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Lee-Ann Liles’s first book might be 11 years behind schedule, but she’s okay with that. Better late than never. The 41-year-old librarian has just released Aerie Short Stories , a compilation of non-fiction work she’s written over the last 15 years. ...

One of Brendan Huttick’s fondest childhood memories is getting a dehydrator for Christmas. He was eight, and dreamed of making smoked meat. “I was one of those odd children,” he laughed. “I lived in Pennsylvania at the time. My neighbour had just ru...

Clifford Looby still remembers how the girls he was interested in laughed at him because he was so skinny. He was six ft tall and weighed 126lbs. “Can you imagine how slight that was? I felt bad,” he recalled. At 18, he started working out and bulked...

Clifford Looby still remembers how the girls he was interested in laughed at him because he was so skinny. He was six ft tall and weighed 126lbs. “Can you imagine how slight that was? I felt bad,” he recalled. At 18, he started working out and bulked...

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...

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...

Sharday Simmons searched and searched, but couldn’t find a fun sports programme on the island for her seven-year-old son Chace. The activities that might have interested him all seemed so serious; many of the children seemed to be daydreaming or play...

It’s hard not to panic when your oxygen supply is cut off. Warren De Klerk was diving in a Bermuda cave when his oxygen tank knocked against the ceiling, jarring a vital valve. “I managed to stay calm,” said the 35-year-old. “For about 20 seconds I w...