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Nicolas Cage, who is starring in the sequel to Ghost Rider. Picture: AFP

Interview: Nicolas Cage, actor

The prospect of an encounter with Nicolas Cage is daunting. but the ghost rider star saves his demented energy for iconic performances on the big screen

Lynn McClean conserves The Rhind Mummy from the late 1st Century. Picture: Julie Bull

Mummy’s the word: Unwrapping the past with Fascinating Mummies

Our obsession with mummies, curses and what lies beneath those linen bandages is set to be explored in a new national exhibition, explains Alice Wyllie

Aberdeen ski club members pictured sometime in the 1960s

Roger Cox: Stop the bus! Let me in on some of those old-time skiing stories and drop me off down memory lane

A FEW weeks ago in this slot I wrote about how we should stop harking back to “golden ages” and get on with enjoying the here and now. Well, I take it back. Sometimes harking back to golden ages can be a blast.

Janet Christie: She was talked out by “The Nice People”

THE bathroom is Occupied. Youngest’s lock-in protest tactic shows no sign of abating and I’m working on eviction. The boys veto lock removal for fear of being walked in on.

Health: Traditional Indian massage

‘I hope you’re not driving after this treatment,” says my therapist, Frances. Thankfully, I’d already decided that I’d get the bus, once I’d experienced her relaxing Mukhabhyanga Natural Face Lift Massage.

Features

Gadget review: MakerBot Replicator 3D Printer

PICTURE the scene - you’ve just broken the hook that holds your vacuum cleaner nozzle in place. No longer can your Dyson rest tidily in the cupboard; every time the door is opened its elephant-like trunk spills out.

Interiors: Beach house, Rosneath Peninsula

The reworking of a fabulously placed but uninspired bungalow has created a surprisingly un-Scottish beach house

Wine: There’s more choice than ever before for those who think pink

IF YOU are celebrating Valentine’s Day at home this year with your loved one and need a suitable wine to impress, you might be encouraged to hear that there are now more rosés to choose from than ever before.

International travel: Sri Lanka

With magnificent temples and wildlife, a trip to Sri Lanka is the experience of a lifetime

Travel: London

WE ALL know the story of the town mouse and the country mouse. There’s a moral in there somewhere, I’m sure of it, though what I’ve decided to take from it is that even the most devoted town mouse or comfortable country mouse can learn something from the occasional change of scenery.

Food & Drink

Wine: There’s more choice than ever before for those who think pink

IF YOU are celebrating Valentine’s Day at home this year with your loved one and need a suitable wine to impress, you might be encouraged to hear that there are now more rosés to choose from than ever before.

Wine: Northern Italy has much in common with its neighbour

ONE OF Italy’s most beautiful regions is, strangely, its least-known and least-visited. Up in the far north, hugging the Austrian border, Alto Adige has the potential to compete with the world’s most vivid aromatic whites in its high-altitude mountainous vineyards.

Food: Take advantage of the season with pots of zesty orangey sunshine

THE Seville orange season is all too brief, and we need to make the most of it during these few weeks when we can buy these delectable oranges. M

Mithas in Dock Place, Leith. Picture: Jayne Wright

Restaurant review: Mithas, Dock Place, Edinburgh

SLOTH. That’s my only excuse for taking so long to visit this Indian restaurant – which opened last summer.

When it’s chilly outside, and you live at the other end of the capital, it can feel as if you have to cross two time zones to get to the bottom of Leith.

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Wine: A classic Austrian grape is thriving in New Zealand

As a big fan of Austrian wines, I was fascinated to taste the first results of their most popular grape now coming on stream in New Zealand.

Outdoors

'Skulking makes them harder to detect'. Picture: Patrick Pleul/Getty

Outdoors: Jay bird - a sight for sore ears

FOR such a beautiful bird, the jay has the most awful call. It is not even worth trying to find some redeeming quality in the sharp, strident, hissing screech that conjures up an image of an incredibly bad-tempered bird that likes nothing better than to spend its time bickering and scolding.

Walk of the week: Creag Ruadh

MINUS 2C at the start of the walk, but with no breeze; a crisp sunny blue-sky day – January days don’t come any better.

Fishing and Shooting: “I only have to appear in plus fours and Crumpet starts turning cart wheels”

TO MORAY for my annual grown-up shoot with grown-up people; by which I mean people who really know how to shoot, not just muck about.

Jonathan Trew: Werner Herzog once cooked and ate his own shoe

WITH the possible exception of “audience participation”, few words are likely to scare away a crowd faster than the thought of work that is “challenging”. Yet presenting challenging work is pretty much the manifesto of the Manipulate Visual Theatre Festival currently running at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh.

Sarah Burke was at the peak of her powers. Picture: Getty

Roger Cox: Sarah Burke’s death reopens the debate about extreme sports

TO WATCH Canadian freeskier Sarah Burke’s gold medal-winning superpipe run from last year’s X-Games in Aspen, Colorado, is to see that rarest of things: an athlete at the absolute peak of their powers doing something mind-bogglingly difficult and not only making it look easy, but also making it look fun.

Travel

International travel: Sri Lanka

With magnificent temples and wildlife, a trip to Sri Lanka is the experience of a lifetime

Travel: London

WE ALL know the story of the town mouse and the country mouse. There’s a moral in there somewhere, I’m sure of it, though what I’ve decided to take from it is that even the most devoted town mouse or comfortable country mouse can learn something from the occasional change of scenery.

Seaplanes: a unique experience, but not for the faint-hearted. Picture: Helen Pugh

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