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Baby Makes Six: From reluctant tenters to happy campers

Baby Makes Six: From reluctant tenters to happy campers

A camping trip is, for me, the definition of summer vacation. I grew up under canvas and next to campfires, spending my days on sun-warmed beaches or in the rain-soaked screen tent.

A winery tour ‘without long drives’

Sharon McLean is a wine writer, wine instructor for the Arts Institute of Vancouver, a master of wine student and a veteran wine expert with the Taste Festival. She offered some salient tips on tasting B.C. wines.

Rosa Harris: Later years the age of invention

“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
Taste Festival’s seminars on food, wine a hot draw

Taste Festival’s seminars on food, wine a hot draw

What: Taste Festival of Food and Wine When: July 25 to 28 Where: Various locations, downtown Victoria Tickets: $19 to $89 Information: victoriataste.com Whether you enjoy discussing the molecular makeup of a particular B.C.

Nudge, Nudge: Smoking jacket optional at the book club for men

Rules for the men’s book club. 1. You do not talk about the men’s book club. 2. If one guy says “stop” or goes limp during a book-related discussion, the conversation is over. 3.

Month of conception can affect newborn's health

LOS ANGELES — It’s still an old wives’ tale that a woman can plan her child’s sex by timing the month when she conceives, but a new study has found that babies conceived at certain times of the year may be predisposed to adverse health outcomes, such
Princess Diana ‘the worst cook,’ says her former personal chef

Princess Diana ‘the worst cook,’ says her former personal chef

FORT WORTH, Texas — Like every mother, the late Princess Diana wore many hats (in her case, tiaras) when she was raising her sons, William and Harry. But she didn’t, apparently, have one to hang in the kitchen.

Everything tastes better with a Mexican spin

My dad instilled in me a lot of important qualities, the kind any father would hope to pass along to his growing child — determination, an unceasing pursuit of knowledge, a strong work ethic.
Swimming for a cause

Swimming for a cause

A Victoria woman with multiple sclerosis will take to the water July 20 to swim the 34-kilometre length of Lake Cowichan.

The Doctor Game: Elephants never forget to stick to a high-fibre diet

Would you like to have your picture taken in the nude, sitting on a toilet? Then have the photo published in a national newspaper? Surely we’d all sue for such an indignity.