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A slacker’s guide to Middlemarch

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The first of the list and I’m nearly there – only 25 of 95 chapters remaining. I’m enjoying having it read to me by Juliet Stevenson. There is no doubt that the skills of an actor make the potentially confusing dialogue easier to digest. This more than makes up for the difficulty in looking up […]

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 […]