Zeitgeist
Avril has found a great little beauty salon that is slashing 50 per cent off a selection of its favourite treatments. She has sent an email out to all her friends: "Dear girls, no excuses for chipped nail varnish in these trying times . . . nothing provides a boost to downturn morale like a half-price facial!"
No need to get puffed up about past
So it is with the inhouse publication of the Center for Tobacco Control, Research and Education at the University of California San Francisco, which has been campaigning for greater restrictions on the right to smoke ever since, well, the Native Americans started this whole passive smoking thing with their so-called "pipes of peace". Pipes of death, more like, as the centre would doubtless dub them. Who were those Red Indians trying to fool?
Keeping sight of a normal life
Having a disability should not stop you realising your dreams, whatever they may be. That is the feisty message from a determined man who practises what he preaches.
Nature's own
Sweet Recipes to provide comfort in the winter months


