Real life
Real life
The mechanic hooked the Volvo up to his special laptop. He had kindly offered to come to me in order…
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‘Can I go and play with Twiggy?’ If dogs could talk, this is what my spaniel Cydney would be saying…
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The Volvo has turned into a monster. It always did have a mind of its own. Fellow owners warned me…
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All the way around a cross country course I went, then I got back, tied the horse up at a…
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This horse-rearing business is not for the faint-hearted. I don’t know what I was thinking when I bought an eight-month-old…
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‘Question 2. In which year did the Berlin Wall come down?’ shouted the quizmaster. And then he repeated this with…
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My gay best friend is cheating on me with another woman. I saw him with her the other day and…
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A letter arrives from David Cameron, asking me to vote by post in the European elections. Presumably he means vote…
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The look on her face said it all. I can always tell my friend Denise is upset about something when…
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‘Quick, let’s slip one in the menu,’ said the builder, taking a leaflet from my handbag after we had paid…
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‘Please, I beg of you, take me to see André,’ was my mother’s heartfelt plea. And so it was that…
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Seeing a poodle on the London Underground wearing a red vest with the words ‘Diabetes Medical Dog’ has given me…
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Drip, drip, drip. The noise of my downstairs London conversion flat, where the plumbing was fitted by turn-of-the-century sadists who…
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Don’t do it. Do not, whatever you do, even think about doing it. I was happy not doing it. And…
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‘How often do you de-frag this?’ said the Good Geek in the phone shop. I had gone in finally to…
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‘Hello, I’d like my money back, please,’ I said to the nice lady on the other end of the line.…
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Just the three resolutions for me. I am keeping it simple. Number one: no more boyfriends. The definition of insanity…
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A very cross letter arrives from someone who wants to tell me I’m a ‘silly woman’. ‘You are a silly…
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Emmylou Harris and the McGarrigle sisters wrote a song called ‘All I left Behind’. My version is called ‘All They…
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Everything is a journey now, especially if it involves failure. The X Factor rejects, people having disasters as they build…
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The builder boyfriend and I have had a terrible row. In the heat of the moment, I said something truly…
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‘Do you know…?’ said the Tory MP I was sitting next to, as he tried to introduce me to the…
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Like the heroine in Stephen King’s The Tommyknockers, I stood in front of it with my mouth open in awe.…
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Blind panic grips me at the thought that all over Britain there are people sitting in cosy home offices operating…
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Speeding down the farm track from my little country retreat, I came across the gamekeeper in his Defender. I wound…
