Volunteering your time at Christmas can feel like the best gift ever

An encounter in the hospital waiting room

I was becoming gravely ill, until my man planted a smacker on my lips Kerri-Louise Gilchrist, 33, Great Malvern

The Foundling Museum, London WC1

From West End musicals to Strictly Come Dancing, Dame Arlene Phillips has always been a woman with the right moves. And while the choreographer is now 82, she remains a force on the dance floor as one

Leavesden Country Park in Hertfordshire was once the site of several institutions: Leavesden Asylum, later known as Leavesden Hospital (in operation between 1870 and 1995), St Pancras Orphanage (1870–