Five ways to help your dog live a longer, healthier life
As anyone who has ever lived with a dog will know, it often feels like we don’t get enough time with our furry friends. Most dogs only live around ten...
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Five ways to use your garden to support your wellbeing
COVID-19 has shown that pandemics can seriously affect people’s physical and mental health. Stress, anxiety and depression have increased around the world, with the greatest effects for those living under...
Entertainment
Shrek at 20: celebrating the film’s unique brand of animated anarchy and sardonic irreverence
While Pixar’s groundbreaking Toy Story often achieves plaudits for the shot in the arm it gave Hollywood animation in the mid-1990s, it’s impossible to ignore the influence of DreamWorks’ 2001...
Poirot at 100: the refugee detective who stole Britain’s heart
A hundred years ago, Agatha Christie introduced British readers to a small man with an impeccably maintained moustache who, with the help of his “little grey cells”, was very good...
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Five ways to help your dog live a longer, healthier life
As anyone who has ever lived with a dog will know, it often feels like we don’t get enough time with our furry friends. Most dogs only live around ten...
Five ways to use your garden to support your wellbeing
COVID-19 has shown that pandemics can seriously affect people’s physical and mental health. Stress, anxiety and depression have increased around the world, with the greatest effects for those living under...
Grey's Anatomy
Hiking isn’t just good for your body – it’s good for your mind too
Before COVID-19, the popularity of hiking was on a downward slope in both adults and children. But its popularity has spiked during the pandemic, seeing many more people taking to...
How to help someone you live with who has depression
The coronavirus pandemic has brought significant changes to our daily lives, with restrictions on free movement, imposed lockdowns and social distancing. Many of these measures will have taken a toll...
Travel
Antipodean Adventure Pt.2
Our intrepid explorer Margaret Patten continues her adventures Down Under. When you have a four week holiday, it seems endless at the start. Then, having spent three wonderful weeks exploring...
Five tourist trips in England inspired by classic novels
Some books can really bring to life the place in which they’re set. Their words knit together in such a way that whole landscapes or entire floorplans of buildings you’ve...