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Liz Tremblay was terrified things would go terribly wrong when her musicians met Yehudi Menuhin in 1986. She put her students through weeks of practice in advance, and schooled them on the proper etiquette for addressing one of the greatest violinist...

Allison Whited got a startled look when she asked her boss for time off — to wash chickens. She needed a week to beautify her brood of 50 for the Bermuda Poultry Fanciers Society show this weekend. “The people at work were like, ‘You’re taking a week...

Kristi Graber has an ace up her sleeve when she meets with children — a four-year-old Maltese called Mala. The toy dog has worked with the special needs therapist and teacher since she was a puppy. “I noticed that therapy dogs would come in to visit...

It’s not easy being Joseph LeVay. It seems everyone he meets has a bone to pick with him. Dr LeVay is the lead character in Lydia Diamond’s play, Stick Fly, on now at Daylesford Theatre. The Bermuda Musical and Dramatic Society production is a fant...

Jeremy Houghton’s father wasn’t too happy when he told him he planned to become an artist. His exact words were: “Don’t be stupid! Get a real job!” But the choice paid off for the 41-year-old Brit. He’s painted everyone from royalty to Olympians and ...

Renita Minors thinks Valentine’s Day is “a waste of time”, Elisa Fox and her family can’t get enough of it; meanwhile expectant mom Rachel Plumridge confessed she’s sometimes pressured into celebrating the annual love-in. Lifestyle took to the street...

Balancing work with motherhood isn’t easy. Kim Dismont Robinson was thrilled when she was offered a spot at CaribLit, a fiction-editing workshop in Guyana. She’d been selected from 40 applicants based on her work editing several anthologies published...

Tiffany Austin only signed up for Argus’s fitness programme because she thought she might win a trip. It was a fair mistake, the eight-week challenge the insurance group was offering was called European Expedition. Ms Austin was disappointed to learn...

Kathlyn Dyer had to rely on old-fashioned elbow grease for a good part of her life. She had two choices if she wanted to get somewhere: walk or pedal. It wasn’t until she’d had her seventh child that she got a washing machine; prior to that she had w...

Roger Sherratt took to wearing his pyjamas under his police uniform to stay warm as he walked his beat outside Birmingham in 1963. Two pairs of gloves and two pairs of socks completed his outfit. It was one of England’s coldest winters — temperatures...