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Piston broke

Why classic car fans are eternal optimists… As a child I never owned a teddy bear – I took Matchbox cars to bed with me and they slept under the corner of my pillow. I’m sure a psychiatrist could paint an alarming picture of the deeply troubled four...

Will Holman

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Leave your kids at home and have your own post-Brexit holiday (it’s cheaper and more fun)

Comedian Simon Evans (desperately trying to afford a holiday) says organise a sleepover for your children, go to post-Trump Mexico, or just hang out at the local stately home Among the wealth of economic body blows innocent middle-aged Brits have...

Simon Evans

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Would you take acid to help your depression?

For many people, depression or mental illness is something they’ve lived with for years, often treated without success or without long term solutions. But a rising tide of evidence seems to be supporting the use of microdosing (taking tiny amounts...

Sam Harrington-Lowe

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Who wants to live forever?

We are living longer, and staying younger and fitter later into our lives than ever before, and a number of contributory factors supports this – better medicine and health care, good diets, lucky genetics even. But now the Geekdom of Silicon Valley...

Sam Harrington-Lowe

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Keith Mooring 59 and single www.thetonic.co.uk

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Single man, 59, GSOH, own hair, expanding girth. Bewildered and confused.

Recently finding himself single after nearly three decades of marriage, Keith is finding it hard to know how things work any more… I was happily married for 29 years. Well, most of those years were happy. Things started to fade and fizzle out as...

Keith Mooring

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I forgave my husband’s affair because we’ve got too much to lose

Finding out your other half has betrayed you can rock – and divide – families and households. But everyone’s way of dealing with this is different.. It has never been easier to uncover an infidelity than it is today...

Christabel Smith

Health benefits of pumpkin and the history of Halloween www.thetonic.co.uk

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The history of Halloween and the health benefits of the humble pumpkin

Sam Harrington-Lowe

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Where are you going once you’re dead?

Have you given careful consideration to what happens to you, once you’ve shuffled off this mortal coil?! No, this isn’t an existential or spiritual question. Much more an earthly matter of the flesh, and something I...

Diana Jones

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Family feuds the Tonic www.thetonic.co.uk

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Family competitions and inheritance wars

Christabel Smith

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Walking Scandi-style

Don’t fancy the gym? Walk this way… Love exercise, but baffled as to why anyone would put themselves through the kind of pain that is a marathon or triathlon? Want to get fitter without ending up in physio...

Becky Dickinson