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Welcome to this week's Chat… Have a read of Carley's story on p30 and see if you agree with me that it sounds like something from a romantic Hollywood movie! Single, stuck in a rut and daydreaming of a different life, she went off on her hols and got

Elizabeth Chapman, 52, from Steyning Where's your dream holiday destination? Since watching Race Across the World on TV last year, I've had a strong urge to visit Canada and Alaska. My boyfriend lived in Vancouver, Canada, for a while, so it would be

Snuggling down on some cushions, I watched Finding Nemo on the telly. It was November 2005, my 3rd birthday, and my mum Lisa and dad Bradley had thrown me a family party. Now everyone had gone home, and I drifted to sleep. And that's the last thing I

Melbourne's Eighty-Six music festival takes its name from which feature of the city? The answer to each clue (apart from the first) begins with the last letter of the preceding answer. The shaded squares will spell out the one-word prize answer. WIN

If you have a lot of bedding to wash, put it inside a pillowcase. It will make it much easier to carry to the washing machine! Angela Smith, Newton Abbot, Devon If you need to wash clothes on holiday, bring laundry detergent sheets instead of liquid.

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Holding my baby girl Josselin in my arms, I stared at the audiologist. ‘She's deaf?’ I cried. Gazing down at 3-week-old Josselin's little face, my heart broke for her. It was April 2006, and after her birth, docs had spotted an abnormality with her l

WIN 10x£20 Puzzle 5 Look closely at these two pics – there's a difference in five squares. The five grid references (eg, 1A, 2B, 2C, 3C, 4D) are your prize answer. TO ENTER Turn to page 56 for details ■

Salt may make food taste better, but you can have too much of a good thing. ‘Because of its sodium content, eating too much salt is linked to high blood pressure,’ says Ruth Goss, senior cardiac nurse at the British Heart Foundation. ‘Limiting the am

Q I'm 45 – why can't I handle booze like I did in my 20s and 30s? Jenna, Swanage A As we age bodies respond to alcohol differently, our for a few reasons. Firstly, our liver's ability to break down alcohol slows, prolonging its impact, while addition

Can you set a puzzle in this format? Send it, with a photo of yourself, to the address on p5. There's £20 for every one we use! This week's puzzle was compiled by Rosemary Janes, Monmouth WIN 5 x £20 Puzzle 6 1 Sewing aid 2 Sandwich cookie 3 Starchy

What term has been used in Anton LaVey's Church of Satan for a local meeting group of members, equivalent to something like a congregation or parish in the Christian church? Get from Start to Finish, making words by joining two boxes together as you

Which sportsperson launched the MAE27 clothing brand in 2023? Hidden in this grid, reading forwards, backwards, up, down or diagonally, are 10 items beginning with M, one for each of the subjects given below. Find them all and the remaining letters w

The Bossche Bol, a characteristic delicacy of the town of ‘s-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands, resembles an oversized example of what more common dessert? To find out, solve the puzzle… Add a letter anywhere in each of the boxed-off words to fit the

Stirring the pasta in the bubbling pan, I heard my little girl Brooklyn playing in the next room. She babbled away. Such a cutie, I thought, smiling. It was 5pm on 6 December 2023, and Brooklyn, then 20 months, had just started saying a few words. Ta

WIN £500 Puzzle 10 A series of road accidents in the early 20th century in which rural area were attributed supernaturally to ghostly ‘Hairy Hands'? Solve the puzzle by following the arrows and writing in your answers. Then read down the letters in t

To solve the puzzle, each 3 x 3 box, each row and each column must contain the numbers 1 to 9. Solve the puzzle and the numbers in the highlighted squares will give you the prize puzzle answer. WIN 2 x £30 Puzzle 11

WIN £40 Puzzle 12 A Pérot Fabry-interferometer is a technical component made principally from what items? The answer is the one missing from the grid. BATTERY BOOT BRAKES BUMPER ENGINE EXHAUST GEARS KEYS LIGHTS MIRRORS PEDALS RADIO SEATBELT TYRES WHE

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Which member of the British royal family was born on St George's Day? Solve the crossword, then read down the shaded squares to find the prize puzzle answer. 1 Iridescent jewel (4) 5 Visitor (5) 7 Closed (4) 2 Edgar Allan _, writer (3) 3 Allow (3) 4

Win! £200 cash! WIN £100 Puzzle 14 Rebuilt in 2021, 50 years after it was dismantled, which town's Prince Albert Memorial was the first such memorial to be erected after the royal's death in 1861? Solve the puzzle by following the arrows and writing

Thema, Cutter Expansive and Bliss are systems for classifying what types of objects? Fit the words into the grid, then read down the letters in the shaded circles. EAT EKE EWE SAT SPA SPY TOE TOY TWO TASK TAUT TEST TOTE TOTS TRUE TACKS TASTY TRYST TU

Q A friend recently went out of their way to help me land a great job after a tough time. I'm really grateful, but now they've asked me to buy them an expensive gift or transfer them some cash as a thank you. It feels really rude and odd. How do I ha

British comedian and actor Nick Mohammed voiced which animated character in the 2018 film Christopher Robin? Unscramble each group of letters to discover six young animals. Now fit them across the grid and you'll spell out the answer to the question.

Top chefs avoid waste at all costs, so why not take a tip from them. Next time you cook from scratch, pop peelings, stalks and skins in a saucepan with salt, pepper and two litres of water. Bring to the boil, simmer and you have a nutritious homemade

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Solutions to Chat issue 15 (11 April 2024) Puzzle 2 Union Puzzle 3 Pastel Puzzle 4 Just enjoy it all Puzzle 5 1A,1C,2D,3C,4C Puzzle 6 Real Puzzle 7 Spike Puzzle 8 Olivia Rodrigo Puzzle 9 Danny De Vito Puzzle 10 Sevenoaks Puzzle 13 Bury Puzzle 14 Anis

Anyone from your town in the list this week..? Chat winners issue 6 (8 Feb 2024) £1,001 CASH MJ Gillbanks, Liverpool £500 CASH O Pringle, Antrim M Clayton, Burntwood £250 CASH J Savage, Brigg S Sime, Warwick £200 CASH L Cryer, Wellington £100 CASH A

Dear Aimee, It was you, my little sis, who first spotted the angry blotches spreading across my shoulders. ‘You bruise like a peach,’ you said. With 18 months between us, we'd always been close. But now, in November 2014, a month after my 18th birthd