MAGGIE ALDERSON: For in a world where the majority of TV sex is either violent or gritty, the joy of Bridgerton is that its sensitive, yet saucy, love scenes are something glorious to celebrate.
Maggie Alderson says black 50 deniers have an ultra-flattering effect on the legs. However, she explains that this winter she will be living in trousers as an alternative to tights torture.
Hate camping? These 20 stunning sites will change your mind
Britain’s campsites reopen fully tomorrow, some with luxury improvements – but will they be enough to entice camping virgins and refuseniks?
16 May 2021 • 6:00am
Camping veteran Simon and lifelong tent refusenik Siân arrive at Fforest Farm in Cilgerran, Pembrokeshire, for her first ever night under canvas
Credit: Siân Parry-Lewis
Some time around 1980, my wife Siân woke up with her head in a cow pat and vowed never to go camping again. Her Brownies leader had taught her how to put up a tent, but not to avoid camping on a slope. She never did get that badge.
The image of thin Jack Sprat and his rather cuddlier wife he could eat no fat, while she could eat no lean has been around for generations. But in the increasingly sensitive modern world, few couples would enjoy being compared to the pair from the nursery rhyme.
A new term is now being used to celebrate partners of different sizes: ‘mixed-weight’.
Embraced with pride by couples who pose on social media alongside the hashtag #mixedweight, the phrase is meant to remove any embarrasment around size disparity in a loving relationship. But critics have claimed the term is just the latest (slightly more subtle) way to body-shame.