My 16-year old son and I took a walk through the neighbourhood last weekend, the latest instalment in our weekly series of ‘Let’s get away from our screens and talk about Important Things, while Mum tries not to trip over her own feet’. Spoiler alert:...

It might be a good idea, if you are hoping for something akin to your traditional holiday celebrations, to get out there sooner rather than later to stock up.

Here we are in the Dog Days of Summer, already, though June and July seemed to last about four seconds long. Summertime, and the living is easy, as they say. August, such a sleepy month, nothing but lazy afternoons in the sunshine, reading a good book...