Dr Lucy Pollock is a geriatrician at Somerset NHS Foundation Trust and author of The Golden Rule: Lessons in living from a doctor of ageing, which advises us all to seize life with both hands as we ...

Thanks to the dictionary, I now know I’m a ‘whiffler’. This very old term essentially describes someone who blows this way and that and can never quite make up their mind – as in the old joke: "I used ...

Our eldest son cheated on his wife, which has led to their separation. But he is angry with us, his parents, because we have vocally sided with our former daughter-in-law. He says that as his parents ...

Until quite recently, checking your blood pressure was something done only in the doctor’s surgery with a scary-looking barometer-style sphygmomanometer. You’d be nervous, which, ironically, sent your ...

When the mother of all dictionaries, the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) was first proposed in 1857, the founders wanted it to include every word in the English language. Not only that, they also ...

Big day on 7 September: two years since we met. Flags are going up on the Medina Bookshop, in Cowes High Street, where it all began; when this total stranger walked ...

Our neighbour’s ridiculously tiny new dog never stops yapping. My husband has taken to standing in the garden at all hours, mimicking it to make a point. It sounds funny but I’m embarrassed. I don’t ...

One of the most important retail lessons I’ve learnt in life is that no good will ever come from entering a shop that’s too posh to display its prices. Allow me to share with you the cautionary tale ...

Sometimes, no matter how hard you try, going to the toilet becomes a right pain. Medically speaking, less than three bowel movements a week is classified as constipated, but regularity is individual, ...

If you want to release some equity from your home, it’s important to find a product that works for you. Here we look at the features, similarities and differences of lifetime mortgages and retirement ...

My husband was made redundant about a year ago and seems to have embraced an early retirement. He is not even trying to get a new job and his inertia is driving me mad. While I understand that it’s ...

Grey hair is having a bit of a moment. A-listers such as Helen Mirren, Jane Fonda, Andie MacDowell and Sharon Stone have all proudly embraced it. Even Debbie Harry is shunning the style that gave her ...