Berna Cox discovers a new-found passion for DIY after a lifetime of ‘getting a man in’ to do all those jobs around the house When I was growing up, we were not a family who owned tools. My father, bless his soul, was not a handyman. He was a larger-than-life manly man (a county footballer [...]
With the explosion of summer festivals over the last few decades, Dr John Wallace looks at the music event that began it all. We like festivals. They can generate fantasy and freedom. Some fans plan their music festivals from the time they throw out the Christmas tree. They look forward to their eventual emergence from [...]
Shirley Lanigan writes that even though June might be the best month for harvesting in the vegetable garden, there is other work to be done to ensure that you have vegetables into the autumn and winter. By the time the end of June comes around, it is all too easy to sit back and be [...]
Berna Cox writes that young people these days are missing some weird and wonderful experiences now that hitching a lift is no longer an option or a necessity. There is a generation on the rise who, despite thinking that they know everything and that their education is so much more sophisticated than that of their [...]
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