Most people are burning candles wrong. Not disastrously, you're not burning the house down, but wrong enough that you're wasting money, ruining the scent throw, and ending up with a sad tunnel of wax down the middle. Here's how to burn candles properly, from the first light to the last flicker.

Let's be honest: most of us are terrible at buying gifts. Not because we don't care, but because we overthink it, panic, or project our own wishful thinking onto someone else. You buy your dad a "world's best dad" mug because you've run out of ideas. The truth is, the gifts people actually want are rarely the gifts we think they want. Spa vouchers that expire unused. Novelty socks. Personalised tat with their name embroidered on it like they're a toddler at nursery. Here's what they're really hoping for instead.