Women | Life and Style from TimesOnline en-uk Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:37:29 GMT Copyright 2007 Times Newspapers Ltd. custserv@timesonline.co.uk http://www.timesonline.co.uk Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:13:29 GMT Newspapers 144 21 http://www.timesonline.co.uk http://images.thetimes.co.uk/TGD/picture/0,,116979,00.gif Alice Olins Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:01:00 GMT 2009-12-01T11:14:25Z There are those who plan, and there are those who arrive at work sodden. For Emma Watson, work is a Harry Potter premiere, but even movie glamour can’t protect a girl in full-length Chanel from a sodden red carpet. For any type of job, the same basic rules apply. Penny Wark Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:01:00 GMT 2009-11-30T09:34:30Z Joe hurls himself across the room on to a beanbag and then, as though he’s on a piece of elastic, bounds back and lands on a chair. Words tumble out of him at the same quicksilver pace. He darts around like a Shakespearean sprite, energetic and enchanting. Yet somehow he is hard to pin down. Chloe Lambert Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:01:00 GMT 2009-11-30T06:48:32Z This week marks a poignant anniversary for Maria McNeilly and her husband Alan. On November 30 last year, bright, chatty, Spanish-born Maria, who loves Strictly Come Dancing and chatting on the phone, suffered the first of a series of strokes that would leave her almost completely paralysed. Amanda Ursell Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:01:12 GMT 2009-11-30T10:39:19Z Can you suggest lower-alcohol drinks for Christmas? Edwina Ings-Chambers Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:00:34 GMT 2009-11-27T08:30:03Z Recent Elegance Dilemma number one: wearing a simple Grecian-style maxi dress for dinner, only to have my friend fall about laughing when she saw it: “No need for a ballgown, Ed. It’s just moules.” Ouch. Matthew Campbell in Paris Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:01:00 GMT 2009-11-29T01:07:20Z A South Korean supermodel whose apparent suicide in Paris a week ago sent shockwaves through the fashion industry reached out to a friend for help with relationship problems a few hours before she was found dead. Giles Hattersley Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:00:39 GMT 2009-11-25T07:13:14Z I am standing in a bijou cafe in Soho, central London, trying to spot an activist. It’s not easy — certainly not as easy as the days when you could smell them a mile off. My eyes flit about, trying to alight on a telltale sign: Thai-dye banana, hessian skirt, a scowl. Professor Tanya Byron Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:01:00 GMT 2009-11-30T06:50:37Z Dear Tanya, My elderly parents still live in the family home where they have been for 45 years. My dad is fairly fit for 83 but my mum is arthritic and needs a wheelchair. We are a family of four siblings but my brother is in the Army so cannot be included in any caring. My youngest sister and I work full time and my middle sister has given up her job to be around for the many hospital appointments my parents have — my dad recently had surgery and spent three weeks there. Anne Sebba Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:58 GMT 2009-11-24T06:01:15Z "I was 10 years old. I remember visiting my mother in prison and feeling so angry. I couldn’t hold her and couldn’t touch her. I knew my mother was not a thief, not a criminal, not a killer. She had done nothing wrong. She was a hero to me because she was fighting for my rights,” explains Ali Abu Awwad, a West Bank former revolutionary. “From the start this was a personal violation for me more than something political. Later, both of us were in the prison in Hebron. I was arrested at 15 under an Israeli military law and sentenced to four years. My mother, a well-known PLO activist, was in the women’s prison there but I saw her only once.” Rosemary Bennett, Social Affairs Correspondent Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:01:00 GMT 2009-11-29T06:42:24Z Mothers face an uphill struggle when they return to work, according to research that found most companies do little to help them to settle back in, even though a year off on maternity leave is now the norm.