Fine lines and facelift pitfalls in the hot pursuit of beauty

Cooling off in a Beijing canal on the hottest day in more than 60 years. Photograph: Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images The marmalade cat that comes to our building for his lunch every day was sprawled on the tiled floor inside the doorway, his tail facing outwards and his paws pointing towards the staircase. The gentlest footstep is usually enough to send him running but as I approached he raised himself slowly onto his haunches, stretched and turned around to slope out the door. It was 41 degrees outside on the hottest June day Beijing has seen in more than…