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  • Dating and romance: Why married couples should go on dates

    The irony of married life is that you live together but rarely have time to talk. Perhaps I should qualify that: married life with children. You bark shopping lists at each other, discuss who's picking up from ballet, argue over the washing up and accuse each other of losing the gas bill. But you very rarely indulge in the kind of rambling, inconsequential, flirtatious nonsense that makes you delight in each other's company: the long conversations that put the world to rights and make you realise why you got together in the first place.

  • English apples are the superfood of the gods

    Few autumnal pleasures surpass sinking your teeth into the blushing virgin flesh of a sweet, yet ever so subtly tart, English apple. If you can find one, that is. Shoppers at Morrisons in Herne Bay were scandalised to find this week that they were being offered Chinese-grown fruit, even though the store is a mile from one of Kent's lush orchards.