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Laura Barton

United Kingdom
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Lily Allen vs the fans

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By Laura Barton
| Prospect Magazine Verified
One can make quite a sport of dredging the depths of Tripadvisor, seeking the site’s most exquisite displays of entitlement and pettiness. Consider the luxury Caribbean hotel lambasted because a fellow guest was spotted wearing shorts in the lobby, or the restaurant in Manchester that was criticised for its location “under a scary bridge”.
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Spotify has ruined mood playlists - so our critics have made some better ones instead Original

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By Alexis Petridis Verified, Jude Rogers Verified, Laura Barton, Jason Okundaye, Ammar Kalia Verified
| Yahoo News UK Verified
Music might be the greatest mood enhancer in the world: it’s certainly hard to think of another art form that can so effectively tip a feeling of happiness into euphoria or create a suitably gloomy space in which to wallow in melancholy. There have always been albums designed to evoke a certain mood, from Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely to Essential Chill Out Vol 2. But in recent years, we seem to have become more interested in the relationship between music and mood.
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My mother’s best advice: the secret to good pastry is cold wrists

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By Laura Barton
| Yahoo Style Canada Verified
Laura and her mother, pictured on Laura’s second birthday in Parbold, Lancashire, in 1979.Composite: Guardian Design; supplied Image (Composite: Guardian Design; supplied Image) I often picture my mother that wild, hot summer we moved to the house of my childhood. She is 5ft 3in in the long grass, wearing a vest and a pair of small cut-off shorts. She is digging borders and battling the sticky bobs.
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