Jayne and Mike Walker have finally found their calling in life

● It had been, until that point, an ...

My hog haven is my latest prickly passion

WHEN I first met Polly, I was a nine-year-old lad, who had been living in Nigeria for just over a year, yearning to have a parrot like other army families had. It was early December 1955, on a hot, du

Lucy and Blue Save the Day is a heart-warming new children’s book for ages 5-12, inspired by the real-life partnership between a UK firefighter and her remarkable dog. Written by Lucy Macleod, a Senio

A s we edge closer to spring, I find myself daydreaming about morning walks that no longer require five carefully chosen layers just to stay warm. That said, I’m far less confident that a change in se