Q. Fear not the hard-bit, brown-mush, drywall fruit cake. Wedding cakes have become much more interesting, and much more edible. What kinds of cakes and other sweets might we see during the 2026 wedding season? . A. This month, Pinterest reports out on the quirky wedding cakes that are generating

Q. For his 1942 painting Nighthawks, artist Edward Hopper used both his wife, Jo – a frequent muse – and himself as models. As Jo wrote in a letter to Edward’s sister, Marion: ‘Ed has just finished a very fine picture—a lunch counter at night with 3 figures. Night Hawks

Q. The comforts of home without all the chores? Sure. That’s a winning hotel formula. But, do we want to see other guests in their rumpled, blinds-down, teeth-out, home glory? We do not. What types of in-hotel behaviour do others find particularly off-putting? . A. Groan number one: put on

Q. They are awfully stubborn. The elephants refuse to leave the room, the thoughts cower inside the box, and the tattered idioms worm their way back into innocent conversations. What are some more examples of lesser used idioms? . A. The Oxford Dictionary of Idioms houses thousands of these ‘phrases that