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I’ll be glad to see the backs of those two slackers Tian Tian and Yang Guang who are returning to China after a 10-year residency at Edinburgh Zoo....
One advantage of being mum to a wily schoolkid is that I know a bribe when I see one. So when Jeremy Hunt says: “I’m going to cut National...
It’s been one dramatic rescue after another. First, the world’s loneliest sheep was winched up a cliff after spending years alone on a rocky...
I’ll have to stop going to the big Tesco. Any supermarket that requires binoculars and a stepladder to see the cereal aisle is too much to take on...
Is it weird that I spent most of my friend’s Halloween party interrogating an air hostess between the buffet table and the pop-up bar? She didn’t...
You know how it is, one minute you’re restoring a castle in Sutherland and the next you’re being mistaken for an erotic fiction writer in North...
Being married to an Irish poet has its joys as well as its challenges. I’m sure Yeats’s missus said at some point: “I couldn’t give a...
I’ve been meaning to start watching that show Stranger Things but then I saw some of the Conservative Party Conference and figured it’s probably...
There has been an emphasis on very old things in recent days, with the Skye ferry crossing, whisky from the 1800s and Joe Biden all making the...
I went swimming, I went to the gym, I went on several long walks – and I’ve still been put to shame by a cocker spaniel. I thought my own daft dog...
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I might give up television and just start watching a roundabout in Elgin. I can’t face more adverts for life insurance or collectible gold coins and...
I wouldn’t want to be an air traffic controller’s manicurist. Can you imagine what state their nails must be in? I chewed mine down to nothing on...
Having failed spectacularly to secure Taylor Swift tickets for my tweenage Swiftie I know what it’s like to get into someone’s bad books. In my...
A former editor of mine, Alan Cochrane or “Cockers” to his pals, used to tell funny stories about the hot metal days of newspapers when lines of...
Asylum-seekers have been doing reviews of the Bibby Stockholm barge in Dorset but they probably won’t appear on TripAdvisor. There isn’t a section...
Could Ricky Gervais spark a global financial crisis? Spoiler alert, probably not, but let’s just run with it anyway because for the second week in a...
It’s hard to shed a tear for someone who is upset because a posh bank has closed their account and it’s even harder when that person is Nigel...
It’s hard to shed a tear for someone who is upset because a posh bank has closed their account and it’s even harder when that person is Nigel...
If I was ever in a situation where the victim gets to confront their attacker I’d be sitting opposite a seagull. Two seagulls in fact, one that...
Evil benches. It’s a thing. An architectural thing to be exact and you’ll likely have encountered them without knowing their nickname, at...
A lorry-load of 6ft bunnies just went past the window and that almost never happens. I live in a strange town, it’s an odd mixture of ordinary and...
Boris Johnson has lost his work pass. Big wow, I do that all the time. Mind you, mine’s usually in the car and not gone forever as a result of a...
The last time I heard the words “sticky” and “inflation” in the same sentence was after I hired a bouncy castle and a candy-floss station for...
You wait ages for an existential crisis and then three come along at once. Nukes and climate change were the biggies until Tuesday when it was...