Tim Dowling

Tim Dowling It started more than a decade ago with looksmaxxing , a disturbing manosphere-based strategy for optimising personal appearance through diet, exercise, surgery or smashing your jawbone.

I do occasionally contemplate getting my toolbox out. But these are idle urges – I’m only too aware of the harm my past interventions have caused

Accompanying my wife on a morning walk is a humbling experience – not least because our pet enjoys better name recognition than I do

Tim Dowling I don't normally do the morning dog walk; it's my wife's thing. But we're going away for the weekend straight afterwards, so on

There is nothing woolly about the sheep awareness training a Kent farmer subjects our dog to

She says I’m not allowed to select books as I’m the only man and not a full member. But how could they not love Death Comes for the Archbishop?

Tim Dowling My wife would have everyone in our book club believe that the First Rule of Book Club is: Tim Is Never Allowed to Pick the Book.

In an app-based era, new dating tactics emerge rapidly and while you may have deployed one or been subject to one, how many of the following are real?

‘Can’t you just plug it in?’ asks our garage mechanic neighbour. If only it were that simple

On a Wednesday morning the doorbell rings while I'm working in the kitchen. My wife, who is expecting a delivery, opens the door. “No, I don't want brake pads,” she says.