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The best mother’s day gift?

Time with my darling daughter. Teenagers are God’s punishment for having sex in the first place. Living with a teenage daughter is like living with the Taliban; mothers aren’t allowed to dance, sing, flirt, laugh or wear short skirts. When my daughter was 13, I was sashaying toward the front door in high heels when […]

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Abuse is deterring women from Political careers. Here’s how not to give a f*ck.

“*** you, you *** f-ing *** piece of ***!!!! ” Welcome to the wonderful world of politics. Poke your head above the parapet in public life and you’re rewarded with the verbal equivalent of rotten tomatoes flung into your face. But this is especially true if you’re female. New research reveals that girls are being […]

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Is the holiday romance over-rated? Some Valentine’s Day musings, or amusings, hopefully…

Love is such a powerful drug it really should be classified as a Class A addiction. And research shows that the best place to score the love drug is on vacation. According to a recent survey by travel company Kayak, one in five of us finds love on holiday. Is there anything more likely to […]

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Male dieting angst makes women lose our appetite

Women are always watching our weight – I can see it now, actually, right out there in front of me. So anxious are we about said muffin top, thunder thighs, cankles and ‘thigh gap’ that we won’t even cook with thick-bottomed saucepans. We eschew carbs with the same fervour we’d avoid a plutonium-riddled Russian spy. […]

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What a shame that shame is on the wane

I was on the bus today when a maskless bloke put his muddy feet up on the seat. What I felt like saying was – “You really should grow an extra brain cell, as the one you’ve got must be so lonely up there.” It wasn’t until the thug reeled and glared that I realized […]

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Holidaying with my autistic son in the time of Corona – and hoping to be kidnapped by Pirates!

Stressed? No, I wasn’t stressed… I always floss my ears, run a comb through my teeth and spritz my armpits with hairspray. It wasn’t until the morning I broke an egg on my hand and fried my iPhone that I finally admitted how a year of furlough, social distancing, doomscrolling, quarantining and lockdown had taken […]

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The Trump-Ectomy (Plus a shameless book plug)

So, are you ready to cancel your subscription to 2021? Have you tried the two week free trial and find that you’re not satisfied in any way, shape or form? Join the club. As if COVID hasn’t been hideous enough, we then had the Trump-inspired insurrection. After the initial horror of the attempted coup, as […]

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Discovering my inner viking with the great (though rather on the little side) dane, Sandi Toksvig

As I was sliding down a klit in my sitting suit, there was one thought on my mind – Danes really are Great. A ‘klit’, by the way, is a sand dune and a ‘sitting suit’ is a warm and toasty onesy which allows you to sit outside enjoying ‘hygge’ with your pals. Hygge of […]

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Time for a new genre for women of a certain age…

Many wanna-be-authors will be penning a new year’s resolution to finally finish that novel. The most important decision writers on their Literary ‘L’ plates must make is what genre tickles their creative fancy. Comedy is my preferred category because if you can disarm with charm, you’re more likely to get your message across. (Feminism, in […]

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New Year’s Resolutions 2021

After a nerve-wracking year, at least there’s one thing we don’t have to stress about –new year’s resolutions. Obviously, we can just use last year’s. Although, having consulted that dusty list, all my resolutions for 2020 seem so abstemious – drink less alcohol; give up chocolate; do more exercise; get more sleep… After a year […]

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