There was a time when being unavailable was completely normal. If someone wanted to speak to you, they phoned the house and hoped you were in. If you went out, nobody knew exactly where you were. If you were going away for the weekend, you didn't spend the journey sending updates to everyone you knew. You simply went. For Gen X, that probably sounds less like a historical curiosity and […]

England fast bowler Mark Wood has announced his retirement from international cricket with immediate effect. The thirty-six-year-old, one of the fastest bowlers ever to play for England, has faced frequent injury setbacks throughout his career. The Durham paceman only returned to action in the first Ashes Test in Perth last November after eight months out following knee surgery. However, he bowled just eleven overs before suffering knee swelling, flying home […]

Few meals inspire quite as much opinion as breakfast. Lunch can be whatever happens to be available, dinner can change completely from one day to the next, but breakfast seems to come with rules. Everybody has a preference, most people have strong opinions about what belongs on the plate, and somewhere along the line we have all decided that our way of doing breakfast is perfectly reasonable while somebody else's […]