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Every morning Renee DeSilva likes to do her “thumps and bumps”. Planks, push-ups, walks and weights – the 93-year-old does them all because if she didn’t she “would be stiff". "The exercises loosen everything up,” she explained. At 85 she suffered f...

Scarlett Smale trailed behind as her classmates learnt how to read in Primary Two. Her mother, Heather, had an inkling of what the problem might be. Scarlett’s father, Nick, and her grandfather Richard Kitson are dyslexic; her great uncle, Kirk Kits...

Geoff Tomlinson has not lived in Bermuda since 1975 but still reads The Royal Gazette every day and regularly checks out the weather on the Dockyard webcam. He describes his six years here as magical. He was teaching in Cambridgeshire, England in the...

At 22 Bruce Swan found out he had diabetes and, instead of dealing with the diagnosis, set it aside. He was in law school at the time and focused on his studies. Today, he wishes he had been more concerned about his health. Last year while walking ou...

Robert Lee had never rowed in his life so at 76, when a friend suggested he give it a try, he was a little bemused. Six years later, however, he is in love with the sport. Twice a week at 8am the eager member of the Bermuda Pilot Gig Club is at the ...

Watching her daughter, Austin, grow up is a bittersweet experience for Shawnette Smith. While she loves that the 11-year-old is becoming more independent, it sometimes gets her down. “I definitely find it painful that my daughter does not need me as ...

Willem Mulder loves painting, but laughs about his actual talent. “I was amazed,” he said. “Last year two of my paintings sold in the Warwick Academy Art Auction. One went for $25 and one went for $75.” He had his first lesson as an adult at the Berm...

Nylah Bassett is one of Bermuda’s youngest YouTube sensations. The three-year-old started helping her mother to cook almost as soon as she could sit up on her own. “I would put her on the counter and she would help me mix,” said Kiara Somner. Nylah...

In 1953 Anne Hines became the first Bermudian to successfully dance en pointe in public. She did it at the Colonial Opera House on Victoria Street where she played the dying swan in Swan Lake. “My friend was supposed to do it,” the 82-year-old said. ...

The aged Pembroke Rest Home building on Parsons Road had sat empty for 12 years. Its floors and ceilings were falling in and the wiring and plumbing needed a complete overhaul. Edward Fox, a civil service engineer, who sits on the board of Habitat f...