Original fireplaces, beautiful cornicing and windows worth keeping. How to make a period house feel like a home—with a little restraint and no ambition whatsoever to turn it into a regional lettings office.

Even our spare time comes with a list of things we should be doing. Drawing on Michael Norton’s research into everyday rituals, we explore the small pleasures worth making time for, without needing to justify them.

From Alan Rickman’s delicious delivery to Daniel Day-Lewis’s ferocious presence, the actors we remember make bold choices. So why does so much screen acting now feel so restrained and are we mistaking doing less for doing it better?

You’re keeping everything moving, but what are you looking forward to? Somewhere between the appointments and the washing, pleasure can become something we’ll get round to. On rediscovering what we enjoy, feeling at home in our bodies and making room for a life we’re excited to live.

Asteroids, earthquakes, tidal waves, killer storms and the occasional end of civilisation. From 2012 to The Day After Tomorrow, these are 20 disaster films that prove watching everything go spectacularly wrong can be extremely entertaining.

We know what the hotel room looks like, what everyone ordered and whether the film is any good before we’ve even left the house. The internet gave us infinite information, but it took away the pleasure of not knowing.

Love, arguments, dishwashers and the occasional emotional police pursuit. Cutler’s resident relationship guru Felix explains why being right is overrated, keeping score is dangerous and the dishwasher is rarely about the dishwasher.

September has always carried the promise of a fresh start. But wanting a different life and deciding to change it are two very different things. What happens when we stop waiting for circumstances to make the choice for us?

Good clothes, old things, peculiar habits and the persuasive case for becoming a little more eccentric. The gentlemen reminds us that the coolest people rarely look as if they’re trying.

We made a reading list for men, so naturally the women required one too. From murderous charm and crumbling castles to great love affairs, difficult women and lives lived spectacularly off-script, these are the books we think every woman should encounter at least once.

Forget the perfect interior. The most beautiful homes are inherited, collected, travelled and allowed to grow old.

Somewhere along the way, getting dressed became another problem to solve. Perhaps it is time we started enjoying it again.

Films used to be filled with people who appeared for thirty seconds, delivered one magnificent line and disappeared forever. They weren’t stars, but they gave films humour, texture and a life beyond the plot. So where did all the great bit-part actors go?