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You’d think emotions would make it difficult to give away a family heirloom. Kathy Bromby says, not so much. She’s parting with a cedar table that once belonged to her grandmother, suffragist Gladys Morrell. “I’m ready to kiss the table goodbye,” sa...

Miguel Postlethwaite loves the adrenalin rush he gets from scoring a goal. Football, cricket, rugby — you name it, the 15-year-old has played it. But he insists he’s not competitive in a cocky, arrogant way. “I see the people I play sports with as f...

Chris Faria has an answer to the high cost of food: grow your own. He and his wife Alba started farming in their backyard about a year ago. Everything, from strawberries to garlic, comes out of the 500 square feet they set aside at Spanish Point. “W...

Maxine Esdaille dreamt of becoming a nurse until a frank talk about blood changed her mind. She then considered becoming a scientist, but didn’t receive much encouragement. “Black women weren’t scientists in those days,” she said. “Someone so nicely ...

As change goes, Michelle Ingham’s was a radical one. The 42-year-old left a well-paid job in Bermuda last October, to work with a dog trainer in England. She swears she wasn’t having a midlife crisis. “That sounds so extreme,” said Ms Ingham, a forme...

Jeane Nikolai finds trips to the grocery store difficult. She believes in fresh food, and seeing carts packed with processed items horrifies her. “I know so many people who use a boil-in-bag rice,” said the 50-year-old. “You don’t have to live like ...

Three years ago, Craig and Jackie Scott were determined to get fit. The couple signed up for fitness programme Beat the Couch, and changed their diet. Ten weeks later they were thrilled to find they could run 5K without stopping. “Afterward, we vowed...

At 18 Renee Kelly put college plans on hold to have her first child. And then two more children came along. For a long time, supporting her family as a single mother was her top priority. Last year, she decided it was finally her turn. With the he...

When Andrew Trott-Francis’s grandfather developed cancer, his first thought was “not again”. His grandmother had died from pancreatic cancer six years before. Doctors suggested Dale Gibbons use a trial drug to fight the cancer they’d found in his liv...

You better really like your spouse, if you’re going to run a business together. Mark and Ally Tatem have learnt that in the two years since opening Two & Quarter Photography. They’re together almost 24/7. “We have friends who say, ‘You guys are crazy...