Pretty but deadly

I love autumn with its cold, crispy, sunny days, beautiful colours and the chance to cosy up in the evenings with a movie and glass of wine. My dog, Tess, enjoys autumn walks too – but this time of ye

EDITOR’S WARNING

I’ll fight for his cause like a dog with a bone

After suffering unimaginable loss, some feathery friends helped me to heal.

Our lives, your lives... that’s life!

When I was a child, we had a tortoise called Winnie who had belonged to my father when he was a boy in the 1950s. He called his pet Winston after Churchill, but this name had to be changed when he dis