Elizabeth Day: How billionaire house hunters saved my sanity

Elizabeth Day: How billionaire house hunters saved my sanity By Elizabeth Day for You Magazine Published: 00:01 GMT, 7 March 2021 | Updated: 00:01 GMT, 7 March 2021 Styling: Holly Elgeti. Make-up: Nicky Weir using Hourglass Beauty. Hair: Alex Szabo at Carol Hayes using T3 Haircare. Dress, Temperley London. Earrings, Motley x Scott Wilson. Rings, … Read more

TOM UTLEY: I’ve found sanity ironing underwear in lockdown but if pubs don’t open soon I’ll go potty

Good old Kirstie Allsopp is right. Ironing tea towels really is a therapeutic experience — and God knows we could all do with more of those in these trying times. Indeed, I flatter myself that I write with a degree of authority, since I’m something of an obsessive ironer myself. What’s more, as long-suffering readers … Read more

Women’s jobs, self-worth and sanity are going to the wall, says home-schooling mother FLORA WATKINS

One afternoon at the height of Lockdown 1.0, my husband found me sitting on our bed thinking of ending my life. I’d put our baby down for her nap and settled our two little boys in front of a film. Then I went up to our room. How could I, the happily married mother of … Read more

ROBERT HARDMAN: Ban on singing national anthem at armistice events shows Covid threatens our sanity

As if this week’s threats of police raids on over-sized Christmas Day gatherings were not barmy enough, then along comes something even sillier: a ban on singing the national anthem. Even the Welsh Government’s comedy order prohibiting the sale of kettles does not come close to the absurdity of forbidding loyal ex-servicemen and women and … Read more

Sequins, songs, kids… dance! This is what saved SOPHIE ELLIS-BEXTOR’s sanity during lockdown

….and her wonderfully joyous discos filmed in the family kitchen helped lift the nation’s spirits too. She tells Hattie Crisell why Friday nights round at hers became so precious  Getting into the groove! Sophie with, from left, Kit, 11, Ray, eight, Jesse, four, and husband Richard Sophie wears dress, rotate by Birger Christensen at brownsfashion.com. … Read more