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Picture the scene. A woman is alone in her isolated cottage when a car, its stereo pumping, screeches to a halt outside. Peeping through the curtains she sees a burly, long-haired man approach her door. Who could it be? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

I assumed Janet was making a point when she came back from the supermarket and told me that it stocked Weight Watchers wine. What would I do with that? Why was she telling me? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

David Newnham discovers that the search for a guilt-free tipple is timeless. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It started with an argument in a hardware shop and ended with a radical plan to save the NHS from financial ruin. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Duct tape is of uncertain origin but has had odd medical uses, writes David Newnham. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There is something irresistible about estate agents' windows. All those possible lives hanging there in rows, each with a price attached and a photograph cropped so that it does not show the scrapyard next door. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To hear some people talk about Europe, you would think the continent was a single country with one set of laws and one way of doing things. In fact, the reality never ceases to amaze me. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A cross-Channel trip has David Newnham fumbling with his French vocabulary. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

My mum's friend Enid is a martyr to her bowels. Should I really be telling this to the world? Don't worry, you need have no fears on that front. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Our bowels are no longer the mystery they once were, writes David Newnham [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The fact that a politician has had an operation to reorganise his airways means that, for a brief period only, we can talk openly about snoring. So best strike while the iron is hot. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Barn dancing keeps you on your toes. First you must remember what to do and in what order, then you must summon the energy. After half an hour of do-se-dos and stripping willows, I'm mentally and physically exhausted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

David Newnham gets in a spin when he spies his GP dancing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

All the evidence points to some pretty useless research, reports David Newnham. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

If I sound grumpy it is because everyone I speak to tells me we are living longer. Is that not a reason to be cheerful? It would be if I believed it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

David Newnham wonders whether increased longevity is merely a luxury of the rich. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

My heart goes out to the press officer who has to promote the latest report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. 'Young People, Alcohol and Influences' murmured the title page. Hardly the stuff of headlines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Teenagers want to drink just like their parents, finds David Newnham [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Hygiene fiascos peaked last week, notes David Newnham [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It was my boys who introduced me to the online world of Second Life. Which seems only fair, given that my first life has been given over to ferrying them around the country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The next frontier for practice nurses is cyberspace, says David Newnham. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At the risk of sounding paranoid, I have begun to think that the insurance industry is out to get me. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

They have ways of making you buy insurance, warns David Newnham. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

They must be used to people like me at the organ donor register. Either that or the woman I spoke to has learned to let her feelings show. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

David Newnham has registered as an organ donor -- three times. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

I had a breakdown in 1986 and I have been depressive ever since, on and off. It was a pretty full-on psychotic breakdown. I was arrested for my own good and told I would not be let out of the police station unless I went to hospital. I went -- and it was the best thing that ever happened to me. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

David Newnham has become more positive... well it's a mood thing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

When it comes to new bits of kit we are all kids at heart, says David Newnham [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

David Newnham has a cosy chat about the dark arts of statistics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It is the time of year again -- the time when I cautiously sniff the country air and thank the laws of probability for what I can only assume is a fluke of genetic coding. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

David Newnham enjoys the spring air but is mindful of late-onset hay fever. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

David Newnham decides to speak up about pain at the dentist. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As online video clips go, it is not the most entertaining. That one on YouTube with the cat and the office printer made me laugh out loud, and even the boy pushing his brother into a stream raised a chuckle. But if you are looking for something thought-provoking, I can recommend the woman with arthritic fingers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Computer trickery is the latest method of pain relief, discovers David Newnham. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ding! Did you hear that? It was the sound of the penny dropping. Four years seems to be the delay factor -- the time it takes before some piece of medical wisdom, having entered the public domain, finally makes it to this household. At least if the paracetamol headached is anything to go by. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

David Newnham finds that it takes four years for advice to sink in. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

David Newnham is reminded that radiation can save lives as well as cause harm. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

David Newnham will fight for the right to eat cheese. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

David Newnham looks forward to surviving on self-heating dried food during his old age [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Silver sales' firms will never pull the wool over my bifocals, says David Newnham [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

David Newnham discovers procuring drugs is harder when you neglect to shave. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Department of Health's Clare Chapman invites nurses to help reshape the training system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Disgruntled driver David Newnham is offered the wisdom of youth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]