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Jakob Leeuw fell madly in love with Maria Cabral the first time he saw her. She was at work, selling souvenirs in Riihilouma’s, and wasn’t at all impressed by the Dutchman’s sense of style. Plus, at more than 6ft tall, he towered well above her 4ft 9...

Barbara Lambert had always loved children and prayed for a big family. Still, she wasn’t quite expecting to have 13. “When I prayed I didn’t mean that many,” the 90-year-old laughed. As it turned out, however, having a large family was a blessing for...

Christine Whitestone’s biggest thrill about being cast in Back Words, was that she was playing an actual human. She played a parrot in last year’s pantomime, Treasure Island. Although she moved around a lot, her time on stage was brief and she didn’t...

In high school, Kristen Carreiro was teased endlessly about her thinness. The other children called her “Toothpick”. It was only as she grew older and started modelling that she learnt to love her body. “It’s our quirks that make us unique,” said th...

The nursery was filled with junk, unnecessary plastic toys that served no purpose. Forty children, all between the ages of 3 and 6, had the rule of the roost. They were having the time of their lives, running around and screaming; their teachers stru...

Jacqueline Murray-Hall is really proud to see her artwork hanging on the wall at Masterworks and even prouder to see her son’s artwork hanging next to it. The 80-year-old and her son Miles Murray-Hall are making Masterworks history as the first mothe...

Denise Richardson starts every morning thanking God for another day. The 54-year-old has been battling cancer, on and off, for five years. “Every day I wake up is a good day,” Ms Richardson said. “If I don’t feel well when I wake up, then that is wh...

Martin Brewer has two seismographs in his home. It’s not often that it happens but when the Earth shakes, people call him. “One time I was having lunch in town,” said Dr Brewer. “Journalist Brian Darby turned up. He’d tracked me down. He said I had...

Nothing about Gray Robinson’s first hours of kite surfing suggested a future career. He struggled to put his first kite board together in 2001. Eventually he and his father, Gordon Robinson Jr, got the contraption in working order and took it to Elb...

Roseller Pia was devastated when he had to leave engineering school early. The Filipino had always dreamt of becoming a ship-builder. But he was the eleventh of 12 children and his father, a farmer, could no longer afford to pay for his education. So...