#tricks... and tips!
Every time of the year has its own trends and fads, or offers an opportunity to spotlight particular social causes, including some particularly noble ones. In Italy, May is for weddings, August for holidays, October for graduations, November for standing...
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I know, we’re smack in the middle of the delightful Christmas chaos: work dinners, festive drinks with friends, Christmas Eve dinner, Christmas Day lunch – and now we’re gearing up for the New Year’s celebrations. Add to that the hustle...
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After hats, jackets and shirts, the latest trend is personalising socks with your initials. Once upon a time, this habit of marking clothes had a practical function. It was used to help one keep track of their garments or reclaim...
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“All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking” – it wasn’t me who said this, but Friedrich Nietzsche, a 19th-century German philosopher with a passion for what we’d now call “hiking”. Even before Nietzsche, Aristotle was known to teach his...
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In Japanese culture, people have a deep respect for the power of names, not just of people, but also of objects. They believe that every object has a soul (as per the philosophy of Tsukumogami, or the “spirit of things”)...
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