It’s too hot for sleep, or anything except restless thoughts…
It’s late at night on the hottest week of the year and the air is made of meat. I am lying in the dark thinking…
Category: Lifestyle
Sunday with Rag’n’Bone Man: ‘My son Reuben has discovered reggae music’
Sunday morning starts… Between 5.30 and 7.30am, whenever my son, Reuben, decides to wake up, jumping on my face aggressively while shouting, ‘Daddy let’s go…
Try a swoop of eye colour for a dramatic look
You can’t argue with the magnificence of a beautifully executed black-winged eye. Except I would argue that its colourful counterpart is equally wonderful. A bit…
August is upon us, time to enjoy the garden
First of August. The dog days of summer. We will have lost three hours of daylight since the solstice by the end of this month.…
Time for tea: refreshing alternatives to alcohol
JING Jasmine Pearls Sparkling Tea (£17.95, jingtea.com) The British have been reducing their daily intake of tea for decades – a long, steady decline that…
From the archive: celebrating the centenary of Marcel Proust, 1971
To celebrate the centenary of Marcel Proust’s birth, Derek Patmore provided a tour d’horizon of the great modernist for the Observer Magazine (‘The Paris of…
It’s a year since my open-heart surgery. It took almost losing my life to rediscover my lust for it
The scar on my chest is seven inches long. At the top of my sternum, the incision site, it’s white and waxy, slowly fading on…