February 2024

A final wild gift: who’d have guessed this time with Dad as he’s dying could be so ineffably precious?

As Myfanwy Jones and her family cared for her father in his last days, she was struck by the beauty, the memory and the burrowing in Dad keeps asking for a half-pint of cold milk. He doesn’t talk of dying but of going home. And it’s some consolation that the cabbage-y room in the aged […]

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The moment I knew: my retinas were scanned, my fingerprints copied – I would make all kinds of concessions to be with him

A 30-hour journey divided Brydie Lee-Kennedy from Tobi. But she was determined to tackle visa bureaucracy to commit to the person she’d only known for a short while In my mid-20s I did what many young, mobile Australians do and took advantage of the Youth Mobility visa, which allowed me to move to the UK

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This is how we do it: ‘Keeping Fridays free for sex helps us get through our stressful weeks’

Ava and Lucas’s full-on lives mean they have to carve out time for intimacy – even if it’s just for a quickie How do you do it? Share the story of your sex life, anonymously Intimacy gives me the ability to remind myself I am loved and needed, in the face of this constant string

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