Since I was a child, I have loved the piano. I love listening to the piano and like a whole range of piano music. But I never learned to play the instrument. Because of that, there was always a mystique about it, a sense of mystery. How did someone learn to play...

Last night we had two birthdays to celebrate for the week ahead, both in the same family!

When I was 40, I was diagnosed as diabetic. The maxim ‘Life begins at forty’ didn’t seem particularly true to me at that point: this was a painful wake-up call. One of the things I was forced to evaluate was my own lack of self-discipline and I had to make pretty...