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How did we get to March already? I swear I’m still finding pine needles in my house and my bank balance is still recovering from Christmas. Yet here we are! The weather is pretty atrocious but there are tiny spots of sunshine in the trees everywhere...

Running blindly through the night, an unmarked and unprotected 500-foot drop somewhere near his right side, Jason Williams questioned whether he was in over his head. His feet were covered in blisters, his head had “a cartoon bump”; he was dehydrated...

Buster collar, e-collar, cone of shame, lampshade.....these are some of the names used to describe this unique piece of veterinary torture equipment readily used by animal doctors worldwide. It’s the plastic cone we put onto your pet’s head to stop ...

The pandemic has put Anita Bean’s dream job on hold. After a long career in government she took early retirement in 1998 and decided to do something to make people smile. Thinking how the flowers her husband Quinton brought her had always made her ha...

A 50-year-old with a long history of health problems is asking for help in paying off more than $40,000 in medical expenses. Carmen Fernandes, who is unemployed and on financial assistance and receives additional help because of a disability, was sad...

This week at Olderhood we had the unusual experience of being contacted by a malfunctioning e-mail bot. I say malfunctioning because, as best we can tell, the string of messages that we received were not dispatched by a human and certainly were not ...

At 25, Tiffany Paynter discovered yoga. For years she’d written it off as something done by privileged people with time on their hands, but friends suggested it might help her battle with depression. The breath control, the meditation ….it changed he...

I watched the documentary Dirty Tricks last week, which is about a cheating scandal at the very top of the bridge world involving a player who at the time was considered one of the best in the game. It is a riveting story at times, and hugely sad at...

This month, as part of our ongoing series of faith features, we look at the Bahá'í Faith. Here is a simple, but hopefully interesting, overview of their origin and beliefs. Less well known than most other world religions, the Bahá'í Faith was formall...

I had a few experiences of church when I was growing up. When I was about seven or eight years old, my family were regular attendees until I was expelled from Sunday School (no idea why, ask my mum). Soon after that, our churchgoing dropped off to o...