The Life

The Life is a BusinessDesk section for people with an appetite for living well, who like to celebrate the good things in life – whether that’s investing in your health and wellness or a weekend at a lodge.

Get cultured - what you need to know about the seven types of cheese
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Get cultured - what you need to know about the seven types of cheese

Unlike a wine label, the rind of a cheese tells you almost everything about what’s happening beneath. With a little experience, a glance, a sniff, and a surreptitious squeeze – best done at home, not in store – you can determine the rudimentary character, strength and ripeness of...

Juliet Harbutt 07 Aug 2020
Picture this: creating an art collection for your home
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Picture this: creating an art collection for your home

Art is my favourite tool for anchoring an interior space while injecting personality and culture. Carefully selected pieces give a glimpse of who we are as individuals or families. Budget, style and space are no hurdles to creating a collection that shows a little piece of your u...

Alison Ward 07 Aug 2020
Fashion forward - the times, they are a changin'
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Fashion forward - the times, they are a changin'

The world is in a state of flux and like so many in the creative industries, the fashion media have copped a bat to the knees. The recent closure of many of our most popular fashion titles here and across the ditch, including Elle, Harper's Bazaar, Fashion Quarterly and Simpl...

Sally-Ann Mullin 07 Aug 2020
Test driving the Jaguar F-Type R
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Test driving the Jaguar F-Type R

For the first time in years, I bought a Lotto ticket so I could maybe never have to give back this car. Jaguar’s performance-focused F-Type R has a five-litre supercharged V8 engine that can power it from nought to 100 in 3.7 seconds.Its four exhausts produce the kind of exclamat...

Matt Martel 07 Aug 2020