{"id":39277,"date":"2025-12-27T12:37:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T12:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=39277"},"modified":"2025-12-27T12:37:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T12:37:19","slug":"clare-bailey-mosley-what-single-thing-would-improve-the-quality-of-my-life-michael-life-and-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=39277","title":{"rendered":"Clare Bailey Mosley: \u2018What single thing would improve the quality of my life? Michael\u2019 | Life and style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><span style=\"color:var(--drop-cap);font-weight:700\" class=\"dcr-15rw6c2\">B<\/span>orn in Singapore, Clare Bailey Mosley, 64, studied at the Royal\u00a0Free Medical School where she met Michael Mosley: they married in 1987. She worked as a GP until she retired in 2022. She wrote the companion recipe books to her husband\u2019s The 8-Week Blood Sugar Diet, The Clever Guts Diet and The Fast 800. Since his death in\u00a02024, she has established the Michael Mosley Memorial Research Fund; she has also published a parenting guide called Eating Together and The Fast 800 Favourites; there is\u00a0also The Fast 800 online weight loss\u00a0support programme. She lives\u00a0in Buckinghamshire and has\u00a0four\u00a0children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><strong>What is your earliest memory?<\/strong><br \/>Minesweeping at a cocktail party when I was about three. I got up in the\u00a0night and my parents found me drunk in the morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><strong>What is the trait you most deplore\u00a0in\u00a0yourself?<\/strong><br \/>Time blindness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><strong>What is the trait you most deplore\u00a0in\u00a0others?<\/strong><br \/>Arrogance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><strong>Aside from a property, what\u2019s the most expensive thing you\u2019ve <\/strong><strong>bought?<\/strong><br \/>A garden chair from the Chelsea flower\u00a0show. It was almost the price of\u00a0a small crappy car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><strong>What is your most treasured possession?<\/strong><br \/>My puppy. He\u2019s called Biscuit and he\u2019s\u00a0a very bouncy cavapoo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><strong>Describe yourself in three words<\/strong><br \/>Optimistic, nurturing, enquiring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><strong>What is your most unappealing habit?<\/strong><br \/>I sleepwalk. I wander around aimlessly and then get back into bed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><strong>What do you most dislike about your\u00a0appearance?<\/strong><br \/>My nose could be neater.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><strong>What scares you about getting older?<\/strong><br \/>Loneliness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><strong>Which book are you ashamed not\u00a0to\u00a0have read?<\/strong><br \/>War and Peace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><strong>What did you want to be when you\u00a0were growing up?<\/strong><br \/>A fireman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><strong>What or who is the greatest love\u00a0of\u00a0your life?<\/strong><br \/>Michael.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><strong>What does love feel like?<\/strong><br \/>Connection, warmth, somebody you can trust and, quite happily, say\u00a0nothing to.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><strong>If you could edit your past, what\u00a0would you change?<\/strong><br \/>I wouldn\u2019t because everything is connected with everything else.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><strong>When\u2019s the last time you changed your mind about something significant?<\/strong><br \/>Six months ago, I decided to move house. I got a skip, cleared everything out and then thought: \u201cWhy am I\u00a0doing\u00a0this?\u201d So I remained, and I\u2019m\u00a0glad I did.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><strong>What would you like to leave\u00a0your\u00a0children?<\/strong><br \/>That they were loved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><strong>What single thing would improve the\u00a0quality of your life?<\/strong><br \/>Michael.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><strong>What do you consider your greatest\u00a0achievement?<\/strong><br \/>My children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><strong>Would you rather have more sex,\u00a0money or fame?<\/strong><br \/>Money.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><strong>How would you like to be remembered?<\/strong><br \/>To have made people healthier and\u00a0happier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><strong>What is the most important lesson life\u00a0has taught you?<\/strong><br \/>To be inquisitive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><strong>Tell us a joke<\/strong><br \/>Somebody told this to me when I\u00a0was\u00a0five. When is a jar not a jar? When\u00a0it\u2019s ajar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born in Singapore, Clare Bailey Mosley, 64, studied at the Royal\u00a0Free Medical School where she met Michael Mosley: they married in 1987. She worked as a GP until she retired in 2022. She wrote the companion recipe books to her husband\u2019s The 8-Week Blood Sugar Diet, The Clever Guts Diet and The Fast 800. 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