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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…
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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…
