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An everlasting lightbulb brighter than the Dog Star was installed in the street lamp outside my house one morning as…
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Not long after he took on a smallholding for his cobs, the builder boyfriend found a couple walking through his…
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Never mind Clap for Carers, I’m trying to start a new weekly morale booster called Scream If You’re Going Round…
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Our battle with the EU has given me an insight into the parking disputes outside my house. Or is it…
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Bring back the men having sex in the undergrowth. This was the thought that occurred to me and my friend…
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If the novelty of going for a walk doesn’t wear thin for the marauding masses soon, I am going to…
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Now that our social lives are a Venn diagram that only mathematicians can understand I am officially becoming a recluse.…
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Pretty Man was a plump white pony in the forefront of a sad picture. The photograph showed the seizure by…
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The council has told me that what I saw was an ‘alleged bonfire’. When I described flames towering into the…
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Panic at the country feed store. Panic in the horse and pony aisle. I wonder to myself: could life ever…
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The cyclist pulled into our gateway, got off his bike and grabbed hold of the electric fencing. Installing game cameras,…
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As I scoffed down a fabulous supper in a candlelit room full of ecstatic diners, it struck me that this…
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The girl in the posh soap shop put her right arm out, palm flat in my face, and shouted: ‘Stand…
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‘I can’t put it off any longer. She’s dying and I don’t think I can ignore the inevitable. We’ve got…
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‘Please be aware there is now a Covid surcharge,’ I told the builder boyfriend one morning, as we discussed the…
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The pile of fly-tipping was dumped in the night as usual, right against the five bar gate. I arrived to…
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The Volkswagen Passat was parked next to my field gate, sticking out into the lane, blocking larger vehicles from getting…
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Every time I get on a horse I have to face the likelihood that a dog, or pack of dogs,…
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A man without a mask appeared to be dying of Covid, or something quite like it, on the London to…
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Always the National Trust sticker. It feels like every time a car parks across the gateway to my horses’ field…
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After driving around the hospital grounds in concentric circles until I was surely down a wormhole, I found the scanning…
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‘Hallo! You was callin’ us about appoint…MENT!’ said the lady at the scanning unit of my local hospital in broken…
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We have beans, peas, potatoes, tomatoes, butternut squash, plums and strawberries growing in our garden. I dug up and replanted…
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The whole of Surrey and south-west London seem to have gone abroad on holiday so I’ve got my sanity back.…
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From my seat in the greasy spoon café I looked out on a typical English row of shops on a…
