Category: Lifestyle

Perhaps the thing that makes us human is the stories (real and imagined) that each of us has inside. Many people think that the gift of storytelling belongs only to writers, shamans, and the very old. The reality is we are all storytellers from the very earliest days of our lives. Children who are blind […]

How do your Sundays start? Recently I’ve travelled on Sundays to shoot short films. I made one about the Shimanto – Japan’s last clean river – in Kōchi Prefecture, another on the village of Ine on Wakasa Bay. I’ll be up at 4am before the sun and on my way. Do you always work? I […]

It’s funny seeing your name on a label or shopping bag. Sometimes I’ll see it on someone’s tote bag on the tube and that’s a surprise, though I’m very glad they’re using our bags. I always hope they don’t see me because it’s guaranteed I’ll be looking shabbier than them. My dad told me that […]

Even its harshest critics call Klarna a “genius” business model. The firm, which lets shoppers buy now and pay later, crucially without fees or interest, has grown fast in the UK – it has almost 10 million customers there and is opening 95,000 accounts a week. Interest among tech investors has reached fever pitch, with […]

We go into autumn unsure where the dice will land, but at the time of going to press, group exercise classes were still going ahead, with more than six people (so long as non-household groups are separate within them). Which means I am back in a yoga class, and that makes me anxious – not […]

‘I’m not a great musician, but I often feel there’s an analogy with music,” says Monty Don, describing his process of interpreting a garden for the first time. “When you’re learning a piece of music, your efforts go into playing the right notes with the right fingers. But until you stop thinking about how to […]

Ben on FionaWhat were you hoping for?A fun night. First impressions?Very hot. Loved the flares, and she had some good chat with the photographer. She was joking around and laughing about it all. What did you talk about?Food, music and how we’re both just doing this for clout. Any awkward moments?See my next answer (but […]

It is that two-hour window of the night – roughly between 3.30am and 5.30am – that I reserve to lie awake in the grip of nameless dread, heart thudding against my rib cage. During these dark times I’m keenly aware of both the fragility of existence and the sheer amount of admin involved. I know […]