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Nell Frizzell

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Nothing beats a good chat – so long as you can walk away when things get awkward

While on my way to look at an iguanodon skeleton the other day, at the Museum of Natural History in Oxford, I bumped into three people I knew. Each...

08.04.2024 6

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There are many ways to deal with grief. But few as full-on as this …

Most of us in Britain don’t know quite what to do with grief. You don’t hear funerals announced on local radio, as I did in the west of Ireland,...

07.04.2024 40

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Sweaty after a bike ride? Hair wrecked by the rain? You need one of my adult changing stations

Please excuse the state of my leggings, but I have an idea. What all major cities need – other than better social housing, affordable childcare,...

14.03.2024 50

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Sweating with fear, I waited to hear the doctor’s verdict. Then the radio started playing Call Me Maybe …

It’s quite something to be sitting on a lime-green, wipe-clean chair, your tongue pinned to the roof of your mouth by fear, strangers in scrubs...

13.03.2024 3

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How long should it take to answer a Whatsapp? About a fortnight

Few things bring me greater joy than someone taking two weeks to reply to a WhatsApp message. I mean it. This week, my friend and former teacher...

04.03.2024 30

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I’ve done some shameful things to sell my books. But there’s a line even I can’t cross

Some days I would rather get my bikini line waxed in the window of Dunelm than walk into another bookshop. Not that bookshops aren’t wonderful...

03.03.2024 30

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The Guardian view on the Tory right and Trump: a moral abyss and an electoral dead end

The Tory party is carrying out a postmortem on Rishi Sunak’s leadership before it has expired. It is a gruesome spectacle. Simon Clarke, a former...

25.01.2024 7

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I see blossom in January – and feel a sickening swell of solastalgia

There is a particular queasy disquiet that comes from looking at blossom in January. Or daffodils just weeks after Christmas. At seeing catkins...

25.01.2024 6

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Guardian Opinion cartoon Ben Jennings on Donald Trump’s progress along the Republican nomination trail – cartoon

25.01.2024 8

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How can I possibly fill in my own tax return? I know nothing about money

What I understand about money could be scratched on the edge of a 2p piece. With a stick. As the self-assessment deadline rolls towards me like a...

24.01.2024 7

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What I learned when a ‘once in 100 years’ flood hit my city – 10 years after the last one

My dad lives on a boat. Despite the earrings, tattoos, missing teeth and bare feet, he is not a pirate – just a man with an expensive divorce and a...

17.01.2024 20

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What have I gained by learning to sew? Great clothes - and a clear conscience

Being able to sew is radical, liberating and canny, which is why I’ve taught my six-year-old to fix his own socks. This may sound like the...

16.01.2024 3

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We need rituals to help ease the pain of unwanted periods

I am currently having my 10th unwanted period in a row. There are all sorts of reasons a period might be unwanted: you are on a long train journey;...

04.12.2023 9

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My mum was so desperate for medical care that she went private. Then came the bill ...

What price would you put on a wee? After three months of having such a debilitating urinary infection that she couldn’t leave the house, my...

03.12.2023 40

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'Urban foraging' has let me swap supermarket produce for free fruit from A-roads and parks

This autumn, I have taken to a life of larceny. I have started cycling around Oxford with a stepladder in my trailer and litter picker in my front...

25.09.2023 3

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