Timewasters Inc
Apparently Shakespeare banged out Macbeth, King Lear and Anthony and Cleopatra during a bubonic plague lockdown. Well bully for him. Since I self-isolated, I’ve managed a few cursory paragraphs of the...
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Editorial - Tina Gaudoin
The Menopause, Cardigans And Me
For most women three things are certain: Taxes, death, and the menopause. At the moment I know which one I would give almost anything to avoid. When I was young and foolish (I’m s...
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Why Wild Swimming Is Worth Your Consideration
There comes a time in every woman’s life where she needs to take her clothes off and get into the water. I’m not talking about taking a bath, I’m talking about the invigor...
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Why Gardening Might Just Save You, Mentally and Physically
Gardens frequently make me cry – with joy, in sorrow and often, on my own patch, with utter frustration at my shortcomings (horticulturally related or not). It’s a rare thing though t...
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The Joy Of Dog
Readers the title of this piece, which is indeed a play on that joyless 1970’s sex book, is not in any way to suggest that there’s anything sexual by way of your (or fo...
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What It’s Like Living With An Autoimmune Disease
‘The trouble with us’, says a friend who used to edit a Sunday newspaper and is now retraining as a chef, ‘is that we used to be somebody’. Did we? Or perhaps I should say...
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