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A slacker’s guide to classic novels

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OK. You know those lists that have all the books you should have read? The ones, in my case, that I feel quite smug about To Kill A Mockingbird and Brave New World, but pretty inadequate about almost everything else. Those. My powers of bluster and google had in the most part got me through. […]

What’s on my mind this week…

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It’s only just December and already I’m in the grip of the seasonal sweat. It’s what happens when your already busy life gets an addition clutch of festive events for every person you live with and, strangely, it’s down to you to make them all happen. Ho ho ho hum. Add to that that everyone […]

Advice for myself as a first-time buyer

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While in some respects, I’d sell a kidney (and my children) to be the age I was when I bought my first home, the thought of having to get on the property ladder from scratch in the current climate would not thrill me. I was 18 when I got the keys for my first home. […]

It’s not just men who are sexist

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Get the picture? Taking the mickey out of men just because they are men is easy, it’s (a bit) funny, satisfying and, it’s very wrong. You know the kind of thing – jokes that make blokes out to be overgrown children incapable of anything but watching sport and farting. And that set women apart as […]

Why’s it all going wrong at once?

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The Panther and I have decided that we must never go to bed again on the night of an important vote. The night before last it went like this: “Let’s hope it’s not like the EU referendum night and we wake up to something horrible.” “Fingers crossed.” So, clearly, in order to avoid it happening […]