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Since telling the shoot we won’t let them use the land we rent, we have been beset by a series…
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‘Oh, I do so love to see all the lovely pheasants running around the place,’ said the lady walking the…
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The woman sat alone and stony-faced in the passenger seat of the car as it blocked the road. She was…
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Exciting news from my father’s cousin in Canada. ‘You asked about our grandfather, there is much to tell,’ he writes.…
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While we were looking forward to Freedom Day, the National Health Service was busy planning something extra special to coincide…
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A saloon car pulled up opposite our fields and a man sat there looking at the horses with a bewildered…
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‘You’ll come back when you’re in enough pain,’ said the osteopath as I walked out of his door. That was…
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‘We’re closed for lunch,’ said the farmer, sitting behind the counter of his farm shop with a scowl on his…
Salt and vinegar crisps
Henry Walker might never have got into the crisp business were it not for the fact that his Leicester butcher’s…
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More threatening letters from the NHS demanding I let them jab me up with two Covid vaccinations. Or as the…
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An angry text exchange between me and a former Tory councillor after she lost her seat has got me thinking.…
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‘You’re meant to be having your dental appointment now!’ barked the receptionist, bringing my lie-in to an abrupt end. Very…
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Being told by the Tories not to put a local election poster in my window because it will only remind…
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Trying to get hold of HRT in the time of Covid is like trying to score crack. Possibly, scoring crack…
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When the time came for the nurse to ring me to take my blood pressure, the phone simply didn’t ring.…
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After refusing to issue my HRT without a blood pressure test, the GP surgery rang to offer me an appointment.…
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Watching a woman driving a dog past my house like a carthorse is just another ‘new normal’ of lockdown. This…
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The rope riders came down the driveway slowly, their horses veering this way and that, side to side, forwards a…
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‘Welcome to Victims First. Please leave your name and number and we will return your call. Beeeeeeeeeeeep!’ I had rung…
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‘Have you had your jab, Margery?’ said one Surrey lady to another in the queue for take-away coffee at the…
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‘We’re sorry your experience with us has not been a good one,’ said the press officer at Surrey Police. ‘You…
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‘Anything you say may be given in evidence. Do you have anything to say?’ I looked at the baby-faced police…
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The street light as bright as the Dog Star was fitted with a shield, and I was assigned my own…
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Eventually, I got so bored I ended up at Burger King. For no other reason than to amuse myself one…
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The kitchen tap began dripping as if it knew perfectly well that this would land me in a predicament whereby…
