I’d like you to meet my brilliant uncle … There’s nothing like having a famous uncle. As a small child, growing up in the relatively sheltered city of Brussels (where my father was working) and then near Abergavenny in the…

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‘When your mind is free of fear and tension, your body can be free of pain and will function as it was created to do so.’   This sentence was said by Marie Mongan, founder of the HypnoBirthing Institute and…

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Its the day after Boxing Day and I’m sat on an Aeroflot plane to Moscow. I’ve just been offered something completely unrecognisable as supper and have already grown bored of trying to feign interest in the all-Russian in-flight magazine. Nice…

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