Melissa Kite

Melissa Kite writes The Spectator's Real life column.

Real life

13 March 2021 9:00 am

‘Have you had your jab, Margery?’ said one Surrey lady to another in the queue for take-away coffee at the…

Real life

6 March 2021 9:00 am

‘We’re sorry your experience with us has not been a good one,’ said the press officer at Surrey Police. ‘You…

Real life

27 February 2021 9:00 am

‘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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20 February 2021 9:00 am

The street light as bright as the Dog Star was fitted with a shield, and I was assigned my own…

Real life

13 February 2021 9:00 am

Eventually, I got so bored I ended up at Burger King. For no other reason than to amuse myself one…

Real life

6 February 2021 9:00 am

The kitchen tap began dripping as if it knew perfectly well that this would land me in a predicament whereby…

Real life

30 January 2021 9:00 am

An everlasting lightbulb brighter than the Dog Star was installed in the street lamp outside my house one morning as…

Real life

23 January 2021 9:00 am

Not long after he took on a smallholding for his cobs, the builder boyfriend found a couple walking through his…

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16 January 2021 9:00 am

Never mind Clap for Carers, I’m trying to start a new weekly morale booster called Scream If You’re Going Round…

Real life

9 January 2021 9:00 am

Our battle with the EU has given me an insight into the parking disputes outside my house. Or is it…

Real life

19 December 2020 9:00 am

Bring back the men having sex in the undergrowth. This was the thought that occurred to me and my friend…

Real life

12 December 2020 9:00 am

If the novelty of going for a walk doesn’t wear thin for the marauding masses soon, I am going to…

Real life

5 December 2020 9:00 am

Now that our social lives are a Venn diagram that only mathematicians can understand I am officially becoming a recluse.…

Real life

28 November 2020 9:00 am

Pretty Man was a plump white pony in the forefront of a sad picture. The photograph showed the seizure by…

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21 November 2020 9:00 am

The council has told me that what I saw was an ‘alleged bonfire’. When I described flames towering into the…

Real life

14 November 2020 9:00 am

Panic at the country feed store. Panic in the horse and pony aisle. I wonder to myself: could life ever…

Real life

7 November 2020 9:00 am

The cyclist pulled into our gateway, got off his bike and grabbed hold of the electric fencing. Installing game cameras,…

Real life

31 October 2020 9:00 am

As I scoffed down a fabulous supper in a candlelit room full of ecstatic diners, it struck me that this…

Real life

24 October 2020 9:00 am

The girl in the posh soap shop put her right arm out, palm flat in my face, and shouted: ‘Stand…

Real life

17 October 2020 9:00 am

‘I can’t put it off any longer. She’s dying and I don’t think I can ignore the inevitable. We’ve got…

Real life

10 October 2020 9:00 am

‘Please be aware there is now a Covid surcharge,’ I told the builder boyfriend one morning, as we discussed the…

Real life

3 October 2020 9:00 am

The pile of fly-tipping was dumped in the night as usual, right against the five bar gate. I arrived to…

Real life

26 September 2020 9:00 am

The Volkswagen Passat was parked next to my field gate, sticking out into the lane, blocking larger vehicles from getting…

Real life

19 September 2020 9:00 am

Every time I get on a horse I have to face the likelihood that a dog, or pack of dogs,…

Real life

12 September 2020 9:00 am

A man without a mask appeared to be dying of Covid, or something quite like it, on the London to…