Search for good fortune
I am addicted to my horoscope. I read it almost daily, impose meanings on the mundane where they seem to fit, and discard what I don’t feel (or want) to be relevant. I’d...
Best Roadshow finds
The Fabergé kovsch, est. £600,000 A truly memorable fi nd, this drinking vessel, known as a kovsch, was ornately decorated with silver, gold and precious jewels....
The Lady's ladies of 2012
HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN DoB: 21 April 1926 In her Diamond Jubilee year, she’s now just three years shy of surpassing Queen Victoria to become our longest-reigning monarch....
THE SOUND THAT CHANGED...
It was an age of change. The world had been hit by a devastating financial crash and would soon march into the Second World War. But in the late 1920s and early 1930s,...
World's bravest women
Under a cold Afghan sun, as the call to prayer from the local mosque hangs in the air, Malali and Bebe are graduating from Lashkar Gah’s police academy. Under the guidance...
Uggie's Memoirs
He is the skateboarding Jack Russell who broke into Hollywood appearing alongside Reese Witherspoon and Robert Pattinson as Queenie in Water For Elephants. But he became...
'We must fight'
It is not your usual trip to the local women’s centre. But then our journey will take us along one of the world’s most dangerous roads – and through the labyrinthine heart...
Boomerang dog!
We found Boomer and her four puppies hidden under tree roots in the middle of nowhere, at least 18 miles from the nearest town. My husband Kevin and I were out on a horse...
WHAT TO DO IN 2013
25 ANNUAL CLASSICS Crufts 7 to 10 March Cheltenham Festival 12 to 15 March Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race 31 March The Grand National 6 April Royal Windsor Horse...
My perfect man
Just imagine: the dashing Mr Darcy is 200 years old this week. I believe that entitles him to three bus passes – and yet he is still the ultimate romantic hero. He was...
Goodbye comfort
The day started so pleasantly. The sun shone for the first time in weeks. I’d been asked round for coffee by my friend Deirdre, to discuss removing every supporting wall in...
Santa is coming to...
Playing Santa is something that happens when you least expect it: all it seems to take is one young god-daughter and a desperate request from her primary school for the...
Are you secretive...
More than six million Brits have debts that they have not disclosed to their partners, a new study by Prudential has revealed. The average value of these hidden outstanding...
150 years of the...
LONDON ON THE MOVE The 150th anniversary of the inauguration of the London Tube, the world’s oldest underground network, will be celebrated on 9 January – the first Tube...
The Morris Dancer
He’s called Phil and like most of his friends he’s never been without some errant version of facial hair during his adult life. He has also enjoyed an incisor-spiked smile...
The guerrilla knitters
Who would have thought that the simple act of knitting a colourful cosy for a shop door handle would have resulted in the ever-increasing popularity of fuzzy street art or...
"I am a...
There is an old saying that ‘the most valuable antiques are old friends’, and to most of us, the presenters of the Antiques Roadshow are just that: old friends. Since its...
Have a happy new bear!
More than 130 years ago, in the small German town of Giengen an der Brenz, Margarete Steiff accidentally invented the rst soft toy. Working as a seamstress, her...
Dogs of war
How did it come to this? It is 4pm on an otherwise quiet Friday afternoon and I am standing in the middle of a dusty field, in Afghanistan, facing off a British Army attack...
Meet lady crossword
Every book, no matter how big, begins with a single word. And for Anne Bradford, author of the celebrated Bradford’s Crossword Solver’s Dictionary, that word was ‘Lat’. The...
Lewis Carroll's syzygies
How many of the thousands of readers who have delighted in the Alice books know that Lewis Carroll was not really Lewis Carroll at all (as the Red King or the Mad Hatter...
Royal baby names?
We're hoping the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will have a baby girl and name her in honour of the late Princess Diana, a survey by babies.co.uk has revealed.More than 80%...
SAVE OUR COUNTRYSIDE
To my mind, the most important part of the Campaign to Protect Rural England’s mission is that we must ‘stand up for the countryside so that it can continue to sustain,...
Look out Santa… you’ve...
It handles almost as many Christmas presents as Santa. But as the world’s biggest online retailer comes under fire over its tax arrangements, Katy Pearson takes a look...
A Royal Birth Date
At 11am today St James's Palace today announced that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's baby is due to be born in July.A St James's Palace spokesman said: 'Their Royal...
Killer Slippers
With winter upon us, there is no greater temptation than to shake o the bitter cold by slipping into something a little more comfortable. Whether it’s your old tartan...
Brits do spectacle best
It has been quite a year: successes and stars galore, and so much more. Not to mention savage weather and any number of disasters. There were scandals, and shameful and...
Daily tip from the lady archive
“PEOPLE cannot help being influenced by their surroundings and their environment; therefore how all important it is that both of these should be healthy and cheery, for health and happiness both go hand-in-hand.”
The Lady. The Blessing of Old Health, 18th November 1920
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