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Cook At Home
A new book, Cooking in Marfa (£35; Phaidon), celebrates a town that’s an unlikely haven of art and fine dining in the Texas desert – try this recipe for vivid flavours of the US Southwest and Mexico, even if you don’t go as far as grinding your own g
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Join The Party
Warble along with your friends to a huge catalogue of songs in this virtual karaoke booth (smule.com). Sign up for weekly streamed musical bingo, with songs not numbers to knock off your card, and actual prizes up for grabs (indeedybingo.com). Step i
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‘I Will Throw Myself Into Every Experience, I Will Accept Every Dare, I Will Agree To Maddening Offers And Crazy Adventures. Yes.’
Historically, the Perkins tribe were neither explorers, nor adventurers. Dad traced his family tree back 200 years and discovered that all the men had been either labourers or soldiers, and all the women charladies. None of my ancestors got the chanc