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I used to teach menopause yoga at Liverpool John Moores University, and I think about the women in those classes quite often, because they were some of the most impressive women I have ever met.

We are all born bored and seek to busy ourselves, which is much easier when young, as novel things abound.

Tonight I am going to a festival where the theme is Y2K, and getting dressed for it has made me wonder how much of what I remember is actually the year 2000 and how much is the serious business of being a thirteen-year-old girl.

By Maxine Sharples ‘Animals have become diverse, weird and beautiful.’

Fine Yoga is not an appraisal of my yoga teaching over the last six years, but the name of my beloved retreat centre in Wuhan, China, where I am writing this from.

A foreign observer pays £97 to Chinese property developers to watch a rocket named after a communist retreat.

A month before I leave China, I decide to write everything I love and hate about it.

Two years earlier, Hardman Street.