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17 December 2022 9:00 am

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10 December 2022 9:00 am

‘Then I got taken hostage in Iran,’ said the lady sitting next to me in the hairdresser’s as she was…

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3 December 2022 9:00 am

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26 November 2022 9:00 am

‘Notice from your vets’ said the email subject. I clicked and there was a letter telling me that my vet…

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19 November 2022 9:00 am

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12 November 2022 9:00 am

With only five to ten more years to work out how to log in to my pension plan I need…

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5 November 2022 9:00 am

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29 October 2022 9:00 am

By the time I got through to someone at British Gas to complain about them holding £491 of my money…

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22 October 2022 9:00 am

‘Excuse me, I’m looking for something to catch a mouse that won’t cause it any distress,’ said the young chap…

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15 October 2022 9:00 am

‘I’d like my money back please’ was what I was waiting to tell British Gas, if they ever stopped the…

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8 October 2022 9:00 am

A cleverly worded email has arrived from British Gas to explain why, despite the Prime Minister’s announcement, my gas and…

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1 October 2022 9:00 am

The support group groupies have issued another ban. They have attempted to slap an exclusion order on another long-standing member,…

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24 September 2022 9:00 am

The cyclist was on the wrong side of the road coming towards me head-on. It was a winding country lane…

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17 September 2022 9:00 am

A lot has been going wrong lately in the support group I’ve been attending for more than 20 years. I…

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10 September 2022 9:00 am

The ladies in the bank now wear badges telling you to Be Kind and not do anything that might upset…

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3 September 2022 9:00 am

My favourite vet came to see Darcy and immediately put his finger on the problem. Dusk was falling when he…

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27 August 2022 9:00 am

‘If you think about it, Frankie Dettori is to blame,’ said the builder boyfriend, because when things are really bad…

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20 August 2022 9:00 am

From the veranda of a small Irish farmhouse, I looked out over the sun-drenched West Cork peninsula. All I could…

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13 August 2022 9:00 am

When my black passport arrived in the post, I decided to take a trip. I’m not a good flier, so…

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6 August 2022 9:00 am

Everything is well and truly burned to a crisp, and we are piling through hundreds of pounds of hay a…

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30 July 2022 9:00 am

‘That will be £7.50 please,’ said the girl in the bakery to the cyclist in black Lycra after he put…

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23 July 2022 9:00 am

My phone buzzed and rang while I was doing the horses until I thought, fine, I’ll call the Defence Secretary…

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16 July 2022 9:00 am

As he grouted the last tile, five years after the bathroom was finished, I knew the game was up. ‘I…

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9 July 2022 9:00 am

The British Gas engineers arrived in convoy, and the dust from their tyres flew into the air as they came…

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2 July 2022 9:00 am

‘Your service contract has been completed,’ said someone or something from British Gas, in the chat box on its website.…