The Guardian - Life & Style • Jan. 26, 2026, 5:13 p.m.

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The Guardian - Life & Style • Jan. 26, 2026, 5:13 p.m.

From Blue Monday and Candy Girl to ‘Violet, you’re turning violet’, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz 1 Lydia of Thyatira is claimed to be the first person in Europe to do what? 2 In what country do mountain lions eat penguins?

3 Single pot still is a style of what drink? 4 “Violet, you’re turning violet” is a line in what book?

5 Whose Easter Sonata was originally attributed to her brother? 6 Which two small UK cities share a name?

The Guardian - Life & Style • Jan. 26, 2026, 5:13 p.m.

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The Guardian - Life & Style • Jan. 26, 2026, 5:13 p.m.

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The Guardian - Life & Style • Jan. 26, 2026, 5:13 p.m.

She had entered end-of-life care and I relied on my car to get to her, but it hadn’t returned the licence Our daughter, who has cancer, entered end-of-life care on Christmas Eve. I am a carer for her and her two young children.

We both live in rural villages with no public transport options, so I need a car to get to her at short notice, but last summer, out of the blue, the DVLA told me I could not drive until December and revoked my licence . Continue reading...

The Guardian - Life & Style • Jan. 26, 2026, 5:13 p.m.

The city’s architecture travels through time and continents, incorporating everything from slabs of the Italian Alps to meteorites that hit southern Africa 2bn years ago In the heart of London’s Square Mile, between the windows of a tapas restaurant, a 150m-year-old ammonite stares mutely at passersby. The fossil is embedded in a limestone wall on Plantation Lane, sitting alongside the remnants of ancient nautiloids and squid-like belemnites.

It’s a mineralised aquarium hiding in plain sight, a snapshot of deep time that few even glance at, a transtemporal space where patatas bravas meet prehistoric cephalopods. How often do you give thought to the stones that make up our towns and cities?

To the building blocks, paving slabs and machine-cut masonry that backdrop our lives?

The Guardian - Life & Style • Jan. 26, 2026, 5:13 p.m.

GeoKarst is a new EU-funded project highlighting a unique landscape of caves, gorges and medieval villages near Trieste Our guide turns out the lights and suddenly there is nothing. Just total darkness, the sound of gentle dripping and a creeping feeling of unease.

The switch is flicked back on and the shadowy world that lies deep beneath the Karst returns. I’m in Vilenica, thought to be the first cave in the world ever opened to tourists , with records of visitors dating back to 1633.

It’s a magical sight: a grand antechamber sculpted through erosion, filled with soaring stalagmites and plunging stalactites streaked in shades of red, terracotta and orange by iron oxide, and dotted with shimmering crystals. Vilenica is just one of a network of thousands of caves located in the Karst region of western Slovenia and eastern Italy, which is known for its porous, soluble limestone rock.

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