Seeing my jowly, wrinkled 55-year-old face and turkey neck looking mockingly back at me from the video call on my phone screen — a disturbing mix of the woman I once was and my mother during her twilight years — was bad enough.
But beside that of the plumped-with-collagen beauty of my 19-year-old daughter FaceTiming me from university, it was nothing short of misery-inducing.
Video-calling is Isobel’s preferred way of communicating since she left home, so this past year I’ve
I flinched when Seniesa Estrada took a shot. When she twisted to evade a jab, I found myself twisting, too. When she plowed a left hook into the jaw of her Argentine challenger, Leonela Yúdica, I hoped such aggression would lead to a knockout.
As Estrada defended her World Boxing Association and World Boxing Council mini flyweight titles on Friday in front of nearly 2,500 fans at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, I watched her fight from the
From stale Panettone and Christmas pudding to soggy Brussel sprouts and turkey, most households across the country will have food left over after the festive feast.
Data from investment website Up The Gains estimates we could collectively throw away 27 per cent of the food we buy for Christmas dinner – worth a staggering £100 million.
But it needn’t go in the bin. With a bit of imagination, leftovers can easily be turned into delicious meals.
From parsnip ice-cream to
