nickhereandnow

It's generally assumed that to live to a fit old age, you need to stick to a healthy lifestyle. Regular gym workouts, a nutritious diet,...

I've tried very hard but I still haven't learnt how to be a chatterbox. I'm far too self-conscious to gabble away effortlessly a...

Would you be unable to live in a house where some terrible tragedy occurred, or would you be able to ignore it and carry on with life as usu...

A man and a woman have been charged with criminal damage, disorderly behaviour and burglary after throwing paint at a Barclays Bank in Belfa...

  Journalist Allison Pearson says she's lost count of the number of people who have told her they're not buying or expecting present...

One of the hardest things to adjust to if you're an up-and-coming celebrity must be the fact that everyone can write about you and they ...

Going back to dress codes, I see that school pupils are still being told to change their "unacceptable" hairstyles, and can face e...

Two of you asked me for more details of the falling chimney that almost finished me off. I was a child at the time (not sure what age). I ca...

It's a long time since I did a Question and Answer, so I thought I'd do another one. Respectable questions only of course, nothing t...

One thing that's changed for the better during my lifetime is clothing etiquette. Clothing was much more formal when I was young, but ov...

I tend to get annoyed when someone asks how my retirement is going, and I'm trying to work out why. I think it's because either they...

Wills are normally dealt with behind closed doors and out of the public eye. It's generally assumed that the will was properly dealt wit...

Would you be happy to live in a house that's covered with doodles from top to bottom? With not a single square inch left uncovered - doo...

There are the major annoyances that drive you crazy. Then there are the petty irritations that niggle at you but are more or less endurable....

I don't understand how the TV companies decide on trigger warnings. They give frequent warnings about things that seem trivial, but igno...

The respect for authority figures that was the norm when I was growing up has gradually crumbled over the years. Crumbled so far in fact tha...

The big feature of cancel culture (aka polarisa-tion) is that it puts "being offended" into a whole new context. "Being offen...

It never ceases to amaze me how people will believe not only the unlikely but the clearly impossible. Even if other people pick a hundred ho...

Tact. "Skill and sensitivity in dealing with others or with difficult issues". A word that isn't used much these days, but per...

One thing Jenny and I have never dared to do is take on a "fixer-upper" (a crumbling old house that needs a lot of work to put it ...