14 h. ago Dad given a year to live after he started seeing bubbles in the floor

David and Kirby planned their wedding in weeks after being given the prognosis

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25 h. ago Dad, 41, told he has a year to live after hallucinating bubbles in the floor

David Phillips, 41, has been given just 12 to 14 months to live following a heartbreaking diagnosis

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2 w. ago Ludovico Einaudi: ‘The way you blend the elements you eat is similar to composing a piece of music’

The pianist and composer talks about his passion for chillies, teas and saucepans, and cooking for his dad’s remarkable literary dinner partiesI live in Torino [Turin], a town where I grew up, where I was born. There’s a famous dish from there called bagna cauda. It’s a meeting of the garlic from the area of Piedmont, the mountains, with the anchovies coming from the sea in Liguria. It’s a very simple dish, a bit like a broth, perfect in winter, and you eat it with raw vegetables of the season. But there’s so much garlic in it that, when you eat it, you need a couple of days away from other people.There is a connection between how you eat and how you make music: the way you blend the elements that you eat, the colours, it’s similar to composing a piece of music. If I take my solo piano repertoire, I would associate it with a very simple food, with few elements and few colours, not overelaborate. If I think of a piece of mine with more instruments, more orchestral, I would ...

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2 w. ago Heartbroken dad of four, 39, told he has just 18 months to live

Matt was first diagnosed after he collapsed at home with extreme stomach pain

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2 w. ago I love my kids but I regret having them. How can I accept my life as a parent? | Leading questions

It may help to view parenthood as a rapidly changing condition, advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith says. It’s also important not to struggle with these feelings aloneRead more Leading questionsI have two children, aged eight and four. I love them both and we live in a mostly happy family with their dad, my partner.We had our children in our early 30s, without really thinking about it or talking it through. I have struggled to find peace with my role as a parent and, though I love my kids, I am increasingly envious of my single friends. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Zoe Ball’s daughter makes rare public appearance with dad Norman Cook at F1 75 Live amid radio return

The 14-year-old stepped out with her DJ father at the star-studded event which saw Gordon Ramsay and Geri Halliwell also in attendance

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3 w. ago Dad, 35, told he has months to live after doctors dismissed warning sign as 'stress'

Jason Lewis-Thorne was given his terminal diagnosis after doctors initially disregarded warning signs as stress and is now sharing what people should look out for

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