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Reader Susan Smith and her daughter Christine (pictured) have always been keen knitters, so when the opportunity arose to set up their own knitting stall at a church fete to mark the Queen’s 90th birthday, they jumped at the chance. One of their bestsellers was this cheeky corgi, which Susan made using a WW pattern. She added a crown and a royal blue collar, and it wasn’t long before the little chap found a new home! In fact, it was so popular that Susan has agreed to make more for her neighbours in Hampton. Time to get knitting, Susan! • Have you made something gorgeous? Well, don’t be shy – we want to see it!…

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‘I realised I didn’t want to spend the rest of my life feeling sorry for myself’ When Liz Copeland, 59, discovered her husband Robert* was cheating on her, it felt as if her whole world had fallen apart. For 22 years she had remained a dutiful wife and mother, believing she would grow old with him by her side. Like many women, Liz had depended on him for everything, and the prospect of being without him terrified her. ‘My life revolved around him,’ she admits. ‘Because of that I’d never had a chance to find out who I was. Robert was in charge of the mortgage and bills. He decided how we spent our money. I had no idea how I would manage without him.’ Liz’s life changed forever eight…

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I’d never had a child left in my office. I really had no idea what to do with it We’ve found this little one wandering round the store on his own,” Jenny said as she gently pushed the small boy into my office like a mother dog nudging a puppy. I looked at the child and he looked back at me. He looked a bit like a Dickensian orphan with his long straggly hair, enormous brown eyes and mucky face. There was nothing Dickensian about his turned-up jeans and tartan shirt, though. “Put a call out,” I said. “You know the drill.” “We have. Three times,” she said. “No response as yet and we can’t keep him on the shop floor at customer information. I thought perhaps he could sit…

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Easy-peasy A Bit More Tricky Hard–ish Quite A Challenge MEASUREMENTS To fit bust sizes 81 (86) (91) (97) (102) (107) (112) cm/32 (34) (36) (38) (40) (42) (44) in. Actual measurements 92 (98) (105) (111) (117.5) (124) (130) cm/36¼ (38½) (41½) (43¾) (46¼) (48¾) (51¼) in. Side seam 36 (36) (37) (37) (38) (38) (39) cm/14 (14) (14½) (14½) (15) (15) (15¼) in. Length to shoulder 54 (55) (56) (57) (58) (59) (60) cm/21¼ (21½) (22) (22½) (23) (23¼) (23½) in. Sleeve seam 33 (33) (34) (34) (35) (35) (36) cm/13 (13) (13¼) (13¼) (13¾) (13¾) (14) in. MATERIALS 3 (3) (3) (4) (4) (4) (4) 50g (125m) balls of Debbie Bliss Eco Baby (100% cotton) in Red (22); 2 (2) (3) (3) (3) (3) (4) balls in Tangerine (43);…

What you need to know and what he needs to do Prostate enlargement commonly starts around the age of 50 and symptoms (see below) affect three-quarters of men in their seventies. Most cases are benign (BPH), but one in eight men develops prostate cancer – there are around 47,000 new cases and over 10,000 deaths each year. But UK survival rates have tripled in the last 40 years, and more than 80% of affected men live at least another 10 years, thanks to earlier diagnosis and better treatments. Your man is more at risk as he gets older, and if he has a family history of prostate cancer, is black African/Caribbean, has had another cancer, or is tall or overweight. British researchers recently said that every four-inch increase in a…

Getting support would help Q My 83-year-old mother isn’t coping at home. She’s fallen a few times, been hospitalised twice and called the neighbours on several occasions when she felt frightened in the house. I’ve tried to talk to her about moving either to sheltered accommodation or a home but she just shouts at me and puts her fingers in her ears. Jane, Telford A This is such a difficult area for both the elderly parent and their children. Your mother is having to face her own frailty and mortality at the same time as possibly losing her home and security. It’s understandable that she feels vulnerable and scared, and therefore doesn’t want to listen. And as her child, you’re having to navigate new territory, that of offering advice to…

Where I went Devon – famous for cream teas (cream then jam versus Cornwall’s jam then cream), scrumpy and some of the most beautiful views in the UK. I decided to show my husband one of my favourite childhood holiday spots, Woolacombe Bay on the north coast of Devon – via somewhere completely new and equally breathtaking – Dartmoor. What I did We arrived in Ilsington, a sleepy picture-postcard village on the eastern edge of Dartmoor, and after a quick tour of the grounds of our hotel (see ‘Where I stayed’, below) we headed straight to the newly refurbished spa for a refreshing dip in the pool and a session in the steam room. A delicious meal in the restaurant overlooking the stunning scenery was the perfect way to end…

Of all the things we do for the men in our lives (cooking them tasty, nourishing meals, making their homes welcoming places to be, keeping their clothes clean, just to mention a few!), arguably one of the most important is the role we can play in helping them to take better care of their health. Men are notoriously bad at going to the doctor. All too often they leave it until their symptoms are severe – or worse, they simply refuse to acknowledge they need medical intervention. I realise I’m making sweeping generalisations here, but statistics do back me up. A survey by the Daily Mail found that only 14% of men said they’d happily see a doctor if needed. Just over half said they’d definitely consult a doctor if…

Toddlers Beach East You don’t have to go to the coast to get some sand between your toes – 1,000 tonnes of the stuff will be transported to the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London, to create an urban beach from 23 July until 4 September. For more, visit beacheast.co.uk Talkers The BFG Steven Spielberg’s take on the Roald Dahl book tells the story of Sophie, who enlists the help of a friendly giant to thwart the evil, man-eating giants who are invading the human world. Out on 22 July. Teens LIMF Summer Jam Join the likes of Lianne La Havas and Maverick Sabre for a weekend of live music in Sefton Park from 22 to 24 July, as part of Liverpool’s International Music Festival. Ticketed events will be happening across…

This week’s columnist Journalist and broadcaster Libby Purves A commercial survey recently found out that the average adult not only thinks that their grandparents are wiser than them, but remembers a staggering 22 pieces of their advice. Grannies in particular, it seems, are bubbling founts of wisdom, never dropping a stitch while emitting some pearl of sense (‘good manners cost nothing’) or nonsense (‘going out with wet hair gives you pneumonia’). Well! I feel seriously deprived here. The only grandmother around when I was growing up never offered a smidgeon of counsel, but merely sat in the greenhouse in the sun and sent us to buy Wild Woodbine cigarettes (she reckoned the smoke deterred greenfly). She would just force us to listen to her reciting gruesome poems like Billy’s Rose,…

1 Get a support network Ask a group of friends who you trust to be your support team. Pick friends you know won’t mind you calling them up at 2am because you can’t stop crying. Explain that you’ll need to rely on them for emotional and practical help for a few weeks, even with things like the school run or cleaning if you don’t feel up to it. This will be invaluable in getting you through the initial stages. 2 Set a time limit Accept that you’ll be grieving the loss of your marriage for a while and allow this to happen without being hard on yourself. But set a time limit on things, like four weeks until you meet up with a friend for coffee again or two months…

Summer Berry Meringues FOR THE COMPOTE: TO SERVE: 1 Heat the oven to 140°C or Gas Mark 1. Using an electric mixer, whisk the egg whites until stiff peaks form. Stop and check that the mixture doesn’t slide when the bowl is tipped. 2 Keep whisking and add just 1tbsp of the sugar at a time, mixing well after each addition. 3 Use 2 spoons to dollop 4 big pillows of meringue on to the lined baking sheet. Cook for 1 hour. Turn off the oven and leave them in the oven for a few hours, to cool. 4 Gently heat blackberries with the 2tbsp caster sugar and the cardamom pods, until the sugar dissolves. Turn up the heat and bubble for around…

Hardly anyone comes here. It’s way below the level of the road His gran’s right. She’s always right. She told him to stay in, after all the carry-on last night and he hasn’t stayed in. Said a lot of things, in fact. But he felt like a little boy in the house all alone and he was worried that the telephone might ring and he’d have to answer it. There’s nobody prouder than his gran about the telephone. Not everyone’s got one in the street, yet. It’s only to be used for emergencies, like last night, but if it rings then it can only be to say something bad. Duncan’s convinced of it. And it’s going to be his fault. His and Kevin Walker’s. Or at least Kevin Walker’s brother.…

Helen hasn’t ironed in a long time. When she finally manages to retrieve the iron, after digging around in the cupboard under the stairs where she keeps all her cleaning equipment, she’s mildly shocked by the half-inch layer of dust covering it. Then there’s the flex, frayed with use. How often in the early years had Paul felt obliged to demonstrate the right way to wind the flex around the plate, so as to avoid damage? Of course, she never took much notice back then. If the damn thing went up in flames, then it’d save her the trouble of having to iron his shirts, was how she looked at it. Ironing was a chore. She enjoyed the frisson of danger to make it bearable, she’d teased. Funny how she…

‘My eczema has completely gone’ I’ve suffered with eczema since I was a baby. As a teenager, it was particularly bad on my head and face and, despite trying different medications and creams, nothing really worked. By the time I was 21, I was taking steroids regularly. But,while they helped, they also made my face swell up – so I stopped taking them. For the next few years, I put up with it. I couldn’t even cover my eczema up with make-up, because removing it was painful and it aggravated my angry, red, itchy, flaky skin even more. This affected my self-confidence to such an extent that I stopped going out. The only time I left the house was to go to work – and even then I felt strangers…

Our Experts • Appliances • Internet • Digital • Animals • Finance/ consumer • Legal This Week FRANCES QUINN is a journalist who specialises in finance and consumer issues. She’ll answer your questions on everything from savings to shopping Q Is cash the cheapest way to pay for things when I’m on holiday abroad? Surprisingly, no. You get the best exchange rate when you use a credit card, because it’s based on the one banks get, so is usually better than the tourist rate that applies when you change money into cash. That can be cancelled out if your credit card company charges a fee for foreign currency purchases, which can be as much as £1.50 per transaction. But there are several cards that don’t, such as the Halifax Clarity…

‘Honestly, some people have no consideration’ The trouble with writing a weekly column of amusing domestic adventure is that, every so often, amusing domestic adventure stubbornly refuses to happen. Take this week. My friend Wendy, after weeks of worrying that she might have done the wrong thing by marrying her neighbour, Iain, has taken him off to the Maldives for a fortnight. This was a bit of a surprise, to be honest. I would have thought that Iain would feel more at home trudging his way across a damp footpath in the Scottish Highlands. Come to think of it, I never saw Wendy as somebody who took holidays in the Maldives, but perhaps she’s stretching her envelope. Is that the phrase that modern people use? It’s so difficult to keep…

Joanne Lilley, 48 Tell us about your look… My style is pretty casual – I don’t really do dressy clothes. I wear a lot of jeans with either blazers of leather jackets, although I do wear dresses in the summer. I’m wearing a Zara top and jacket, Dorothy Perkins jeans and Russell & Bromley shoes. I love shopping for clothes and my favourite shop is Zara – the prices are reasonable and their clothes fit me well because I’m small. And the best bit of your body? I like being petite – I’ve never wanted to be taller. YouWore It Well Joanne Spooner, 1959 ‘I was born in,Wimborne in Dorset in 1939. This photo was taken of me wearing a full-skirt dress and striped box jacket in Swanage, three years…

1 Think and plan carefully. It's one thing to visit somewhere briefly and fall in love with it but could you live there year round? 2 A rural area may work for you now – but what about in five, 10 or 20 years? Will you want to drive miles to buy a pint of milk? What’s the local public transport like? Will it suit you in retirement? 3 If you're thinking about moving abroad, consider the tax implications and what happens to your investments, etc. Get independent legal and financial advice from an English-speaking professional in the country you want to settle in. 4 Do your homework. A summer holiday won’t prepare you for the reality of living abroad. For example, resorts based on tourism can be dead in…

Walk Barefoot On The Grass The earth has a slightly negative charge so, when barefoot, we receive a surge of electrons from the ground (called the grounding effect). And being in nature can help lift your mood, according to a 2010 Japanese study. WORK UP A SWEAT ‘Exercising for 20 minutes a day can make you feel better by stimulating the release of mood-lifting endorphins,’ says Emer O’Neill, Chief Executive of the Depression Alliance. And get outside – fresh air and vitamin D produced in the body by exposure to sunlight will also help. In some studies, physical activity was found to be as effective as medication. Let Off Some Steam Sometimes you just have to find a release for that pent-up tension – particularly if you feel ready to…

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Utilise A Useful Alcove An alcove can be easily made-over: fix wall-to-wall shelves, make or buy a pull-out worktop/shelf (Ikea do rail runners) and hang up a curtain to hide everything away when you’re finished for the day. Convert Your Shed Relax in a lovely craft haven with a simple shed makeover. Make it comfy with a rug, lamp and accessories and practical with shelving and storage boxes. And don’t forget the electricity supply for lighting, heating and, maybe, a sewing machine. Make A Cosy Space With a compact console table and an empty corner you’re halfway there. Put up a selection of shelves, a cork or fabric board for pinning swatches and ideas, and stock up on pretty and useful wicker baskets. Get Creative In Your Attic Awkward areas…

• Easy-peasy • A Bit More Tricky • Hard–ish • Quite A Challenge YOU WILL NEED • Old T-shirt • Scissors • Cardboard 1 Cut the body of your old T-shirt into 2cm strips, seam to seam, then neatly trim the seams off each end. Cut two matching C-shapes out of cardboard, approximately 20cm in diameter – you could use a side plate to draw round. 2 Sandwich a strip of T-shirt between the two cardboard templates, so that the strip hangs out at each end. Wind the remaining strips around the templates, so that all of the card is covered – don’t pull the strips too tight or it will make the next step trickier. 3 Tie the two ends of the strip sandwiched between the templates together (don’t…

* So… That’s Why I’m Bonkers! A Girl’s Guide To Surviving The Menopause by Sheila Wenborne (£7.99, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform ) is aimed at breaking the taboo that surrounds this natural process. Sheila talks openly about her surprise at the diagnosis for her feeling so ‘dizzy-headed, grumpy, fat, sexually redundant, liable to burst into tears and totally depressed all the time’ was the menopause. Inspirational and enlightening, the book covers a wide range of topics, including dealing with symptoms both clinically and holistically.…