47 h. ago From nursery to empty nest – interiors hacks for every stage of life

Invest in the right pieces in your first house (clue – it’s not a sofa), let teens have some say and make spare rooms work harder when the kids move out interiors experts share their tips for every age Continue reading...

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1 week ago Kate Garraway says Celebrity Traitors sparked 'next chapter' plans after 'worrying' time

Kate Garraway has spoken about her future after admitting that appearing on The Celebrity Traitors helped her to take a step back and assess the next stage of her life

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2 w. ago I am content being single. How do I make people understand that I’m happy as I am? | Leading questions

Anyone whose life deviates from mainstream expectations gets this, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith. Perhaps you could play with different ways to describe it Read more Leading questionsI’m 54 years old, and although I was married for 22 years, I’ve been single for the past 14. I did remarry briefly a few years ago, but that chapter was short-lived.At this stage of my life, I feel genuinely content. I’m on my own, but by no means lonely. I have a fulfilling balance between work and personal life, and I’m deeply grateful for my three daughters and my grandchildren, who bring me joy and purpose. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago The play that changed my life: ‘Waiting for Godot revealed that less is more – it made me fearless’

A school production of Samuel Beckett’s masterpiece, with Nigel Planer in the cast, provided a lesson in forgetting about failureUntil I was 12 I was in the French school system, where theatre was Molière, Corneille, Racine. Going to the theatre meant The Sound of Music or My Fair Lady. Then it was decided I would switch to school in England. So, at 13, I arrived at Westminster school. It was 1968, and the world opened up.I went to see a school production of Waiting for Godot in French in a small room with a little stage, and I was sitting at the back. Musically, I was pretty sophisticated – I already knew about all the psychedelic music that had been happening. I’d seen the Mothers of Invention. I’d seen lots and lots and lots. But I didn’t know there was stuff like this. I suddenly became aware that, just like in music, there was a whole new world out there. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago ‘I said goodbye to Heath Ledger at this urinal’: a stroll round Terry Gilliam’s pivotal places

The studio where he crashed the Life of Brian spaceship, the stage where he put on a Faust that caused fights, the pub where he last spoke to Heath Ledger the ex-Python takes a hilarious and evocative stroll down memory laneDown an alley in Covent Garden, on a building that was once a banana warehouse, there is a blue plaque. “Monty Python, Film Maker, Lived Here, 1976-1987,” reads the inscription. It’s easy to miss: the plaque is not at eye level as they normally are, but up on the first floor, almost as if the blue plaque committee lost confidence in their uncharacteristic joke. Or perhaps John Cleese put it up.Terry Gilliam arrives. I like his jacket. It looks like it’s been stitched together from bits of blankets. “Me too,” he says. “I got it 30 years ago in a secondhand store in New York.” We’re going to wander around London, revisiting places that have played significant parts in his career, as he approaches his 85th birthday. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Strictly's Amy feels she's let down fellow cancer sufferers by finishing last

Strictly Come Dancing star Amy Dowden won the nation's hearts with her courageous return to the ballroom last year, after a life-threatening battle with stage-three breast cancer.

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3 w. ago Iconic BBC sitcom set to be given new lease of life in London stage show

Co-writer and director, Doug Naylor has shared some exciting news surrounding the future of the show, but fans may have to wait three more years for it to come to fruition

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