Saga Magazine

6 days ago | saga.co.uk | Anna Smith

Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs star in this touching, slow-burning adaptation of Raynor Winn’s prize-winning memoir. Ray (Anderson) and her husband Moth (Isaacs) are finding middle-age life harder than most. They’re homeless after a bad investment, and Moth has been given a devastating medical diagnosis. The kids have left home, and they’re skint. With nowhere else to go, the couple decides to walk the 630-mile South West Coastal Path from Somerset, camping in a shoddy tent along the way.

1 week ago | saga.co.uk | Jayne Cherrington-Cook

While the UK recycles approximately 44% of its household waste, imagine how much more we could achieve if everyone truly understood the language of those tiny recycling symbols. These symbols are placed onto product packaging to indicate how to successfully dispose of and recycle them, but do you know what they actually mean for your local council’s sorting system?

1 week ago | saga.co.uk | Lebby Eyres

Visitors and residents of Basel are going to enjoy one ‘massive party’ when the Eurovision circus rolls into town from 10 to 17 May. The city won the bid to host the event after Switzerland’s act Nemo was victorious last year – triggering a contest between destinations in the country. Basel played up its location – positioned close to the German and French borders, it’s a truly cosmopolitan destination – and its desire to create a city-wide party.

1 week ago | saga.co.uk | Amy Cutmore

"Ne'er cast a clout till May is out," this old saying may refer to not putting away our winter clothes until the end of May, but it rings true for our gardens too. Spring weather in the UK can be fickle at the best of times. A late spring temperature drop is a shock to our garden’s system as well as ours. Just as shrubs are regaining their green foliage and saplings pluck up the confidence to poke their heads above the soil, they’re greeted with an icy shock.

1 week ago | saga.co.uk | Joe Fattorini

Australian Chardonnay stopped being fashionable at a single dinner party, above a pub sometime in the late-1990s. The pub was the Queen Vic in EastEnders. The hosts were Grant and Tiffany Mitchell. They invited Phil and Kathy and shared a bottle of something that looked a lot like Lindeman’s Bin 65 Chardonnay. I remember writing an article about it. You won’t find people recommending that sort of wine in London’s East End today.