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Improving with age
Our ability to recall events seems to sharpen as we get older but can it be trusted, asks Lisa Jardine in her A Point of View column.
Have you noticed how as you get older your long-term memory seems to become increasingly sharp?
When I was in my teens I used to marvel at the facility of my elders to summon up complete passages of poetry or prose, while I fumbled for more than a phrase.
Venice Film Festival
First Night: Black Swan, Venice Film Festival, Opening Gala
Portman's scintillating turn as prima ballerina opens Venice festival in style
By Geoffrey Macnab
Thursday, 2 September 2010
Save our Hedgerows
Are we losing the fight to save our hedgerows?
A decade after the first legal moves to protect them, they are still under attack – and now they could fall victim to spending cuts
By Emily Dugan
Sunday, 29 August 2010
They are the living seams that have typified the British countryside for centuries. But now hedgerows are disappearing fast, and a report published tomorrow will say we are not doing enough to protect them.
Best temp job in town
Best temp job in town: Pop-up gardens are appearing across London thanks to one pioneering enthusiast
By Emma Townshend
Trundling along to buy a lunchtime sandwich the other day, admiring the floral bedding in my local park in Ealing, I spotted a little sign: "Pop-up Kitchen Garden". Now, we've heard of pop-up shops, restaurants and art galleries, but a pop-up vegetable garden? Exploring a little further, I found that a set of kitchen garden beds, neatly edged in wood, had materialised out of nowhere. It was a gorgeous surprise.
How to breed giants
Talk about a slow mover. Giant tortoise Biggie hasn't bred in 35 years so zookeepers bring in two new females ... and a young stud for competition
The Aviary Gate, Katie Hickman
The Aviary Gate,
by Katie Hickman
Beach huts the new des res
Beach huts in Scarborough are fetching £35,000, the same price as some one-bedroom flats in the town. So what do you get for your money, and why is the market for beach huts so buoyant?
"It was one of the most exciting moments in my life, having finally got a beach hut."
Margot Charlton's eyes gleamed. She has travelled the world and she loves to ski, but her Mablethorpe hut in Lincolnshire, with its saucy seaside characters painted on the outside, has been a lifelong ambition. And she is not alone.
Impressionist Gardens
Impressionist Gardens at the National Galleries of Scotland
One of the biggest draws of the festival this year is not a performance but a gorgeous exhibition of Impressionist art. A gardening enthusiast marvels as Monet, Renoir, Klimt and more turn their eyes to horticulture .
By Kylie O'Brien
Rise of the grey protester
The UK's over 50s have long since said goodbye to stereotypical age-associations of pipes and slippers and traded them for placards and petitions. New research shows that a huge number are at their most politically active today, and feel more passionate about protesting and standing up for what they believe in.
The selfish generation?
They've had the best of times. Now they're using their voting muscle to ensure their children inherit a far harsher world
The one piece of good news in the budget was that George Osborne restored the link between state pensions and earnings, which Margaret Thatcher broke in 1980. Osborne's decision comes just in time for the baby boomers – the children of the 1960s – to benefit.