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PGL Dalguise: The kind of holiday that makes you rethink everything

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It was risky, I’ll admit. I booked us a five-day break at PGL’s centre in Perthshire by way of a compromise. It’s very tricky finding something that will suit even some of us most of the time. There’s the 16-year-old culture vulture, his 14-year-old brother who only wants to go fast, the six-year-old with the […]

Becoming the Fitbit family in an attempt to stop things sagging further

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In another of those moments  they don’t tell you about, I found myself gazing at the bathroom mirror trying to work out if my earlobes had begun to droop or not. It turns out that time is something of a bitch, or maybe it’s gravity that the real villain. Either way, there’s no doubt about […]

Why the Duchess of Cambridge and I are so similar

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  So Kate is doing the Indian tour and what a lovely lot of outfits she’s chosen. Tasteful and appropriate, for the most part. Even the “common touch” cheap ones. I do the same thing… pop on something from George at Asda just so that everyone can see I’m, you know, one of them. Then […]

Ski-ing again after 10 years – things I learned

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Sloping off. On the piste. Whatever ski-related cliché you fancy – that was me the other day. I ski-ved off for a ski break with Fiona Outdoors to Morzine. Apart from the wee sojourn to Glencoe which doesn’t really count and a couple of runs on a dry slope in Llandudno (like you do), it […]