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Dear Heather, We have just bought a house and would like to encourage more birds into our yard, particularly bluebirds. Do you have any ideas on how we can do this? Bird Lover Dear Bird Lover, The eastern bluebird (sialia sialis) is native to Bermud...

Eddie’s Bar & Grille in Venice Beach, California might be 3,000 miles from Bermuda, but there’s a decided Bermuda flavour running through the place. A Bermuda flag hangs in the corner of the watering hole, and at least one of the patrons drinks Dark ...

As I started to write this column, I saw the sad announcement from the bridge club of the passing of Tony Buckley at the age of 92. Tony was a good friend along with his wife, Dorothy, and he will be missed on many levels. Tony and Dot were a regular...

Sheila Nicholls might be one of Bermuda’s most loyal visitors. The 82-year-old and her family have visited the island more than 30 times in 27 years. Wherever the Hamilton, Ontario, resident goes, she bigs up the island. “Back home, my friends don’t ...

If I were to suggest that Cabernet Sauvignon is the world’s most planted grape I could hear my old headmaster say: “Robinson, I think that you are handling the truth rather loosely.” He would be correct and I should say that it is the world’s most ex...

There are few things Cimeon Tyrrell will not do for a great photograph. To shoot one picture she crawled through prickly underbrush on her stomach to get into an abandoned house near her home. “That was probably the craziest thing I’ve done,” said t...

Cooking pasta would normally be a painless exercise for an experienced chef like James Perry. He has cooked on super yachts and in fine hotels and even taught at university level. Simple meals suddenly became a lot more complicated when he spent two ...

Dear Heather My husband and I have seen a house we like, and ideally would like to add an additional bedroom. That means the cesspit has to be moved is that difficult to do? Moving a pit Dear moving a pit It’s not the huge deal people sometimes ima...

James Paynter has bad knees and he blames it on his wife, Marie. He wore them out when they were courting back in the 1950s, pedalling from his home in St George’s to visit her in Sandys. “I’d hit damp patches around by Warwick Pond or going over th...

Choreographer Darrell Grand Moultrie has worked with everyone from Beyoncé to the Alvin Ailey Dancers, so you’d think teaching a bunch of children in Bermuda would seem dull by comparison. However, the 40-year-old New Yorker was only too happy to te...