The UK-based photographer had to act quickly to capture his mini-moggy’s perfect pose – but is it enough to make Pearly Whiskers famous? John Angerson was working late one night when the family kitten hopped on to his desk. “She was only about three or four months old; I think we got her a little bit early,” he says. “This was the first time she’d made her way into my office. As she sat in my in...
Newly discovered official accounts show that, while a prisoner of Elizabeth I, her cousin lived a life of luxury She was executed as a Roman Catholic threat to the English throne, but during her long years of imprisonment by her Protestant cousin, Elizabeth I, Mary, Queen of Scots was still treated as a queen, previously unpublished documents reveal. The British Library has acquired official...
The writer and comic on how comedy let him escape a childhood beset by his parents’ ‘mad lives’ Born in 1964, David Baddiel is a writer, comedian and TV personality. He left Cambridge University with a double first and a burgeoning comedy career: going on to write on shows such as Spitting Image and The Mary Whitehouse Experience, teaming up first with Robert Newman for stadium-slaying comedy duo...
Embrace your inner Scandi, wrap up and make the most of the winter months Sauna and a swim on the Dorset coast Tara and I are happily glowing when our sauna host, Sarah, enters with a bucket of birch water and a tea towel. Tara is sitting on the top level of the sauna, squinting out of a small window at the bright Dorset coast and the seaweed-slippery sea we’ve just come from, while I am down a...
Embrace your inner Scandi, wrap up and make the most of the winter months Sauna and a swim on the Dorset coast Tara and I are happily glowing when our sauna host, Sarah, enters with a bucket of birch water and a tea towel. Tara is sitting on the top level of the sauna, squinting out of a small window at the bright Dorset coast and the seaweed-slippery sea we’ve just come from, while I am down a...
The Manchester City and England striker on vacuum cleaning, shopping, Netflix, taking a stroll down the canal for coffee and her Lego typewriter Up early or lie-in? I like a lie-in, so I’m up as late as possible. If we’re away training and have to be down for breakfast before 9am, I’ll turn up at 8.50. Sunday breakfast? I like an omelette but I’m not great at making them, so when I was...
Earthy flavours bring welcome depth to the autumn menu You need a couple of minutes without any distractions to fry a batch of fresh curry leaves. You close the kitchen door, pour a thin film of oil into a wide, shallow-sided pan and place it over a moderate flame. Strip them from their coarse stems, then rain the tiny, emerald-green leaves into the hot oil and stand back while they crackle and...
On train rides from Venice to Sicily, best book a window seat on these spectacular Italian trips The Cinque Terre Express One of Italy’s loveliest rail routes is the coast-hugging track along the Cinque Terre in Liguria. Called an express, it’s more of a gentle pootle above all five of the Unesco-listed seaside villages in this celebrated national park. Setting off from La Spezia, the route ends...
Whether it’s family expectations at Christmas, ground rules in a new relationship or the demands of working from home, people are always overstepping boundaries. But how do you establish a limit – and then stick to it? How to set healthy boundaries – and stop letting anxiety and guilt get in the way of living your life Whether it’s family expectations at Christmas, ground rules in a new...
The designer, 79, on reading in the mornings, addiction to labradors, losing his friend and being an impossible child I was a pest, an impossible child. I knew what I wanted, when and how, and refused to be told otherwise. It’s fair to say little has changed – I’m still as stubborn as I’ve ever been. Shoes are in my DNA. My mother loved them, my father, too. I was always surrounded by...