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3 mn read Richard Cabut is a writer, playwright and musician. He has written for the Guardian, the Telegraph, NME and Zig Zag under the pseudonym Richard North. Age I have just turned 63 – late March, Aries. Where do you live? Sunny southeast London, Honor Oak Park, SE23 – near Forest Hill, Lewisham, a walk away from […]
7 mn read At 70, what kind of holiday do you look forward to? A weekend of culture sauntering around coffee shops and galleries with friends, braving the British weather? Queuing at an airport for a cheap flight to Orlando, to board a massive cruise ship and spend a week getting a taste of the east Caribbean? A […]
6 mn read Ever since I was a child, I have had a love-love relationship with food. I come from a Jewish family and anyone who is Jewish or knows anything about Judaism knows that every celebration involves food. Passover, the breaking of the Yom Kippur fast, and Purim, all are food-related holidays. Add birthdays, graduations, anniversaries and […]
5 mn read Ian Marchant is an English writer, broadcaster and performer. He is best known for his non-fiction—mainly travel and memoir—but he has also written two novels and several other books, as well as short stories and newspaper articles. Following the completion of Parallel Lines and The Longest Crawl he has been invited to contribute to several […]
7 mn read My cousin Danielle who is three years younger than me has done everyflippinthing before me forever. Got tits. Started her periods, her 12 and fecund to my 15 and sexless, straight as a board, a carpenter’s dream. She got into punk while I was still trying to figure out the chords to Bob Dylan songs […]
13 mn read This March I went on a package holiday to Tunisia, by myself. I’m no stranger to solo travelling but I’m normally on the move, staying at small hostels or Airbnb. I’ve only been on two package holidays in my life, and I’ve never gone alone. I did invite a friend, but she baulked at the […]
5 mn read Mindy Fradkin aka Princess Wow has been involved in the arts her whole life as a performer of Hat’s Entertainment, with her designer hats as props, as a singer/songwriter with her wasband ex Roland Mousaa, former radio show host, music promoter and founder of the Smile Revolution which raises conscious awareness of the healing power […]
5 mn read When Rose first asked me to write about sex and the older man, I wondered what I would have to say about it, and I suppose I may be an outlier, but I don’t think the six-second rule – yes, older men think about sex every six seconds too – has really changed over the […]
6 mn read Sooner or later you are likely to have an encounter with a doctor. Once you enter the land of dotage it comes with the territory, and very few get by without something failing to work in the body in some way. I know that the body is more than the sum of its parts, and […]
5 mn read I don’t wish to gloat but being a grandparent is the best. To be honest, compared to parenting it’s a breeze. All I have to do is follow the orders from my son and daughter-in-law. If I bend the rules a little when I’ve got the grandchildren to myself, well nobody needs to know. As […]
