How to make it to 111 years old? Well, just avoid dying!
The oldest man in England has revealed his secret of longevity – he says ‘just avoid dying!’ And he’s managed it for a phenomenal 111years … Bob Weighton, born in Hull on 29 March 1908, was...
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Who is the bird woman who walks the streets of Brno?
Sometimes, something happens on the streets of your hometown … something small, insignificant even … on the face of it. And this photograph, taken in down-town ancient Brno in the Czech Republic captures one...
Why will nobody believe I’m alive? Howl of a real dead man walking
Constantin Reliu, aged 63, is officially a dead man walking thanks to his wife. She registered his death in 2013 after he failed to return home to Romania from Turkey, where he had worked...
Modesty glaze – let’s raise a glass to living past 90..!
Say cheers! if you want to make it past 90 – because drinking a couple of glasses of wine a night could well make you live longer. According to interviews with members of The...
What on Earth is going on as ‘Mad’ Mike’s theory falls a bit flat again
As another attempt to prove the Earth is actually flat fails, Dorrie Bridge takes a look at what shape The Flat Earth Society itself is actually in. ‘Mad’ Mike Hughes, from California, is a...
An exercise in imagination … well I’ll be plogger-ed
I have never been one to ‘do’ exercise, though acknowledging it is a major part of any health programme. As a child I climbed imaginary mountains, up and down the hollows; I teetered along...
Why I’m a Bacchan-alien as my lot binge for the future…
I remember in my twenties falling over in my sister-in-law’s kitchen, gently, like a leaf in Autumn. I’d had two shandies! And, no, I wasn’t on antibiotics, wasn’t pregnant, no wayward brother-in-law had spiked...
Christmas present … past and future as chestnuts roast and Skype calls
Writing for Grey Pride I almost inevitably look back to Christmas Past and think of times when we all went to Grandma and Granddad’s for Christmas Dinner. Julie was a portly, rather serious lady...
Northern memories of going underground with the beetles to escape German bombs
Allow me to create a picture for you – a picture of the streets of Manchester seen through the eyes of my childhood. My childhood was World War II. Most nights were spent...
‘Twin-sets and whiskey are not wild wild women,’ they’re the gals who like a drink!
A group of women are challenging the government’s booze-bashing message and saying a resounding cheers to having a few drinks. Drinkers’ Voice says it has conducted a poll that reveals eighty per cent of...
