3 h. ago I see time as a grid in my mind. I remember the birthdays of friends I haven’t seen for 65 years

Judy Stokes, a retired GP, shares her experience as a spatial-sequence synaestheteRead more stories of synaesthesia in the way I feel seriesDid someone with spatial-sequence synaesthesia design the calendar app on mobile phones? Because that’s how time and dates look in my brain. If you say a date to me, that day appears in a grid diagram in my head, and it shows if that box is already imprinted with a holiday, event or someone’s birthday. Public holidays and special events like Christmas and Easter are already imprinted for the year, and the diagram goes backwards to about 100,000BC and then forwards all the way to about the year 2500 before tapering off.It was only in my 60s that I discovered there was a name for this phenomenon – not just the way time appears in this 3D sort of calendar pattern, but the colours seen when I think of certain words. Two decades previously, I’d mentioned to a friend that Tuesdays were yellow and she’d looked at me in the same strange, befuddled way t...

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7 d. ago David Bowie's daughter slams friends on Instagram over dad's 79th birthday

David Bowie's daughter Lexi Jones, 24, has publicly attacked her friends for failing to text her condolences on what would have been her late father's 79th birthday

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2 w. ago LIZ JONES: The chatter about Lauren Sanchez at THAT party is deafening. But there's one thing nobody's brave enough to admit... so I will

The video of Lauren Sanchez's geriatric gyrating, taken by a fellow guest at a friend's birthday party on St Barts' Nikki Beach, has since gained traction due to the brevity of Sanchez's denim skirt.

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2 w. ago Moment two sisters leave friend unconscious on the floor after savagely attacking her on birthday night out

Shocking CCTV footage captured Charlotte, 34, and Katrina Whitham, 30, violently attacking the 38-year-old woman twice. The video shows the duo punching, kneeing, and pulling their friend's hair.

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3 w. ago Tea With Judi Dench review – the most touching TV you’ll watch all Christmas (plus a sweary parrot)

She’s such a great interviewer that this chat with Kenneth Branagh feels like it deserves an entire series. It’s relentlessly charming – and hugely moving when they talk about Dame Judi’s late husbandCast your mind back to Christmas 2017, and you might remember a slightly wacky BBC documentary called Dame Judi Dench: My Passion for Trees. On the surface, it seemed like one of those god-awful shows put together by tombola; matching a celebrity with a random subject and hoping it would pass muster.However, this was not the case. Dame Judi Dench, it turned out, really did have a passion for trees. An obsessive passion, one that manifested itself in a small woodland where she named trees after friends of hers who had died. The result was unexpectedly tender and gorgeous, and the show ended up being the best thing on TV that Christmas. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Family of Aria Thorpe, nine, who was stabbed to death say she was 'the most beautiful little soul' as they add: 'Our hearts are broken in a way we never imagined possible'

Aria Thorpe, who celebrated her birthday with friends just two weeks ago, was found dead at a property in Lime Close, Weston-super-Mare just after 6pm on Monday.

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last month Poignant tributes to 'lovely little girl', 9, after alleged murder leaves community grieving

The girl had chatted with a friend about her Christmas list and enjoyed a KPop Demon Hunters birthday party before she was tragically found dead, with a teenage boy arrested on suspicion of murder

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last month Dick Van Dyke so devastated by murder of close friend Rob Reiner he can't sleep

Celebrations for Dick Van Dyke's 100th birthday were overshadowed by the murders of longtime friend Rob Reiner and his wife Michele's deaths in Los Angeles, California

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