Bm@il: Looking like Cleopatra and mascara'd to max

I READ that one in three women won't step out of the house without a touch of lipstick, a lick of mascara or even the whole works: a fully made-up face. The one option they won't ever consider is the bare-faced look.Read

Bm@il: Forced to admit I'm an old git

EASTER is a Christian festival now but, of course, it dates back much further. One legend centres on a Saxon goddess who helped an injured bird through the winter by changing it into a hare that laid eggs.Read

Bm@il: These stars will never fade

WHEN I was a new reporter, one of my first contacts was Netta Sands, who sadly died last year.Read

Bm@il: Fat pigeons and a robin

FOLLOWING my public humiliation with the ducks, you'd think I'd have learned my lesson. Remember how I proudly (smugly?) proclaimed I was feeding them during the cold spell? Then readers emailed me to point out bread was very bad for them. Oops.Read

Bm@il: Pirouetting fly-on-the-wall

ALTHOUGH I'm generally fed up with fly-on-the-wall shows at the moment, I have been watching Agony and Ecstasy: A Year with English National Ballet on BBC Four.Read

Bm@il: Spare us these celebs

I DON'T know about you, but I'm getting really sick of seeing celebrities picking over the lives of disadvantaged communities before jetting home to put the finishing touches to their oh-socaring documentaries.Read

Bm@il: Link between Charlie Chaplin and those gypsy weddings

I WAS thrilled to read this week that Charlie Chaplin may have been born in my neck of the woods and not in London, as has always been thought. Read

Bm@il Long live Elizabeth III?

Every week Barbara Fisher looks at issues that affect us all - the issues that get you talking. you can join in by emailing bmailbarbara@googlemail.com Read

Bm@il: Some bakingly painful puns every week

Barbara Fisher looks at issues that affect us all - the issues that get you talking. you can join in by emailing bmailbarbara@googlemail.comRead

Bm@il: Hearty news for veg-heads

SO NOW it's eight a day we should be eating: that's fruit and vegetables of course.Read

Bm@il: True meaning of 'bodyguard'

WASN'T it fascinating to read the recent news about the alleged affair between a politician's wife and her husband's bodyguard?Read

Bm@il: An appetite for friendships

ISN'T it great to still be in touch with people you've known since you were at school?Read

Bm@il: Walking a dog into danger

IT HAS already started: the inevitable newspaper reports about dog owners diving in to freezing water to save their pets. It happens every year during the winter months, and I can't work out why.Read

Bm@il: Healthcare at the checkout

help to parents of young children, and are one of the better ideas of the last government, so he is right to defend them. However, I'm not sure I'd have recommended they be handed over to GPs, groups of parents and charities to be run as co-operatives.Read

Bm@ail: Aren't GPs busy enough with the day job?

Every week, Barbara Fisher looks at issues that affect us all - the issues that get you talking. You can join in by emailing bmailbarbara@googlemail.comRead

Bm@il: delights among the ice

HAPPY New Year! We won't forget 2010 in a hurry, particularly the end of it, thanks to weeks of stubborn snow that transformed our landscape and turned us into refugees from David Lean's film Dr Zhivago.Read

Bm@il: Loss for all on the cards

IDO hope you are sending Christmas cards this year. This lovely tradition is in decline, and it's not only charities that will lose out if they disappear: we all will.Read

Bm@il: Still living the good life

I WAS intrigued by the recent programme on BBC Two which tried to recreate The Good Life. The environmentally friendly way of living was the theme for the sitcom starring Felicity Kendal and Richard Briers, set in Surbiton, but filmed 35 years ago in Northwood.Read

Bm@il: Ddispelling only child myth

IF YOU still nurse strange ideas about only children being sad and isolated, a recent survey should help dispel these thoughts.Read

Bm@il: Mementoes and Ki-Moon's email

IT WILL be exactly a year on Sunday since my mum died, and I've been putting off sorting boxes which contain masses of mementoes she couldn't bear to throw away.Read

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