by Maggie | Jan 1, 2024 | Health & Lifestyle News
The benefits of giving up booze can be surprising in many ways. After all the Christmas excess and celebrations, chances are many of us are thinking about taking a detour down sober street and abstaining from alcohol for a while. And, most likely, you’ll be thinking...
by Maggie | Jan 1, 2024 | Food & Drink Features
Each top dish was established by analysing TikTok videos containing hashtags for 2,600 delicacies. The number of views associated with each hashtag was tallied to produce a ranking. Food is often one of the most exciting parts of going on holiday, especially when...
by Maggie | Jan 1, 2024 | Home & Garden Features
There’s no better time to start than Big Schools’ Birdwatch. Children are being encouraged to watch and count birds in their school grounds during Big Schools’ Birdwatch (from Jan 8 to Feb 19), sending the results to the RSPB to gain a better overall picture of how...
by Maggie | Jan 1, 2024 | Leisure & Travel Features
Malta’s first art biennale, Copenhagen’s repurposed Carlsberg district, the first Arctic Circle capital of culture… this year promises a feast of cultural activity. Germany, various locations Germany is celebrating the 250th birthday of one of its best-loved painters,...
by Maggie | Dec 1, 2023 | Home & Garden Features
From banishing bin juice to blitzing bathrooms, cleaning your home doesn’t have to be laborious. Here is how to keep yours sanitary without losing your sanity. Everyone likes living in a clean home but how can you take the drudgery out of scrubbing? By being smug...
by Maggie | Dec 1, 2023 | Food & Drink Features
Celebrity nutritionist Gabriela Peacock, who counts Joan Collins and Jodie Kidd among her clients, reveals the hero foods your body needs. Nutritionist to the stars, Gabriela Peacock, has revealed the immune-boosting foods to get into your diet this winter, if you...
by Maggie | Dec 1, 2023 | Leisure & Travel Features
From Canada to Croatia, these destinations wear the cold exceptionally well. Frozen waterfalls. Snow-dusted pine trees. Spectacular natural light shows. Some places were just meant to be viewed and visited in all their wintertime glory, with a fresh layer of powder...
by Maggie | Dec 1, 2023 | Health & Lifestyle Feature
Without engaging with natural environments, our brains cease to work well. As the new field of environmental neuroscience proves, exposure to nature isn’t a luxury – it’s a necessity. It’s a grey December day; rain gently pocks the surface of the tidal pools....
by Maggie | Dec 1, 2023 | Health & Lifestyle News
Hot boxes are popping up on the coast, as well as beside lakes and rivers, but not everyone is happy about the trend. Seaside saunas were just a wisp of a dream until 2018. Now anyone walking along a beach at one of the UK’s main resorts is likely to come across a...
by Maggie | Dec 1, 2023 | Health & Lifestyle News
Current Government guidelines advise that all of us in the UK, including children from the age of one, should be taking a daily 10 microgram dose of vitamin D from September to March. Vitamin D helps our bodies absorb and use calcium and phosphate from our diet which...