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Sheilagh Head’s studio is chaotic. Mixed in with paint tubes and canvases are bits and pieces the artist has brought home for inspiration — leaves, bits of glass. “I’m bursting at the seams,” said the 73-year-old. “Once I got a call saying Kofi Annan...

Like anything, writing fiction has its challenges. One of them, according to Liz Jones, is finding a way “into the minds of characters who are not you”. It’s what she did with A Dark Iris. The novel was a finalist in Code Burt Award, a Caribbean comp...

It took a while for Chris Blandford to understand the significance of Stonehenge. Granted, he was 8. Scrambling over the stones and going for an ice cream were more his speed. A lot has changed. At 70, he is president of World Heritage UK. It is his...

For years, Joyce Smith was terrified of speaking to anyone who wasn’t a family member or close friend. She didn’t want them to hear her stammer. “In school the children would laugh at me,” said the 73-year-old who gets emotional about the memory even...

Whether at a party or the grocery store, people have no hesitation in sharing their most intimate problems with Charles Dyer. Urinary tract infections, incontinence, prostate trouble — the questions are the trappings of the 77-year-old’s profession. ...

Jean Amédé Caze thought learning the trumpet would be easy. Once he got it home, he realised his mistake. “It took me three days of trying just to make sound come out of the instrument,” the 35-year-old laughed. “I’ve been battling with it ever sinc...

Mariah Cordeiro vividly remembers the first time she was sexually harassed. She was 13, playing mini-golf with her family, when a man asked her to squat. After repeated requests, she gave in because she “was young and didn’t want confrontation”. “My ...

Nancy Missett was more than a little sceptical when her daughter suggested she enter a triathlon. After all, she was about to turn 75. “I said, ‘At my age?’,” laughed the retired teacher. “My daughter did a triathlon last summer in New York. I just t...

Eugene “Buck” Woods knows a good thing when he sees it. He spotted Jewell Raynor on the street in 1957 and knew instantly that she’d make an excellent wife. “She was a very attractive young lady,” the 83-year-old recalled. “There was just something ...

Imagine seeing life through a greasy camera lens — colours are dimmer; contrasts less easy to discern. Everything becomes harder: crossing the road safely, reading, recognising the faces of loved ones. It is an everyday experience for many of the 2,...