Would you let your family choose your life partner? I'm not sure that I would and I know that in my twenties I would definitely have opposed any suggestion my mother might have made. Looking back though - isn't hindsight a wonderful thing - I can see that what my mother said on various subjects has largely been proven to be right. These days knowing that my mother was right on most of those occasions when we'd clashed before, I am much more likely to go with her suggestions and when she gives advice to my nieces (her grand-daughters) I do back her up, telling them that "Grandma always knows what she's talking about". But what if it was more than ...  Read the complete review

A recent and unashamedly frivolous survey worked out that women spend three whole years of their lifetime getting ready to go out. Most guys know that feeling all too well. Although the relatively speedy getting up and ready for work routine is a respectable 40 minutes on average for the girls the going out at night time 'prep' is nearly double that time. The cosmetics people at Nephria reckon women spend on average 112 minutes messing around with last-minute outfit changes, twirls in front of the mirror, and, of course, the dreaded handbag rummaging, before the front door clicks shut, only to be opened again because she forgotten to close the window in the bathroom. But  Read the complete review