Furry looks are back in fashion. Whether faux, secondhand or inherited, there are environmental and animal welfare issues to consider, and other ways to reuse old pelts
Faster pasta
Tipo 00’s spaghetti with garlic and chilli – plus two other speedy recipes
Sleep secrets
Should you ever tell someone you dreamt about them?
Goodbye hot rodent, hello beefcake
The return of the hunk
The pet I'll never forget
Lilly the stubborn, perfect Frenchie, who bounded into our lives and took over
Three things
With Ken Done: ‘I bought a very large Fred Williams painting – but I sold it, which was stupid’
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My wife has no libido. Should I sleep with other people, as she suggests?
Almost all nursery rhymes are utter doggerel and I loathe them, sadly my daughter doesn’t
Séamas O’Reilly
My daughter must have nursery rhymes… It is one of her gravest crimes
The moment I knew: when he couldn’t decide between the poutine or macaroni, he ordered both
Camellia Ling Aebischer was on a make-or-break date with Rob when a small but significant menu decision signalled she could be herself, without judgment
This is how we do it: ‘After trying spanking, role-playing and bondage, we decided to go back to basics’
Frank Skinner looks back: ‘I liked being famous – I felt noticed for the first time. But at some point it has to end’
How to make a relationship work – and when to call it quits: 10 lessons in love from divorce lawyers
Blind Date: ‘He let it slip that he has a thing for writers’
Jeff Goldblum, eccentric as ever at 71; the fallacy of ‘tradwives’; and ‘My dying wife found me a girlfriend’ – podcast
Norman Swan: ‘I tried very hard to do the opposite of what I experienced as a child’
Experience: My dying wife found me a girlfriend
My adult son has moved back home and is behaving like a teenager – and I’m deeply unhappy
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Exploring the quieter side of the Cyclades on a Greek island hopping holiday
The party island of Mykonos steals the spotlight, but a short ferry ride away, tranquil Tinos and Delos offer ancient history, holy sites and rugged beauty
Readers' travel tips
From the Dolomites to Sicily: readers’ favourite unsung places in Italy
Dog days
A ruff guide: how to travel around Australia with your dog
Germany holidays
Scaling the fairytale peaks of Saxon Switzerland in Germany
France
‘Food is the key to understanding Marseille’: a gastronomic city tour
Scandinavia holidays
10 of the best beaches and islands in Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland
Readers' travel tips
From Normandy to Provence via Alsace: readers’ favourite unsung places in France
France
Nice and easy: a leisurely cycle, with dog, along the final stage of the Tour de France
Baltic beauty
Exploring Estonia’s northern coast
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Crossword roundup: hidden Olympics … and a very orange secrets box
Cryptic crosswords
Cryptic crossword No 29,455
Quick crosswords
Quick crossword No 16,928
Sudoku
Sudoku 6,576 medium
Prize crosswords
Prize crossword No 29,452
Killer sudoku
Observer killer sudoku
Thomas Eaton
Who posed like Rodin’s The Thinker on Saturday night TV? The Saturday quiz
Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
Did you solve it? Are you smarter than an English major?
The big picture
Ryan Gosling, mullets and golden grills: all the latest in Olympics fashion – in pictures
While Hollywood A-listers dress up and dress down, the real stars of the Games continue to dazzle with their tatts, teeth and questionable hair choices
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