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Kerry HudsonThe Guardian |
I can remember the exact moment the travel bug bit me. It was the summer of 1993 and it seemed everyone from school was off on a week’s package...
"ANTALYA? The place where people go for veneers and hair plugs? You know you can get kebabs in Istanbul?" My husband, not for the first time, is...
At this year's Oscars, amid a sea of Barbie feminism dressed in bubblegum pink and Cillian Murphy's architectural bone structure, the two films I was...
Does anyone really want to hear about someone else's illness? Having been sick for two years now, I can actually time to the second concerned...
This month we’re desperately in need of good news stories, with February being the bleakest month, freezing and endless with spring, let alone...
Twelve years ago I walked into the extremely fancy lobby of Kings Cross St Pancras Hotel, a place I’d never been inside, would never have dared to,...
Happy New Year, you filthy animals! Welcome to 2024 and whatever it might hold. Since, in our house, 2023 brought serious illness, four house moves,...
In the words of Shania Twain, ‘Looks Like We Made It’. Whether you love or loathe Christmas, it's behind us and all we have left is a Tupperware...
What’s your family tradition? Perhaps a recipe for Christmas pudding, handed down through generations and festively set on fire, a blue and white...
Twas the month before Christmas and all through the Department Store the bustle was horrendous. The elves claimed cystitis for extra toilet breaks and...
My son's visit to Santa. Our bright pink Christmas tree, topped with a Barbie who looks like she hit the Baileys a little too hard. A frankly biblical...
Fat. Such a tiny word with so many larger implications. No longer just a descriptor, it is a word loaded with prejudice, judgments and preconceptions....
Perhaps it is just the timing. I’ve just moved our whole family including a toddler, dog, and an understandably furious cat to Sheffield to a...
Let’s get one thing straight: I love drinking. The gentle lift of an icy cold gin and tonic, the steady rise of the rollercoaster as you switch to...
A scented candle that smells like floral cat sick? No, thanks. A gift set of bath bombs that will have you smelling your ‘pits in paranoia for the...
It’s a typical morning. Our home sways gently as my husband goes to turn the gas canisters on and our ancient heating system bubbles up. Our toddler...
How can you possibly talk to your 13-year-old godson, whose mum was born on a Kibbutz in Israel, about Palestine just after taking pictures of him...
The first protest my son attended was a Free Palestine protest in Prague when he was eight months old. We marched up through the Old Town, his buggy...
Have you ever had one of those weekends? You’ve already had a Big Friday Night. Like, BIG. I mean smashed, obliterated, mortal. The night is just...
Coming to a silver screen near you soon, the story of a proud, idiosyncratic Highland community who discover that a dusty doorstop found in a shed is...
This week was my little boy’s third birthday, but it was no usual party. He had a giant pink three, Barbie-themed cake, and cheesy music on the...
Tomorrow is my son's birthday. We made it, three years, right into the heartland of the toddler years. For that reason, no matter how much I assure...
"I consider it one step up from drinking my own pee as a medical treatment, to be honest." "Pardon?" I’m chatting to the taxi driver, a burly...
For years that voice and I were mortal enemies. There it was, the insistent whisper of imposter syndrome, telling me that I’d be ‘found out’,...
Is it 3am or 5am? I can see the light bleeding through curtains anyway. I am exhausted, up and down all night, part anxiety and part necessity to look...
I’ve had insomnia and night terrors for years. During my first night terror, my mum found me standing to attention by the mattress I had pulled off...
A mysterious email landed in my inbox inviting me on a four-day ‘taster cruise’ on what is possibly the world's most luxurious Discovery Yacht. ...
I’m in Locavore in Govanhill, a social enterprise trying to build a more sustainable local food community, famous for their excellent veg boxes....
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I suspect I have found the best medicine for what ails me. The good news is, it’s available on every high street, you don’t need a prescription,...
Like racoons, I like drama, trash and a lot of eye make-up so you can bet my ears pricked up when I read one of the Jonas Brothers and a Hollywood...