You’ll need to hand over your phone before you can grab a coffee at the Netherlands’ Offline Club, or attend a music event from Off the Radar. Why are the Dutch so keen on digital detoxes – and are there lessons for the rest of the world?When I walk into Amsterdam’s Cafe Brecht, I immediately want to take a picture. The old-fashioned bar – with its...

Running had been my identity, my career, my life. One beautiful spring day, I realised it wasn’t enoughI have Jane Fonda to thank for my fitness “discovery” in the late 1980s. Still in my teens, I wore through the carpet doing her workout videos in front of the TV. I also spent hours ploughing up and down the pool at the local leisure centre and honing...

I phoned the police and the bike was seized, but eBay and my bank won’t help over reimbursementI bought a used electric cargo bike on eBay for £3,300 but, when it arrived, I discovered a cut in the frame. I put the frame number into the national BikeRegister database, which confirmed it had been stolen.The seller did not reply when I contacted them,...

She says I think about sex all the time – but her libido has fallen since our third child and I feel shame at being rejected• Sign up for Well Actually, a free weekly newsletter about health and wellnessMy wife and I have been married for nearly 10 years. We have three children and love each other dearly. We are a good team 99% of the time, but we regularly...

It did not remind me my contract had ended, or tell me about the best dealsI’ve been a Sky TV customer for more than 20 years but fear I may have overpaid by thousands of pounds because I’ve been out of contract since 2005.I recently discovered that, under Ofcom rules, your provider must remind you that your contract is ending, or has ended, and tell...

UK demand growing for beverages made from fungi, but experts dismiss innovations as ‘health products you don’t need’Sipping mushroom coffee sounds like a weird camping trip anecdote but more Britons are embracing this alternative morning pick-me-up as “mushroom mania” sweeps the high street.With the food industry eager to cash in on demand for “functional...