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Meet Erik the Irish draught horse I rode on my 70th birthday recently! I didn’t want a conventional party so opted for eight of us to go pony-trekking, then for a delicious lunch at a local farm that

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It’s funny, isn’t it that, despite all the modernity around us, our life paths remain fairly old-fashioned: dating, settling down with someone, marriage, buying a home, kids, grandchildren then growin

The Big Issue, 2nd floor, 43 Bath Street, Glasgow G2 1HW letters@bigissue.com@bigissueuk @bigissue.com@bigissue /bigissueUK thebigissue ↑ I completed LeJog (Lands End to John O’ Groats) for charity la

While the original National Folklore Survey from the 1960s was unscientific and open ended, simply asking random people “what do you know to be true?”, its 21st century successor is a very different b