlines more ingenious than ever

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One of our foremost contemporary novelists, Ian McEwan, is fretting that recent advances in technology have had an unexpected downside: they have made it harder for novelists to write plots. Speaking in a Q&A recently, he said that given a smartphone-addled world in which the characters ‘all know everything, as it were, and can always … Read more

Stacey Solomon’s new book series offers simple but ingenious tips to declutter your home

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Ultimately, I do it not so everything around me looks lovely and tidy, but so that I feel better on the inside, too — for my mental health, you could say, writes Stacey Solomon Some days I can feel just a little bit out of place, angsty and not sure what I’m supposed to be doing. … Read more

Stacey Solomon’s new book series offers simple but ingenious tips to declutter your home

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Ultimately, I do it not so everything around me looks lovely and tidy, but so that I feel better on the inside, too — for my mental health, you could say, writes Stacey Solomon Some days I can feel just a little bit out of place, angsty and not sure what I’m supposed to be doing.  … Read more

Ingenious new technology promises to take the strain out of housework

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Housework will never disappear, alas. But a global technology revolution is set to make our homes simpler to operate – and also more hygienic. Change was already under way before the pandemic, but lockdowns and working from home have accelerated the pace.  Now a whole range of companies are betting that more people will invest … Read more

Add some magic to your mantelpiece: With this ingenious trick

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Deck the halls with boughs of holly? If you must, but mantelpieces are where it is at this year. Cheryl had one and so did Mariah Carey. Ivanka Trump decided to go completely wild and did hers with green baubles and ostentatious ribbon. Of course, hearthside decor is nothing new. Pagans decorated with branches on … Read more