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Elbows off the table. Mouth closed when you’re chewing, please. Your fork is not a shovel. What’s the magic word? Elbows OFF the table!’ The soundtrack to many mealtimes with my eight-year-old: an endless, nagging stream of dos and don’ts. I am simpl...

Today. We can often forget just how important today is. We may talk about yesterday and plan for tomorrow but what about today? Each of us is given just so many days to experience our lives. I look around at work or at play and wonder who are the pe...

Author Ian Fleming once said his fictional secret agent James Bond was “a highly romanticised version of the true spy. The real thing … is Sir William Stephenson,” the Canadian-born espionage chieftain who ran a major Second World War intelligence op...

Dear Dr Nekia, I have a woman that never initiates sex. I ask her to, and I tell her that it means a lot to a man to feel wanted, but although she says that she will, never does. She really doesn’t see the problem because she says that she doesn’t re...

Duane Aubrey, a popular chef known to friends and colleagues as Roddy, has died suddenly at the age of 61. Mr Aubrey’s passing over the weekend devastated colleagues at the tight-knit Spot restaurant, where he had worked since 2009 after a lengthy ca...

Do you know someone whose courage, selflessness and hard work have changed Bermuda for the better? If so, you can submit them for consideration in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List — with honouree activities including voluntary work, arts, health, sp...

A pitbull-cross puppy found wandering the streets in Warwick is settling in to his new home in Florida after a former Bermuda resident saved him from being put down. The puppy was seized by dog wardens in the Spice Hill area earlier this month and f...

There is a slight chance that my children will be born into a world where Tottenham Hotspur could be Barclays Premier League champions. For those of you who know either myself or the Premier League well enough, that is a ridiculous and absurd though...

Bermuda resident Alun Thomas is this week tackling the challenge of a lifetime — the brutal Marathon des Sables in the Saharan desert. The race, which began 30 years ago, tasks competitors with essentially completing six marathons over the course of ...

Dear Heather, A friend of mine who priced their home lower than market value ended up having a bidding war on it! Should sellers price their homes for less than they expect to get, in the hopes of getting multiple offers above asking price? Seller ...

Wind. How do you take advantage of the wind at your back. We all know that a tailwind can drive an airplane forward faster than if it is fighting a headwind. That is what sometimes gets us to our destination faster. What is the tailwind that you use ...

As it is known, a heart murmur is a sound produced when blood flows across one of the heart valves, and is loud enough to be heard with a stethoscope. While a heart murmur could be inconsequential or “innocent”, especially in young people, it may re...