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I need to stop dwelling on everything I get wrong, from sending my ball into the drink to squeezing the wrong bottom
Whether you’re into sport or not, there’s wisdom to be mined from it. Once you’ve p…
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Just one antisocial fellow traveller can ruin a journey. Is it a giant two-fingered gesture to the rest of the world?
Some time in the early years of the last decade, a friend and I travelled by train…
30 days ago
There I was, lying in bed and worrying I’d lost a basic life skill. Can you blame me for putting it to the test?
When I was in the first year at middle school, in Miss Hale’s class, my parents returne…
31 days ago
Why is the moral panic only ever about younger generations? It’s time we heard what confuses or worries them about us
Every generation looks at the next generation, and the one after that, with baffle…
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I’m not saying everything was better in the good old days – but a lot of things really don’t need the latest bells and whistles
I was once trying to get a television idea commissioned about a subject …
65 days ago
It’s chaos as small jobs become big jobs, tools disappear and distractions lead to furious frustration. Then you spot spring’s first flower ...
There’s no such thing as gardener’s block, I once read. …
72 days ago
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A friend sent me the image by surprise and I felt a lot of things very strongly: love, upset, amusement, pleasure and anger
An old friend sent me a photo that caused me to stop whatever I was doing. I…
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Hour after hour of washing, trimming and blow-drying unwilling pups is not my idea of fun – or my dog’s
Lots of people like the idea of grooming dogs for a living. Some survey sought to identify the …
The only thing worse than spending a fortune on a coat you don’t really need is spending a fortune on a coat you don’t really need, then damaging it, then discovering that no one wants to fix it
What …
To think, until nearly the end of the last century, everyone had to write like this
I have come away without a laptop so, for the first time in 35 years, I have been forced to write something using pe…