Yes, they look pretty perfect. Yes, they last for weeks. But - there’s quite a big but with gel nails. Some consumers have experienced problems with nails and nail bed over months and it now emerges t...
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Pharmaceutical drugs can do good – in some cases they are true lifesavers. But they can also cause harm. The Government’s National Overprescribing Review, launched in September 2021, estimated that at...
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It seems fitting with Chelsea Flower Show coming into full bloom this week to think about one of my favourite poems simply called The Garden by 17th century English poet Andrew Marvell. He wrote about...
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I’m sitting in my office down the bottom of our garden in Dorset, looking out at the birds flitting around – a blue tit is sitting on top of a tall shrub like the king of the castle – watching my husb...
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When the father of a dear friend died some years back, we talked about the words we use – ‘death’, ‘dying’, ‘passing on’ and so on – and how they made us feel. Which was at best passive, but more a se...
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