It's always five o'clock somewhere, goes the sot's adage. This sound principle may also be applied to the seasonality of fruit and vegetables. These days, the year-round availability of everything from Peruvian asparagus to Dutch tomatoes is pretty much ubiquitous in UK supermarkets. Such disregard

If you had to rank the following supermarkets – Tesco, Sainsbury's, Lidl,Marks & Spencer and Waitrose – according to how much they cared for their customers' nutritional wellbeing, who would come out top and bottom? I ask because Aldi has announced plans to ban sweets and chocolate from its

Have you seen an urban outdoor gym in a park near you? In recent years, local councils have been trying to tackle our national couch potato problem by investing in obstacles and machines in public outdoor spaces that are free, and easy to use.The main provider of these spaces, The Great Outdoor Gym

I remember my first week with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, on stage at the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau singing, Sir Georg Solti conducting. Although I had a number of years behind me playing in provincial orchestras, nothing prepared me for the perceived “big-time”