Living

Its damaging effects are far more serious than you might think. How limescale in your water supply is impacting on both you and your home.

Once a week former London lawyer Rach Cox visits the OX offices and leads us in a yoga session, however one afternoon last month the instructor allowed everyone the hour off and instead spoke to the editorial team about her route into yoga and the wellbeing and reggae festival she runs, Om & Bass...

Our resident interior designer, Amanda Hanley, answers your questions about sofas, textures, patterns and colours...

Lying little over 40 km (24 miles) off the north coast of Iceland, and straddling the Arctic Circle, the tiny island of Grímsey is a green, grassy and particularly agreeable island, standing alone far out on the horizon, a seemingly blue anvil of rock, surrounded by the inhospitable Arctic Ocean. Grímsey is home to little more than one hundred people (and a million seabirds) and is an utterly pure and separate world from the rest of Iceland. As the country’s remotest (inhabited) offshore island, Grímsey grants the traveller the gift of isolation and windswept beauty...

Time was when the closest any man got to ‘grooming’ was watching sportsmen du jour such as Henry Cooper, Kevin Keegan and Barry Sheene splash Brut 33 all

If you love cars and you love driving, then spending a weekend behind the wheel of one of the world’s greatest GTs on some of the UK’s finest roads is a pipedream. It’s Father’s Day, and both significant other and children have given you permission to do just that, for a whole weekend. You jump at the chance of course. So here’s to living the dream… 

Entering into its tenth year of community celebration and eclectic entertainment, the many venues of Burford Festival will, from Thursday 6 June, open their doors for a week and a half of concerts, open gardens, talks, workshops and performances...

Sam met Jeremy Clarkson at the launch of Mollie’s Motel & Diner, where he agreed to an OX interview, expressing enthusiasm for the survival of print media. It’s where he comes from, “I’ve obviously got a soft spot for it,” he says down the phone a few months on, “I started out as a trainee reporter on the Rotherham Advertiser, and I’ve written for newspapers ever since...