The endless pleasure of potted ivies
I have a little outdoor table by the french windows that houses an ever-changing display of pot plants. In summer it has pomegranates, citrus and,…
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Click and collect: my insatiable passion for auction websites
Last year I stood in the shallows of my house, a place now ankle-deep with books, pots, pictures and lamps, and I thought: I want…
Field day for dogs as owners pay by the hour for safe green spaces
Twice a week, in rural Cambridgeshire, Rebecca Lee hires a private field for her dog, Moscow, to run about in for an hour. “Moscow is…
Can’t quit, won’t quit: confessions of a die-hard smoker
I have asthma, and there’s a fairly major respiratory disease going around, as you may have heard, and also I am a smoker. A quick…
Ravneet Gill’s recipe for wholemeal banana pancakes
It’s January and we are ritualistic creatures: a Christmas of decadence and overindulgence often means that the new year starts with our take on “healthy”.…
Munroe Bergdorf: ‘Transition was an act of love for myself’
I grew up under the Tories’ Section 28 designation in Stansted Mountfitchet in Essex. That was difficult. It prohibited teachers from promoting homosexuality, which meant…
On my radar: Moses Sumney’s cultural highlights
Singer-songwriter Moses Sumney, 29, grew up between Ghana and California and studied creative writing and poetry at UCLA. His piercing falsetto and genre-defying music have…