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My mum is not best pleased with the medium-range forecast. Becoming warm or very warm, with a risk of becoming hot again? That does not bode well for her ankles. [...]

After five years lugging around something approaching the size and weight of a small family saloon, I have splashed out on a new mobile phone. Nothing flash, mind you. No [...]

What would you say if I told you that, six months from now, I could be a Chelsea pensioner? True, the lack of either a disability or an army record [...]

While a fascinated nation debates the pros and cons of whole-face transplants, I am still coming to terms with the ethics of dentures. I am not talking about the wonders [...]

First of all, a big 'sorry' to the woman in the posh new Jaguar. When we passed you on the M25 last Sunday, and my son Luke raised two fingers [...]

It is time to amend the holiday list--the one I print out every trip so that I will never again find myself in foreign parts without cash, credit or clean [...]

I never really got on with rose-tinted spectacles. When viewing the past, I much prefer yellow Cellophane. I am thinking of the squeaky stuff they used to wrap around Lucozade [...]

You have to admit it, John and Linda Webb have got a nerve. Two years ago, they came up with the idea of putting boxes of sweets into workplaces and [...]

A molecular biologist and biochemist, Dr Trueman is a consultant to the horticulture industry. Not surprisingly, therefore, he reckons that just eating the stuff is only part of the answer. [...]

I hate radio phone-ins. Calls for 'lock them up' and 'send them home' have me reaching for the off switch. But the woman who told Radio 4 last week that [...]

Fame at last. They want to turn our home into a show house. People will flock to see our replacement windows, kindly installed by R&E Glazing at a special knockdown [...]

Next time you find yourself folding sheets, take a moment to consider Einstein's vision of the universe. The man who gave us relativity believed that space and time, far from [...]

Look up 'water' in a reference book and you learn that it is tasteless, odourless and colourless. No wonder we take it for granted. But this seemingly bland compound has [...]

Did you see the latest research on low-fat diets? This was no ordinary study. It cost $415 million of US federal funds. Nearly 50,000 women were involved over eight years. [...]

Janet has been on a resuscitation workshop and I should be feeling comforted. Lucky me, having someone at hand who can recognise a heart attack when she sees one. But [...]

Can you believe it? According to an astounding report from Edinburgh University, women snore more when they are pregnant. Apparently, it has to do with pressure on the lungs, narrowing [...]

Jung called it 'synchronicity', and it has been happening to me a lot. Someone mentions something you were never really conscious of before, and suddenly it crops up at every [...]

Me? Alarmist? Never. All the same, I wish someone would tell me what is going on. The woman in the paper shop takes my money in silence. Pointing to her [...]

With just a little tweaking here and there, Maureen's story has all the makings of a modern pantomime. It begins with some action--rough and tumble to get the kids excited. [...]

Of all the little things that are sent to try us in life, the cat flea is currently my least favourite David Attenborough can gush as much as he likes [...]

As a someone who is variously a customer, consumer, client, patient, passenger and punter, I am distressed by events at my nearest 'big' hospital. According to the local paper, the [...]

Falling from a ship's rigging is bad for your health. So is being mauled by dinosaurs, run over by boulders and spending too long immersed in molten lava. But fear [...]

Are we alone? Ever since we turned our heads to the heavens, humans have wondered about the existence of extraterrestrial life. Four centuries before Christ, the Greek philosopher Democritus was [...]

My English teacher, ever keen to sharpen our critical faculties, once told us about the time he was taken in by a newspaper advert. 'Wonder fly killer,' it said. '100 [...]

Next time you sit beside a petrol pump fuming about the ill-effects of hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, spare a thought for the victims of drapetomania. Based on the [...]

Today I want to talk about freedom: freedom from aluminium, freedom from silicone, freedom from any substance you can think of. After half an hour in the supermarket, all this [...]

Just when you think that things can only get better, they have a funny habit of being less bad than you read in the papers. Take my wart. That unruly [...]