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Nkenge Warren-Swan loved her students but just the thought of talking to their parents terrified her. Her fear showed at every parent teacher night where her strategy was to just “get through it”. “I spoke with a lot of long pauses,” Ms Warren-Swan...

Have you ever had an experience that was so hysterically funny that you just weren’t sure you could ever explain it to someone else? Picture me now sitting at the keyboard trying to figure out how to explain the side-splitting pandemonium that ensued...

A thousand years after Leif Erikson – or his fellow Vikings – created a European settlement in North America, the great seafarers have finally arrived in Bermuda, having crossed the Gulf Stream in the Viking Orion, one of the oceanic vessels of the V...

If there is one thing I will do by way of this column is to make you think and plan before you play to trick one as declarer. Seeing the solution in the post mortem, or worse still having your partner point it out to you, is not what you want, so try...

Jahmah and Devonna Samuels believe that marriage should be celebrated daily. The couple created a Facebook page with the specific intention of doing just that. Marriage Motivation with the Samuels promotes positive, happy and healthy marriages and re...

Bill McClure understands that metal isn’t everyone’s thing but he’s proud of Persistence, the album he released last month. Aside from anything else it sets an example for his children, Sophie, 10 and Zack, 6. “I wanted to show them you can set a big...

As you can tell by the traffic, schools are back – at least some of them. By next week we will be in full flow! Between Covid and the summer holidays I feel well and truly out of the morning routine. Getting out of the house in good time has always ...

Since the Thursday before Labour Day is set aside to celebrate the most extensively planted wine grape, I will continue from last Friday’s column and describe a few more of our cabernet sauvignons. But first, a little information. It varies considera...

For women who constantly feel burnt out because they put everybody else’s needs first, Mikhaila Faries is offering help. It comes in the form of a virtual programme, Supercharged in 90 Days. The certified holistic wellness coach promises that by the ...

If you think you’re suffering through the summer heat spare a thought for our four-legged friends with their non-removable fur coats and distinct lack of sweat glands. Even the short-coated breeds struggle with our summer temperatures and high humid...