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The fragrance

Cut grass candle by The White Company, £16, thewhitecompany.com

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Ice by Howard Hodgkin, edition

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Although only built in the 90s, Skywood House has become an architectural icon. All clean surfaces and long lines reflected lake-side in woodland, it has come to represent the idealised contemporary living space. You may not have heard of it, but you’ve certainly seen it, as it’s constantly used as a location for advertising and film. Quite an achievement for a four-bed in Uxbridge. This 272 page love letter documents Skywood’s life from sketch to build along with its impact on modern design and popular culture.

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Skywood House: The Architecture of Graham Phillips by Phyllis Richardson, £42, thamesandhudson.com

It may be necessary to our diet, but overuse of salt can be hugely harmful to health. A quick spritz of this liquid salt instead is a healthier alternative as it contains 75% less sodium than table salt. Those creative French gourmands DW$·5RPKDYHDOVR

gone a step further by adding the zest of citrus for chicken or salads and fresh mint for lamb.

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Cowrie chair by Made in Ratio, shaped plywood, £2,000, madeinratio.com

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£60, habitat.co.uk

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I’ve been with my boyfriend for about a year. It’s going great and he might be the one. There’s just one problem.

He always holds back when it comes to public displays of affection – he shrinks away if I go in for a kiss when we’re out and about, and he never holds hands in the street.

Why shouldn’t he want to hold hands when we’re out for dinner? What’s wrong with a peck on the lips when we meet up? It’s never been an issue with any other boyfriend. How do I get him to stop being such a cold fish?

Simon, via email

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spent many a miserable hour on public transport watching a loved-up coloved-uple attempt to turn each other inside out using only their tongues. The fact that you have managed to get a year down the road into your relationship with this

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to this hand-holding nonsense to avoid addressing it.

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to learn to accept it.

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child to a museum.

Also, think of the service your boyfriend is doing for the rest of us.

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