Lily Renton (Izabela Vidovic) is the star of her school’s Quiz Bowl Team but she longs to be like the pretty celebrities and popular schoolmates she admires. She wishes, just once, someone would think of her as beautiful rather than smart. Her wish comes true when a substitute teacher introduces her to an invite-only beauty app that magically transforms her appearance. However, there are consequences so Lily must decide what’s really important in life. It’s faith that underpins the stripped-down, cello-embellished country blues Denial, where “ afraid of losing Everything that I’ve worked to become” he sings, metaphorically, how “ at the death of a father /A son has finally come to life”, closing with “ Rely on Jesus Christ/I can finally see the light”. It was the perfect place to stay for an end-of-summer Bournemouth holiday. Right on the beach, with the sea there ready and waiting every morning.

Ancient peoples and cultures lived and still live from a deep understanding of our individual and collective power and influence over each moment that unfolds. Modern and ancient teachings all point in the same direction; we are the creators of our own reality and we all have the potential to move our lives in any direction we chose. A life guided by the heart and filled with love, compassion, community, collaboration and a deep connection to spirit is one that raises the vibration of the entire planet, universe and every life form within it. Yes, you are that powerful. Following the river, crowded with sailing boats, SUP-ers, and gangs of moody swans, I arrive at the Captains Club Hotel and Spa. I dine out on the terrace overlooking the river, enjoying a short-lived sunny spell. The report surveyed 2,006 people, who were asked whether they had watched or taken part in grassroots sport during the past 12 months.It’s been a killer season for teen and tween horror lately, with Nightbooks scaring up“enough fantasy flourishes to ignite young minds” and the Fear Street trilogy showing us just how scary R.L. Stine’s horror fiction can be. Quantum mechanics tells us that the universe is made up of fields of vibration that are interconnected, unified, in constant communication and that act independently of time and distance; where everything in the universe is made of energy, is connected to and contributes to, the whole. Yes, you are connected to everything that exists in the past, present and future.

There’s some comedy here, mostly in the way that Sam has to try and blend in with his new family. But it’s also sad, especially the happier it gets. There’s an overwhelming sense that all of this is temporary. As Sam’s mom and dad gradually come around to the idea that he’s telling the truth, and spend lots of time together at the lumber yard and a diner, Sam’s real reality begins to encroach on them. He sees the destroyed version of his own world; the collapsed treehouse, surrounded by devastation. He runs the risk of getting trapped there if he takes too long, which means that sooner rather than later he has to leave this idyllic version of his perfect life and return to his own, the one where he lost the man he loves most in the whole world. Avett on harmonies, with the softly melodic and rhythmically puttering Roger Ebert, in which he takes the legendary film critic’s dying words (“ It’s all an elaborate hoax”) as the jumping-off point for a meditation on the mysteries of life and death and “ the vastness that can’t be contained…it’s everything everywhere future and past/Dissolving together in an eternal flash”. Recorded mainly on Avett’s farm in North Carolina with Band of Horses bassist Bill Reynolds and The Avett Brothers drummer Mike Marsh as the rhythm section, the finishing touches were laid down in Nashville with contributions from Old Crow Medicine Show fiddler Ketch Secor and Avett Brothers cellist Joe Kwon. The house was designed by Lord and Lady Russel-Cotes in the early 1900s, as a gift from Merton to his wife Annie. Avid travellers, the pair filled the villa with art, antiques, and exotic curios collected on their trips. As I overheard one guest put it, “they liked clutter”. Down the hill, the area around Bournemouth Pier is still buzzing with holiday vibes. I stop for a picnic on the beach – and the obligatory 99′ ice cream – before leaving the tourists behind and turning into Bournemouth’s gardens.Other vintage retailers were never Beyond Retro’s competition anyway, he says. It was “the high-street guys” they were always up against (online sales in the UK are predicted to account for just 20% of its revenue next year). In March this year, Beyond Retro opened a store in Westfield White City, west London. Was he worried that expanding into a bright, shiny shopping mall alongside fast fashion retailers might muddy Beyond Retro’s reputation for authenticity, not to mention its sustainability objectives? Of the golfers and golf spectators polled, some 64% said they had encountered disruption to the sport such as rescheduling, reduction in length of matches or cancellation, the report said. I sit with a glass of wine, watching the stars come out and the lights of ships out at sea. No TV, no scrolling on my phone. Just me, the empty beach, and the sounds of the waves.It’s bliss – and exactly the kind of holiday I needed! A long, thin strip of white sand lined with colourful beach huts, it also marks the endpoint of the 61-mile-long River Stour. The Lower, Central and Upper Gardens cut a long, green strip through Bournemouth town centre, following the narrow River Bourne. Dating from the Victorian era, filled with lawns and flower gardens – as well as more modern attractions like miniature golf – this narrow park forms a gorgeous centrepiece to the town.