#Men's sheds

Shared history keeps old school friendships going long after you’ve stopped sharing much else. How to tell a rough patch from a friendship that’s run its course, and what to do next.

The kids have gone, work matters less and the streaming apps keep multiplying. A blunt look at how British men past 50 can avoid drifting and build a life worth getting up for.

Slowing down ageing is mostly about muscle, movement, sleep, your hearing and your friends. Here’s how to keep body and mind in shape without becoming the bloke who moans about everything.

Most men over 50 have plenty of contacts and very few real friends. Here is how to build new friendships in midlife without it feeling like speed-dating.

Middle-aged British men rarely fall out with their friends. They just stop ringing them. Here’s why male friendships fade after 45, and how a pint, a shed or an allotment can bring them back.