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Women’s body hair shouldn’t be controversial. It’s time to stop policing our physical choices

19.12.2024 4

The Guardian

Nova Weetman

We all have life stories, we just need to learn how to tell them

As a children’s author, I often visit schools for one-off writing workshops or small residencies but rarely do I have the opportunity to work with...

12.11.2024 8

The Guardian

Nova Weetman

The first broad beans of spring take me back to my childhood garden – and my mum

As a child, I spent most days outside with my hands in the dirt. When I wasn’t reading, I was gardening, which seems incongruous now because I live...

29.10.2024 80

The Guardian

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Despite not involving eating pickles, pickleball proved a joyful surprise

As a child, it seemed like everyone in my world played tennis. I grew up in a small outer suburb where sport had currency and tennis was at the heart...

11.07.2024 80

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After our first cold water swim our teeth chatter and hands ache – and I imagine the spirit of Mum not far away

When my mum died in 2012, I found a box of her old life-saving medals that she’d been awarded as a teenager. She grew up in public housing in...

03.07.2024 70

The Guardian

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I lie to my kids and they lie to me. Some secrets need keeping

When my son was nearing the end of primary school, he admitted that he’d known for many years that Santa was, in fact, just his parents sneaking...

02.07.2024 70

WA Today

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I lie to my kids and they lie to me. Some secrets need keeping

When my son was nearing the end of primary school, he admitted that he’d known for many years that Santa was, in fact, just his parents sneaking...

02.07.2024 80

The Sydney Morning Herald

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I lie to my kids and they lie to me. Some secrets need keeping

When my son was nearing the end of primary school, he admitted that he’d known for many years that Santa was, in fact, just his parents sneaking...

02.07.2024 100

The Age

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I lie to my kids and they lie to me. Some secrets need keeping

When my son was nearing the end of primary school, he admitted that he’d known for many years that Santa was, in fact, just his parents sneaking...

02.07.2024 70

Brisbane Times

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Guardian Opinion cartoon Martin Rowson on John Swinney formally entering the SNP leadership contest – cartoon

03.05.2024 100

The Guardian

Nova Weetman

We know there are many benefits to writing by hand – in a digital world we risk losing them

Recently, I found a letter my mum had written me years ago when she was on holidays in Vietnam. The paper is thin and ratty on the edges, but the...

02.05.2024 70

The Guardian

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Being back in the beach house that witnessed much of my 20s feels strange and wondrous – like a sort of time travel

Many years ago, a friend from university invited some of us to his mum’s beach house at Walkerville South. His mum had bought the house super cheap...

22.04.2024 80

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Since my husband’s death, the intimacy of apartment living has brought more than just shared walls

Not long after my mum died, I talked to a friend’s mother about grief, and I compared what I was feeling to the loss she was experiencing after her...

30.03.2024 80

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I was sweating before I even opened my mouth: could I overcome my fear of public speaking?

When I was younger I was so terrified of public speaking that I went out of my way to avoid it. If I was forced to address a crowd, I didn’t sleep...

13.03.2024 80

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The longer we rented, the longer we wanted to stay – but being a renter does not guarantee you choice

Throughout my 20s I never thought about owning property, because I was too busy enjoying living with friends in a string of share houses. Some of the...

17.02.2024 70

The Guardian

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A kitten was a perfect Covid distraction but I got more than I bargained for

After years of indoctrination from my native-animal loving parents, I arrived at adulthood wary of domestic pets. We didn’t have any when I was...

05.02.2024 70

The Guardian

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How a spontaneous overseas trip made me see my son in a whole new light

When my daughter went overseas on her gap-year adventure, my son and I found ourselves alone at home with the cat. Except for the odd Sunday morning...

11.01.2024 90

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I used to hunt for the perfect discarded magazine at my gran’s as a child – and the joy of rescuing rubbish has never left me

When I was a child, the highlight of visiting my grandmother was being allowed to take her rubbish to the communal refuse room. The room had a chute...

05.01.2024 90

The Guardian

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Summer essentials The simple pleasures of piecing a summer holiday together at home

As a kid our long summer holidays were mostly spent at the Croydon pool, with plastic containers of white-bread sandwiches, wedges of watermelon, and...

25.12.2023 70

The Guardian

Nova Weetman

The punk, pant-less fairy perched on top of the pine tree is our link to Christmases past

One year when I was very little, my mum hand-sewed a beaded cream dress with a taffeta skirt for a plastic doll I owned, to turn her from my toy into...

15.12.2023 70

The Guardian

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