Apples
It’s ‘Apple Month’ – so a truly appropriate month to look at the benefits of a fruit which is currently abundant, after one of the best harvests in years. Of course, ever since...
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Editorial - Jo Fairley
Coffee
Is there a more seductive smell in the world than fresh coffee? It beckons us with its fresh-roasted warmth. It offers the promise of instant energy, in a steaming mug of deliciousness. (Even if we se...
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Arms Heading South
Most of the women I know who look at news footage of the US president are transfixed by Barack Obama. But not me. I generally spend the whole time examining Michelle Obama’s upper arms, which ar...
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Beauty and the Beach
Working on the basis that if we don’t get an English summer then many of you will still be headed somewhere warm, I thought I’d address the challenges of looking gorgeous in hot weather. T...
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The Great British Beach Tan
British beaches are wonderful. I know; I happen to live 250 yards from one. Shingle. Seagulls. Blistering sunshine. Now, Club 55/St. Tropez, Hastings beach is not. I can’t think of anywher...
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Red Lipstick
Maybe you’re scared of red lipstick. Maybe you’re devoted to it: the make-up ‘signature’ friends know you for. But as make-up statements go there is nothing more classic &ndash...
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