In Bermuda, all it takes is one embarrassing encounter and you’re forever dubbed “Bong-Goat”.
But at least you’re not the guy called “Merry Mice”, “Belgium-Buck” or “Eagertoes”.
Dale Butler’s The Boo...
The first spoons Alex Davidson carved were flawless: the wood didn’t have any blemishes; the handles were perfectly straight.
The problem was that people were too intimidated to use them.
“Now I leave...
Oh my God, I’m dancing on the Royal Opera House stage!
That’s all Ravi Cannonier-Watson wanted to shout during his first Royal Ballet performance last month.
But the 12-year-old couldn’t move a muscl...
If angels exist, then there must be a few at Agape House.
That’s Betty Rech’s belief.
The hospice helped her brother, Roger Henderson, after doctors diagnosed melanoma, bone and prostate cancer.
He b...
Bank officer, Justice of the Peace, world traveller — Dorothea Butterfield is proud of all she has achieved.
She never imagined such a future when she was a teenager.
Her family couldn’t afford to s...
The average author holds a signing at a bookstore to promote a new novel.
Patrice Frith Hayward is inviting her fans to follow her out to sea.
She’ll be on the Celebrity Summit in April, sailing from ...
The first thing you notice at Perform to Learn preschool is the puppet theatre. The North Street school is all about self-expression and the arts.
But since September, in between the puppet shows and ...
When Kandra Dears says she is a psychosexual therapist, not everyone gets it. Last week, a guy called expecting she would hook him up with a prostitute. Rather than slam the phone down, she stayed on...
Retirement isn’t something 84-year-old Edwena Smith has ever considered.
She was a teacher at the Berkeley Institute for 25 years and then worked in insurance.
For the past 18 years she’s run a busi...
When inspiration knocks, writer Eric Murphy answers.
It’s not unusual for the Canadian writer to be hammering out a chapter at 4am.
“If you don’t answer when the muse knocks, she leaves,” laughed Mr M...