Why I’m Relying on Wim Hof For Fewer Hangovers
Have you heard about Wim Hof, the Ice Man? The one who ran up Mount Kilimanjaro in only a pair of shorts and who once swam underneath sheet ice for a distance of 66 metres? I hadn’t, until I read a recent interview with him in the Sunday Times. I’ll...
Flowers, From Actual Seeds
See those sweet peas, the ones in that photo? (They smell as beautiful as they look, by the way). They are the first flowers that I have ever grown from seed in my whole adult life. I am forty years old. I am not a natural gardener. Back in...
How I learnt to run and why I love running
Around the time of my youngest daughter’s first birthday I decided, almost on a whim, to become a runner. I had happened upon an article in a women’s magazine, just a short segment, in which the author extolled the virtues of running as a hobby and it appealed to...